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  • Half were placed on a dual-chemotherapy regimen involving the agents carboplatin and paclitaxel, which together comprise what doctors call "platinum-based doublet chemotherapy."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Genmab shares slumped 20.4% in Copenhagen after the Danish drug maker said that top-line results from a zalutumumab Phase III study in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck who failed standard platinum-based chemotherapy didn't meet its primary endpoint of demonstrating a statistically significant difference in overall survival.

    European Stocks Finish Flat Ishaq Siddiqi 2010

  • Genmab shares slumped 20.4% in Copenhagen after the Danish drug maker said that top-line results from a zalutumumab Phase III study in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck who failed standard platinum-based chemotherapy didn't meet its primary endpoint of demonstrating a statistically significant difference in overall survival.

    European Stocks Finish Flat Ishaq Siddiqi 2010

  • Genmab shares slumped 20.4% in Copenhagen after the Danish drug maker said that top-line results from a zalutumumab Phase III study in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck who failed standard platinum-based chemotherapy didn't meet its primary endpoint of demonstrating a statistically significant difference in overall survival.

    European Stocks Finish Flat Ishaq Siddiqi 2010

  • Last month, Imclone and Bristol Myers said an advanced-stage study showed that adding Erbitux to platinum-based chemotherapy improved survival rates in patients with head and neck cancer.

    FDA Accepts Priority Review for Broader Use of Erbitux 2008

  • Results showed that patients who received Erbitux in addition to platinum-based chemotherapy showed an increase in median survival of 2.7 months compared with patients who received chemotherapy alone.

    FDA Accepts Priority Review for Broader Use of Erbitux 2008

  • The companies are asking the FDA to approve the drug for use in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy.

    FDA Accepts Priority Review for Broader Use of Erbitux 2008

  • ~ New 'biofuel cell' produces electricity from hydrogen in plain air -- "A pioneering “biofuel cell” that produces electricity from ordinary air spiked with small amounts of hydrogen offers significant potential as an inexpensive and renewable alternative to the costly platinum-based fuel cells that have dominated discussion about the “hydrogen economy” of the future, British scientists reported here today."

    Speedlinking 3/27/07 William Harryman 2007

  • American depositary shares of GPC Biotech declined 6.65, or 58%, to 4.79 after a platinum-based cancer drug failed to increase survival rates among a group of prostate-cancer patients in a late-stage trial.

    Carbo Ceramics, Independent Bank Rise 2007

  • They came up or they pioneered platinum-based therapy, platinum-based chemotherapy.

    CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2007 2007

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