Article: Cancer therapeutics development company files IND for metastatic breast cancer.

2004 AUG 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NeoRx Corporation (Nasdaq:NERX) announced that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a phase II clinical study of STR (skeletal targeted radiotherapy) in patients with breast cancer that has metastasized to the bone.

Researchers at Houston-based M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have conducted a small investigator-initiated phase I dose-escalation study of STR in patients with stage IV breast cancer involving osseous (bony) metastases. Six patients were administered STR as a single agent, followed by autologous (self-donor) blood stem cell transplantation. ...

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