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First-line bevacizumab plus chemotherapy and cetuximab plus chemotherapy provide similar survival benefit for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

2014 ASCO Annual Meeting

Published: 1 Jun 2014

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Dr Alan Venook - UCSF, San Francisco, USA

At a press conference at ASCO 2014, Dr Venook presents the results from a large federally funded phase III study which demonstrate that four common first-line treatment regimens – bevacizumab plus chemotherapy and cetuximab plus chemotherapy – are equally effective for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and no KRAS mutations.

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