Exelixis, Inc. Announces Commercial Availability of COMETRIQ for the Treatment of Patients
January 25, 2013 at 05:01 pm EST
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On January 24, 2013, Exelixis, Inc. announced the commercial availability of COMETRIQ (cabozantinib) for the treatment of patients with progressive, metastatic medullary thyroid cancer in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved COMETRIQ on November 29, 2012. COMETRIQ is being distributed exclusively through Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy in the United States.
Exelixis, Inc. is an oncology company. The Company is engaged in developing medicines and combination regimens at the forefront of cancer care. It has produced four marketed pharmaceutical products, two of which are formulations of its flagship molecule, cabozantinib. Cabozantinib is an inhibitor of multiple tyrosine kinases, including MET, AXL, VEGF receptors and RET and has been also approved as CABOMETYX tablets for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), for previously treated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and for previously treated, radioactive iodine (RAI)-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), and as COMETRIQ capsules for progressive, metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). The Company's other two products are COTELLIC, an inhibitor of MEK approved as part of multiple combination regimens to treat specific forms of advanced melanoma and MINNEBRO an oral, non-steroidal, selective blocker of the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) approved the treatment of hypertension.
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