Word: bortezomib
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...patient was being successfully treated with a bortezomib-based therapy, a drug marketed as Velcade by the Cambridge-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Students said that during the clinic discussion, Richardson suggested bortezomib can now be used as a first-line treatment—meaning that physicians can prescribe use of the drug at diagnosis, rather than only as a second or third-line therapy when the disease has recurred...
...Richardson added, bortezomib was in fact approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this June as a first-line treatment for myeloma...
...Richardson were to give the same presentation on bortezomib today, he would be required to disclose his relationship with Millennium, though he said he would likely do this either on the syllabus or on the course Web site...