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Fentora cancer-related drug deaths confirmed by Cephalon
Posted Sep 14th 2007 9:02AM by Brian White
Filed under: Drug, All Cancers
It's never a good thing when a drugmaker sends letters to doctors saying that a drug they are prescribing has resulted in confirmed deaths.
But that is what Cephalon did this week, as it admitted its cancer drug -- Fentora - has been
linked to some patient deaths. Fentora, used to treat
acute cancer pain, are sometimes prescribed for other pain-related ailments.
Cephalon took issue with the apparent claim that it markets Fentora for uses other than cancer pain, even though some doctors use it "off label" in normal practice.
Tags: cancer, cephalon, fentora
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