Head, neck cancer drug in Martha Stewart trial gets federal OK

Friday, March 10 2006 @ 11:03 PM EST

Federal regulators on Wednesday approved Erbitux, the drug at the center of the Martha Stewart stock scandal, as the first new drug to treat head and neck cancer since the 1950s.

The Food and Drug Administration initially approved the drug in 2004 to treat colorectal cancer. The drug may now be used in combination with radiation to treat patients with squamous cell cancer of the head and neck that cannot be removed by surgery.

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