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An article tracks the ongoing fight to get Food and Drug Administration approval for thalidomide, the drug that caused thousands of birth defects in the 1960s.
It appears from the different clinical trials with endostatin, thalidomide, the synthetic inhibitors of MMPs, and the different anti-VEGFs that angiostatics, though slightly effective in advanced diseases, are more likely indicated in combination with chemotherapy or radiotherapy and as an adjuvant therapy to treat small tumour masses, in particular local minimal residual disease or micrometastasis.
Analysts credit the new rules to collaboration between the drug's manufacturer (Celgene) and thalidomide victims.
The real news isn't the approval, which was decided upon months ago, but the elaborate new regime of warnings and restrictions, which are designed to prevent a recurrence of the birth defects thalidomide caused in the 1960s.
In the case of thalidomide, high-dose fetal exposure had adverse morphologic effects on rabbits, but not rats; functional effects have only recently been described [81].