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Anyone Hear of a Drug Called Vectibix Being Used For Prostate Cancer

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My brother brought this to my attention. It seems to be used for colon cancer but a fiend of his with stage 4 pancreatic cancer took it and went into complete remission. Anyone hear about this in the area of prostate cancer? It also goes by the name of Panitumumab.

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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl... ?

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EGFR inhibitors haven't shown much efficacy for prostate cancer:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/184...

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/156...

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/194...

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