Keefe, 72, was one of the first patients dosed with Sutent for GIST in April 2002.
Afinitor will share the kidney cancer market with three other new drugs, including Pfizer's Sutent.
Pfizer says it is monitoring all its trials of Sutent and has not seen any problems.
Last week, Pfizer was denied its patent rights to its cancer drug, Sutent.
Sutent, a targeted cancer pill, could become a big drug if ongoing studies in breast cancer prove effective.
Three years after the first patient got Sutent, the drug has been shown to help patients live longer.
Results are due for Sutent in breast cancer, where Avastin slowed the disease but did not prolong survival.
Rubin remains bullish on recently-approved drugs such as Sutent, used to treat gastrointestinal tumors, and Exubera, developed for diabetes.
Late yesterday, the drug giant recieved approval for Sutent, a new anticancer pill, for both stomach and kidney tumors.
Andy Crabb, who has kidney cancer, has paid out thousands of pounds for Sutent over the past few months.
In kidney cancer, Sutent shrank tumors by 40% in two midstage clinical trials.
That was more than it was forecasting for Sutent, an innovative cancer pill, or Chantix, a first-of-its kind anti-smoking drug.
It shows Sutent shrank tumors by a third or more in 14% of 51 patients who were available for evaluation.
Eleven abstracts on Sutent will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology in May.
Her decision to follow the guidance means the drug Sutent can be used as a first treatment for advanced kidney cancer.
Here at the cancer meeting, data were presented on AG-13736, another pill that hits two of the five cancer proteins Sutent targets.
It took just three years to prove that Sutent benefited his patients.
Early results are promising, and the second compound may lack Sutent's side effects, which include fatigue, an incredibly sensitive tongue and yellowed skin.
One piece of evidence is in the trials Demetri conducted of Sutent for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), a deadly disease but a tiny market.
Demetri of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who codesigned trials of AP23573 after big successes with other fast-tracked pills, such as Gleevec and Pfizer's Sutent.
It has high hopes for its new kidney cancer drug Afinitor, which helps patients whose disease is resistant to Pfizer's kidney tumor drug Sutent.
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Previous trials have shown Sutent extends life in patients with stomach cancer and shrinks kidney tumors--results that could put it on the market next year.
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Pfizer has submitted Sutent, a cancer drug that Chief Executive Henry "Hank"McKinnellHenry "Hank" McKinnell has described as "revolutionary", to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Without Sutent, he says, he might have missed his two grandsons.
Sutent has doubled the life expectancy of some patients in trials.
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Yesterday, in an interview, Pfizer research chief John LaMattina predicted that Sutent would be the beginning of a big presence in oncology for the drug giant.
Sutent made sense as a follow-up drug because it hit several defective proteins involved in cancer and, it was hoped, would get around the tumor cells' resistance.
In March, NICE ruled against the use of two drugs, Lapatinib and Sutent, that prolong the life of those with certain forms of breast and stomach cancer.
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