Broader US label for colorectal cancer drug Erbitux

October 3, 2007

NEW YORK (Reuters) - ImClone Systems Inc and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co said on Tuesday that U.S. regulators had approved a broadened label for their Erbitux drug to include survival data for its use as a single agent for advanced colorectal cancer patients who failed other drugs.

The approval of the Erbitux application was based on a late-stage clinical trial involving 572 patients.

"Erbitux is now the only approved biologic therapy to demonstrate improved overall survival as a single agent in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer," Martin Birkhofer, vice president of oncology global medical affairs at Bristol-Myers, said in a statement.