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Biotech / Medical : Ligand (LGND) Breakout! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Henry Niman who wrote (20879)	5/15/1998 4:06:00 PM
From: RXGOLF	Respond to of 32384

LGND up 5/16 (:- >.

To: Henry Niman who wrote (20879)	5/15/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: Andreas Helke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32384

Here is an excerpt from thestreet.com coverage of the upcoming ASCO meeting. What I found particularly interesting is that this is an example of an cancer drug where the majority of sales are off label. Andreas Sequus has a bunch of abstracts of studies here at the conference. The company's anticancer drug, Doxil, has been showing steady sales growth, despite that the drug is only approved for Kaposi's sarcoma. The majority of sales is in other cancers. Doxil is a special formulation of a common anticancer compound encased in a fat that is supposed to make it safer and, potentially, more effective. Data on Doxil in refractory ovarian cancer looks promising, but its use in breast cancer, a much larger market, "remains uncertain," according to OpCo. from thestreet.com

To: Henry Niman who wrote (20879)	5/16/1998 11:41:00 AM
From: aknahow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32384

Henry FYI in case you and others have not heard about this conference. On 19 May there is on line Biotechnology conference. Analyst from Salomon, Cowen, Lehman, H & Q, Bear Sterns, Nations Banc Montgomery, Prudential and Robertson Stevens. Gene Therapy "experts", Biotech CEOs authors etc. biotechconference.com Site loads slow, registration required,but free. Need real audio etc. BTW anyone care to explain how real audio works? If you have it is it transparent? For me that means does it just work or do I have to do something complicated to use it?