Table 1

Table.  Drugs for Leukemia

 

 

Product

 

Class

 

Target

 

Clinical Stage

 

Manufacturer

 

Campath

 

 

Progressive B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Genzyme

 

Depocyt

 

Nucleoside analogue

 

DNA

Market (Lymphomatous meningitis, acute lymphomatous leukemia)

 

Enzon

Genasense

(Oblimersen sodium)

 

Antisense

 

Bcl-2

Phase III

(Chronic lymphocytic leukemia)

 

Aventis and Genta

 

Gleevec

 

Kinase inhibitor

 

Tyrosine kinase inhibitor

Market

(chronic myelonic leukemia)

 

Novartis

 

HuMy9-6-DM1

 

Antibody

 

CD33

Phase I

(Acute myeloid leukemia)

 

ImmunoGen

 

MG98

 

Antisense

 

DNA methyltransferase

Phase I

(Acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplasia)

 

MGI Pharma

 

Novantrone

 

Topoisomerase

 

Topoisomerase II

 

Market

 

OSI

 

PEG-Intron

 

Immunomodulatory

 

Immune system

Phase III

(Chronic myelogenous leukemia)

 

Enzon

 

PKC412

 

Kinase inhibitor

 

Protein Kinase C

Phase I

(Acute myelonic leukemia)

 

Novartis

 

Revimid

 

Immunodomulatory

 

Multiple

Phase II

(Chronic myelonic leukemia and myelodysplastic)

 

Celgene

GVAX

 

 

Chronic myelogenous leukemia

Cell Genesys