[ RadSafe ] Ra-223 Chloride - FDA Approval

[Chris Alston]

Radsafers

Please see:

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm352363.htm

It is hard to tell from the notice.  But I thought that this drug (did
they change the name from Alpharadin, or is that a competitor still in
IND?) was  in trials for the relief of pain from metastases to bone,
and that, incidentally, the investigators showed that pts had
extensions of life (I hope, sincerely, of decent quality, relatively
speaking).  Is it approved for the latter use, or is the FDA just
saying that was why they fast-tracked it?

Cheers
cja