Amgen Oncology Highlights Upcoming Data Presentations At The American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2006--Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN - News), the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced upcoming data presentations at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Atlanta. Clinical results will be presented on four investigational cancer therapies: panitumumab in metastatic colorectal cancer patients, denosumab in breast cancer patients with bone metastases, AMG 706 in advanced thyroid cancer patients, and recombinant human Apo2L/TRAIL (co-developed with Genentech, Inc.) in patients with advanced cancer. In addition, updated data evaluating every-three-week administration of darbepoetin alfa for the treatment of anemia associated with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and in combination with iron for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia, will be presented.