LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (Abraxis) (NASDAQ:ABII), an integrated biotechnology company, today announced that the European Commission has granted marketing approval for ABRAXANE® powder for suspension for infusion (an albumin-bound nanoparticle formulation of paclitaxel) for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer in patients who have failed first-line treatment for metastatic disease and for whom standard, anthracycline-containing therapy is not indicated. The Phase III clinical trial results on which this approval was based demonstrated that ABRAXANE doubled the response rate and significantly prolonged progression-free survival and overall survival versus Taxol® in the approved indication.
