Amgen Inc. (Nasdaq:AMGN), the world’s largest biotechnology company, and Abgenix (Nasdaq:ABGX), a leading antibody development company, today announced interim data from an ongoing Phase 2 study demonstrating that panitumumab (formerly ABX-EGF), a fully human monoclonal antibody, has antitumor activity when administered as a single-agent treatment to patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who have failed chemotherapy.
