Publications by authors named "Punam H Patel"
A review of oral antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B.
Ann Pharmacother
October 2010
Objective: To describe the current evidence for the use of oral antiretroviral (ARV) agents in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB).
Data Sources: A search from 1950 to April 2010 was conducted using the databases PubMed and MEDLINE with the search terms chronic hepatitis B, lamivudine, entecavir, adefovir, telbivudine, tenofovir, emtricitabine, clevudine, and pradefovir. The search was limited to trials conducted in humans that were published in the English language.
Sipuleucel-T: a vaccine for metastatic, asymptomatic, androgen-independent prostate cancer.
Ann Pharmacother
January 2008
Objective: To review the design, efficacy, safety, dosing, therapeutic, and pharmacoeconomic considerations of sipuleucel-T, an investigational, autologous, dendritic, cell-based prostate cancer vaccine.
Data Sources: English-language literature searches of MEDLINE (1966-September 2007) and the Cochrane Database (2007, Issue 3) were performed using the terms sipuleucel-T, APC8015, and prostate cancer vaccine. Other data sources were identified from bibliographies of selected articles and from press releases.