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The approval was based on findings from the international, randomised, open-label Phase III DESTINY-Breast04 clinical trial. Furthermore, Enhertu’s safety profile was in line with prior clinical trials without any new safety concerns detected. months compared with 5.1 months for the chemotherapy arm. months compared with 16.8
The company claimed that the utmost benefit is reported in hormone-receptor positive (HR+) women and those who commence treatment with Nerlynx within a year of receiving trastuzumab-based therapy. In a Phase III ExteNET clinical trial, neratinib offered a 34% decline in the risk of recurrence and a 2.3%
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Sling Therapeutics has positive topline results from its Phase IIb/III LIDS clinical trial evaluating its oral small-molecule therapy linsitinib for the treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED). Ninety patients in the trial were randomized to receive one of two doses of linsitinib or placebo.
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Eli Lilly announced that its obesity drug tirzepatide has scored favorably in a late-stage clinical trial, with results showing that people who took the drug lost an average of 50 pounds, or 21 percent, of their body weight compared to placebo. percent and 22.5 percent, respectively, compared to placebo.
Amvuttra’s FDAapproval is based on positive data from the global, randomized, open-label, multicenter HELIOS-A Phase III study from a period of nine months. TTR is made in the liver and is involved in carrying the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4) and retinol (vitamin A) to the liver. billion in global sales by 2026.
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The trial had enrolled 309 patient out of a target population of 525, who had not progressed after first-line induction therapy. No new safety signals were observed with Lynparza in the trial, said the statement, and the safety profiles of both the monotherapy and combination arms were generally consistent with previously reported studies.
AZ and Merck’s drug was also approved as a second-line therapy after Xtandi or Pfizer’s Zytiga (abiraterone) for mCRPC in 2020, but only as a monotherapy in patients with tumours that express homologous recombination repair (HRR) gene mutation – including BRCA1/2 and ATM).
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