Experimental drug shown to 'significantly' slow progression of brain cancer
A new experimental drug was found to "significantly" reduce the progression of brain cancer, Reuters reported.
Vorasidenib, created by Servier Group, a private drug developer, was shown to slow the progression of brain tumors by an average of over 16 months, per Bloomberg. The results of the 331-patient study were published June 4 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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"What you just heard is a trial that was well done and well thought out: to use an oral, targeted, well-tolerated therapy to see if we could delay the use of our standard chemotherapy and radiation," Wake Forest Baptist Health's Dr. Glenn Lesser commented at an American Society of Clinical Oncology briefing. "The results are quite striking and they're statistically highly significant, and more importantly, they're clinically very, very significant."
Servier Group is working to get the drug approved by the Food & Drug Administration for use in the U.S.
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