De­clar­ing topline PhI­II win, Take­da re­vives block­buster hopes for its trou­bled mul­ti­ple myelo­ma drug

Five months af­ter dis­mal tri­al re­sults con­vinced Take­da to scrap an en­tire Phase III pro­gram for their mul­ti­ple myelo­ma drug Nin­laro, the Japan­ese gi­ant an­nounced a dif­fer­ent late-stage tri­al has met its pri­ma­ry end­point — al­though they have yet to re­lease any da­ta.

Nin­laro im­proved pro­gres­sion-free sur­vival as a first-line main­te­nance treat­ment in a place­bo tri­al of 706 pa­tients who have not re­ceived a stem cell trans­plant and re­spond­ed to 6-12 months of treat­ment, Take­da an­nounced.

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