In a stinging setback, Pfizer’s cancer blockbuster Ibrance flops in key adjuvant setting
One of Pfizer’s top, long-running R&D catalysts has gone up in smoke, and it took an $11 billion bite of their market cap in the process.
The monitoring committee determined that Pfizer’s adjuvant study using Ibrance combined with standard endocrine therapy in an adjuvant setting for early-stage breast cancer has officially failed to make the cut. The combo failed to beat the standard alone, tripping over the futility analysis. And the Pfizer team will now wrap the study early after pumping up hopes that their blockbuster cancer therapy could find billions more by proving its efficacy for disease-free survival in a major area — something AstraZeneca just accomplished with Tagrisso to great fanfare.
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