David Loew, Ipsen CEO

Ipsen's pan­cre­at­ic can­cer drug bests decade-old stan­dard of care

Ipsen’s can­cer drug Onivyde, when com­bined with chemother­a­py, per­formed bet­ter than stan­dard of care at ex­tend­ing the lives of pa­tients with a cer­tain pan­cre­at­ic can­cer.

The bio­phar­ma said the tri­al re­sults mark the first time an in­ves­ti­ga­tion­al drug has shown bet­ter over­all sur­vival and pro­gres­sion-free sur­vival as a first-line treat­ment than stan­dard of care for pa­tients with metasta­t­ic pan­cre­at­ic duc­tal ade­no­car­ci­no­ma (mP­DAC). This year, about 64,000 peo­ple in the US will be di­ag­nosed with pan­cre­at­ic can­cer, which has the worst five-year sur­vival rate, ac­cord­ing to the Amer­i­can Can­cer So­ci­ety.

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Alexandria Real Estate Equities

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