Karyopharm flags a PhII over­all sur­vival fail­ure for lead drug se­linex­or in acute myeloid leukemia

In­ves­ti­ga­tors for Karyopharm $KP­TI say that it’s clear at the in­ter­im analy­sis stage that its lead drug se­linex­or has failed a Phase II test for over­all sur­vival in acute myeloid leukemia.

The com­pa­ny called it af­ter find­ing that 13% in the se­linex­or arm demon­strat­ed a com­plete re­sponse with or with­out full hema­to­log­ic re­cov­ery, com­pared to 3% of pa­tients on the physi­cian’s choice con­trol arm. And those com­plete re­spon­ders will have a chance to con­tin­ue treat­ment with the drug.

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