Puma shares ripped af­ter grow­ing grade 3 di­ar­rhea threat is high­light­ed in an ab­stract

The skep­tics ripped in­to Puma Biotech­nol­o­gy $PBYI to­day, tear­ing a 20% chunk out of its share price by ear­ly af­ter­noon on Mon­day af­ter get­ting a glimpse of its lead can­cer drug’s con­tin­u­ing prob­lems spurring se­vere cas­es of di­ar­rhea in pa­tients.

The re­ac­tion quick­ly set in af­ter Puma post­ed an ab­stract for an up­com­ing can­cer sym­po­sium which spelled out the in­creas­ing rates in ner­a­tinib tri­als. RBC’s Simos Sime­oni­dis sat down to com­pare the num­bers, and reached a few un­set­tling con­clu­sions. Here’s a note he post­ed Mon­day af­ter­noon:

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