Sar­co­ma ex­pert George Demetri grades the lat­est state­ment on Nanobi­otix's late-stage drug NBTXR3

The first glance at Nanobi­otix’s re­cent round of da­ta for its drug NBTXR3 re­vealed pos­i­tive, but not pow­er­ful, da­ta when used against soft tis­sue sar­co­ma. The p val­ues were with­in the mark for sta­tis­ti­cal sig­nif­i­cance, but just bare­ly. So I asked sar­co­ma ex­pert George Demetri from Dana-Far­ber if he would take a look and give me his opin­ion.

Demetri took his dig­i­tal high­lighter and went to work on the biotech’s PR, scor­ing the re­sults and of­fer­ing re­marks on var­i­ous as­pects of the com­pa­ny state­ment that I found il­lu­mi­nat­ing. Rather than in­ter­pret them, I thought it would be more fun to re­pro­duce the whole thing here, with his com­ments high­light­ed in ital­ics.

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