
ObsEva’s second uterine fibroids PhIII comes through, sending some investors to the hills
In the three-company race to develop a new uterine fibroid treatment, ObsEva long lagged behind AbbVie and Myovant. Still, they hoped that better efficacy — including a 93.9% response rate in one Phase III trial — could ultimately deliver better sales.
Now, though, the second of those Phase III studies is out, and it has brought the Swedish biotech back to earth.
In the second of their Phase III trials, 75.5% of patients who took ObsEva’s experimental tablet linzagolix plus a hormone saw their bleeding reduced by at least 50% and at least 80 ml after 24 weeks. Pooling those results with new data from their first Phase III trial — which showed a 93.9% response rate at 24 weeks and a 91.6% response rate at 52 weeks — ObsEva calculated a collective 84.7% responder rate for patients taking their therapy and said the data “confirm potential best-in-class” status.
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