GlaxoSmithKline cancer therapy regimen shows efficacy in trial
13 December 2010 00:00 in Pharmaceutical Company Product News
GlaxoSmithKline has published positive data from a phase III clinical trial of a new combination therapy for previously untreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.
The company has combined its drug Tykerb (lapatinib) with the commonly-used chemotherapy agent paclitaxel in order to improve survival rates among sufferers.
During the 444-patient study, it was shown that statistically significant overall survival improvements were achieved using GlaxoSmithKline's treatment compared to a placebo-based regimen, while progression-free survival rates also benefited.
GlaxoSmithKline said this adds to the growing body of evidence supporting Tykerb-based treatments among breast cancer patients.
Dr Jeffrey Bloss, vice-president and medicine development leader at GlaxoSmithKline Oncology, said: "To see an overall survival result of this magnitude is definitely encouraging and positively affirms the clinical activity that a lapatinib-based therapy can demonstrate in first-line metastatic breast cancer."
This comes in the same week that the firm published data demonstrating Tykerb's efficacy when combined with trastuzumab, in addition to standard chemotherapy.
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