Saturday, January 12, 2013

Targeted failure of the week. Post No 43. Tivantinib again

The trial, which enrolled 122 patients with refractory or relapsed colorectal cancer, also failed to meet the secondary goal of showing improved response to the drug tivantinib.

Several months ago tivantinib failed for lung cancer. This time it failed in colon cancer. And tivantinib is of course targeted drug: ArQule's lead product, tivantinib (ARQ 197), is designed to block the activity of a molecule known as c-Met that plays multiple key roles in human cancer

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