Monday, May 24, 2021

Verastem Oncology Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Ovarian Cancer Med

 Results of Early Trial Demonstrate 70% Overall Response Rate (ORR) in Patients with KRAS Mutant Tumors, 44% ORR in KRAS Wild-Type Tumors and 52% ORR in All Evaluable Patients with a Favorable Safety Profile

Verastem, Inc. (Nasdaq:VSTM) (also known as Verastem Oncology), a biopharmaceutical company committed to advancing new medicines for patients battling cancer, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy designation for the combination of its investigational RAF/MEK inhibitor VS-6766, with defactinib, its FAK inhibitor, for the treatment of all patients with recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSOC) regardless of KRAS status after one or more prior lines of therapy, including platinum-based chemotherapy.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/verastem-oncology-receives-breakthrough-therapy-110000054.html

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