
Cabozantinib Fails in Phase 3
The company developing the drug, Excelis, now plans to focus it's attention on the ongoing kidney and liver cancer trials for the drug.
The so-called COMET-1 study enrolled 960 men with advanced prostate cancer no longer responding to treatment with the chemotherapy drug docetaxel, Johnson & Johnson's Zytiga and/or Medivation's Xtandi. The patients were randomized to treatment with cabozantinib or the steroid prednisone and followed for survival. As reported Monday, cabozantinib reduced the risk of death by 10% compared to prednisone but the difference was not statistically significant. The study failed to achieve its primary endpoint.
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Source: The Street
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