Lorus Virulizin pancreatic cancer data
This article was originally published in Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
Executive Summary
Lorus Therapeutics believes its immunotherapy Virulizin could benefit a subgroup of pancreatic cancer patients with ECOG performance status of 0 or 1, the firm says Oct. 18. The Toronto biotech found, however, that its Phase III trial did not show statistical significance for median overall survival in chemo-naïve patients receiving Virulizin plus gemcitabine compared to placebo plus gemcitabine. "For the efficacy evaluable population, the study showed that the addition of Virulizin to gemcitabine resulted in a median [OS] of 6.8 months and a one-year survival rate of 27.2%, compared to 6.0 months and 16.8% for placebo plus gemcitabine," Lorus said. In ECOG PS 0/1 patients, "the result approached statistical significance with a p-value of 0.063"...