US biotech firm Incyte (Nasdaq: INCY) has scrapped Phase III studies assessing the combination of its best-selling cancer drug Jakafi (ruxolitinib) alongside Roche’s (ROG: SIX)) Xeloda (capecitabine).
The trials were terminated when a planned interim analysis failed to reveal a sufficient level of efficacy to warrant continuation.
Ongoing trials of Jakafi in solid tumors are to be discontinued as a result of the findings and Incyte is also ending a dose-finding study of the experimental JAK1 inhibitor INCB39110 in the first-line treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer.
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