Oasmia's Paclical/Apealea shows positive overall survival in ovarian cancer

27 April 2016

Sweden’s Oasmia Pharmaceutical (STO: OSM) has released positive overall survival results for Paclical/Apealea (paclitaxel) in the Phase III study that included a total of 789 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer.

These preliminary results showed non-inferiority between the two treatment groups of Paclical/Apealea in combination with carboplatin versus Taxol in combination with carboplatin. In fact, the overall survival in patients completing six treatment cycles was 25.7 months in patients that had received the Paclical/Apealea combination compared to 24.8 months in patients that had received the Taxol combination.

Shares of Oasmia were up 3.2% at 12.80 Swedish kronor mid-morning today, having hit a high of 13.50 kroner earlier.

The results from the evaluation of the OS data confirm previous findings from June 2014 that the study had met the primary endpoint of progression free survival (PFS) favoring Paclical/Apealea, and strengthens the positive risk/benefit profile for Paclical/Apealea published in October 2014.

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