Significant survival benefit of Lonsurf in metastatic gastric cancer

21 June 2018

Lonsurf (trifluridine and tipiracil) leads to significant improvement in overall survival (OS) in patients with refractory metastatic gastric cancer, according to Phase III data.

The results of the trial were announced at ESMO’s 20th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer by co-development and commercialization partners, French company Servier and the Otsuka Pharmaceutical (TYO: 4578) subsidiary, Taiho Pharmaceutical.

As previously announced, the trial met its primary objective to improve OS.

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