ASCO 2014: Takeda, Roche and Celgene present results

2 June 2014

A host of results have been presented by global pharma majors at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), which began on Friday in Chicago.

Takeda presents Velcade data

Millennium, the oncology division of Japan’s largest drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical (TYO: 4502), announced results from the primary analysis of an international, randomized Phase III study that showed treatment with a Velcade (bortezomib)-based combination therapy demonstrated a 59% relative improvement in the study’s primary endpoint of progression-free survival among previously untreated patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) compared to treatment with a standard therapy.

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