AstraZeneca meets goal with immunotoxin in HCL

4 June 2018
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Data revealed at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting on Saturday offered a promising signal for AstraZeneca’s (LSE: AZN) antibody drug conjugates (ADC) platform.

The Anglo-Swedish pharma major presented positive results from a Phase III trial that evaluated moxetumomab pasudotox in 80 patients with relapsed or refractory hairy cell leukemia (HCL) who had received at least two prior lines of therapy.

"The response rates and elimination of the residual leukaemia cells that cause relapse in some patients, highlight the potential impact"

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