ESMO 2018: Roche to reveal pivotal data on Ignyta's tumor-agnostic TKI

10 October 2018

Roche (ROG: SIX) is to supply new results from a number of studies at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) congress this year.

Perhaps most interesting will be new pivotal data for an investigational medicine, entrectinib, which is being developed as a tumor-agnostic therapy.

Entrectinib is an orally bioavailable, CNS-active TKI, the jewel in the crown of American oncology firm Ignyta, which was picked up by Roche at the start of the year for about $1.7 billion.

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