Loxo and Bayer present positive biomarker-based data for larotrectinib at ESMO 2018

21 October 2018

East Coast, USA-based Loxo Oncology (Nasdaq: LOXO) and Germany’s Bayer (BAYN: DE) have announced clinical data for their investigational TRK blocker larotrectinib at the annual congress of the European Congress of Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Munich.

The update includes approximately one year of additional follow-up for the 55 patients described in the larotrectinib New England Journal of Medicine publication from February 2018, as well as 67 patients who were subsequently enrolled across the larotrectinib development program.

As of a cut-off date of July 30, 2018, median duration of response (DOR) had not been reached in either dataset.

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