Servier/Taiho drug succeeds in gastric cancer Phase III trial

9 May 2018

Servier and Taiho Pharmaceutical (a subsidiary of Japan’s Otsuka [TYO: 4768]) announced today that the pivotal Phase III trial (TAGS) evaluating Lonsurf (trifluridine/tipiracil) plus best supportive care (BSC) versus Placebo plus BSC in patients with advanced metastatic gastric cancer (mGC) met its primary objective to improve overall survival (OS).

These results will be submitted for presentation at an upcoming international medical conference and will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication.

The TAGS trial is a global, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluating Lonsurf versus Placebo in patients with pre-treated metastatic gastric cancer (mGC).

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