Tesaro eyes first-line prize for Zejula - data to be presented at ESMO 2018

10 October 2018

Zug, Switzerland-based oncology specialist Tesaro (Nasdaq: TSRO) says it will present six abstracts at the upcoming annual meeting of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Munich, Germany.

The firm’s main product, Zejula (niraparib), is part of the PARP inhibitor class, and approved as a maintenance therapy in the USA and Europe for people with ovarian cancer.

While the therapy took in a handy $100 million or so in the first half of the year, it has struggled to take off to the extent analysts had expected, and Tesaro has been developing the product to differentiate it from rivals such as AstraZeneca’s (LSE: AZN) Lynparza (olaparib).

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