Tuesday, April 1, 2014

GSK throws in towel on lung cancer vaccine trial

The signage for the GlaxoSmithKline building is pictured in London GlaxoSmithKline has stopped a high-profile clinical trial using a novel vaccine to fight lung cancer after deciding it will not be possible to find a sub-group of patients who might benefit. The decision comes less than two weeks after the British drugmaker said the MAGE-A3 therapeutic vaccine did not help patients with non-small cell lung cancer in the Phase III study but that it planned to continue to trial in the hope of identifying patients with a particular genetic profile for whom it would work.








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