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    • July 10, 2018 12:56 PM BST
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      CTI slumps as Servier-partnered lymphoma drug fails

      CTI BioPharma has been poleaxed by the news that its much-anticipated late-stage trial for Pixuvri in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) has ended in failure.
      The PIX306 trial paired Pixuvri (pixantrone) – already sold in some European markets as a monotherapy for hard-to-treat NHL – with Roche’s MabThera (rituximab) and compared it to MabThera plus gemcitabine in aggressive B-cell NHL, but found that CTI’s drug was unable to improve progression-free survival (PFS), its primary endpoint.
      Shares in CTI were suspended as the news broke but slumped after trading resumed as investors came to terms with both a threat to the drug’s EU approval, and little chance of a route towards US approval.
      Read more: http://www.pmlive.com/pharma_news/cti_slumps_as_servier-partnered_lymphoma_drug_fails_1243683

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