Hope At ASH For Failed Pfizer Leukemia Drug Mylotarg
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Pfizer is talking about “a path forward” for Mylotarg, the leukemia therapy it pulled off the U.S. market in 2010 for lack of both efficacy and safety, after independent French researchers tried it successfully in a different population using a different regimen from the failed confirmatory trial that sunk the antibody-drug conjugate.
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