Re: Farmas USA
EXEL
Exelixis and Roche cast a much, much wider net in collab
Company: Exelixis ( EXEL) and Roche ( OTCQX:RHHBF)( OTCQX:RHHBY)
Therapy: Cabozantinib and atezolizumab
EXEL announced that they would be amending the protocol for their COSMIC-021 study to include 10 new expansion cohorts. This study is assessing the combination of their flagship drug cabozantinib and RHHBF's atezolizumab in various solid tumors. The ten disease areas are in EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer, first-line renal cell carcinoma, triple-negative breast cancer, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, first-line hepatocellular carcinoma, gastric cancer, metastatic colorectal cancer, head and neck cancer, and differentiated thyroid cancer.
Looking forward: Reading down that list is like a what's what of hard-to-treat tumors. This is very interesting news for the collaboration, and that brings the entire study up to 18 expansion cohorts. This is a remarkably wide net for a phase 1b trial, and it makes me wonder whether they have seen anything of particular interest so far in their study. At any rate, it would seem that the various pieces of information we're likely to get out of this study will be worth watching in the years to come
ADXS
Advaxis divulges deeper prostate cancer data
Company: Advaxis, Inc ( ADXS) and Merck ( MRK)
Therapy: ADXS-PSA and pembrolizumab
Disease: Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
News: In a press release, ADXS divulged more data from their poster presentation at ASCO 2018 (covered here in Mining for ASCO 2018's Gold). Previously, we knew about the disease control rate, which looked encouraging for the combination of the listeria-based immunotherapy ADXS-PSA and pembrolizumab. But it seems there were also hints at a survival benefit for patients, since the median overall survival was not reached in the combination group after 13 months of follow-up.
Looking forward: These findings appear to be fairly positive for the combination of these two drugs. The press release indicated that ADXS expects to have mature results soon, and it will be important to see where they land in terms of median overall survival. Right now, there isn't much of a comparator, since these patients had been previously treated with quite a few regimens, and it's another case for the company that there aren't adequate options to compare against. I consider these data positive, and I continue to feel you should have ADXS on your radar.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4179332-3-things-biotech-june-4-2018-big-collaboration-works-cabo
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