Tag: glioblastoma

China NMPA OKs Optune for treatment of certain glioblastoma
May 13, 2020 Off

China NMPA OKs Optune for treatment of certain glioblastoma

By BusinessWire

Novocure’s Optune has became the first innovative treatment for glioblastoma approved in China in over 15 years, the company said in a Wednesday press release, after it’s global phase 3 pivotal clinical study in newly diagnosed glioblastoma showed adding Optune to chemotherapy more than doubled the five-year overall survival rate.

October 2, 2015 Off

Merck and DNAtrix to evaluate the efficacy and safety of DNX-2401

By Dino Mustafić

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and DNAtrix announced on Thursday that they have entered into an oncology clinical study collaboration to evaluate the efficacy and safety of DNX-2401, DNAtrix’s oncolytic immunotherapy, in combination with Keytruda (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in a Phase 2, multi-centered study of patients with recurrent glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer for which there is no cure.