Phase Ib pancreatic cancer data demonstrate Halozyme hyaluronan thesis
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Progression-free survival (PFS) was twice as high and overall survival was three times as high for pancreatic cancer patients with high levels of tumor-associated hyaluronan (HA) who were treated with Halozyme Therapeutics's PEGPH20 (pegylated recombinant human hyaluronidase) plus gemcitabine than for patients whose tumors had low HA levels in a Phase Ib clinical trial.
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