Oncothyreon reports another tecemotide failure
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Oncothyreon's cancer vaccine tecemotide missed another endpoint – this time in a Phase I/II study of Japanese patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The drug has already stalled in development once and the implications for the program are still unclear.
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