Nippon Kayaku To Restart Hycamtin Trial For Ovarian Cancer
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Nippon Kayaku will restart a clinical trial in Japan for Hycamtin (topotecan) to treat ovarian cancer. The trial is to move forward a NDA submitted by the company to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare May 2007. Last October, the company was notified to submit additional data. Developed by GlaxoSmithKline, topotecan was approved to treat small-cell lung cancer in Japan in 2001 and Nippon Kayaku licensed the drug from GSK in 2003. The annual sales for Hycamtin in Japan are ¥100 million. (Click here for more - Japanese language