Fruquintinib Becomes First Antineoplastic Drug to Be Prescribed in US
HONG KONG and SHANGHAI, China and FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Sept. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hutchison China MediTech Limited (“Chi-Med”) (Nasdaq/AIM: HCM) today announces that positive results of the Phase III study of surufatinib in advanced neuroendocrine tumors – pancreatic (“SANET-p”) were presented as a proffered paper session at the European Society for Medical Oncology (“ESMO”) Virtual Congress 2020 (Abstract Number 1156O). Results from SANET-p, in addition to previously presented results from Phase III study of surufatinib in advanced neuroendocrine tumors – extra-pancreatic (“SANET-ep”), are published today in The Lancet Oncology.
Hutchison China MediTech Limited (“Chi-Med”) (Nasdaq/AIM: HCM) has initiated FRESCO-2, a Phase III registration study of fruquintinib for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (“CRC”) in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The first patient was dosed on September 3, 2020, in the U.S.
Hutchison China MediTech Limited announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track Designation for the development of fruquintinib, for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who have been previously treated with fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy, an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) biological therapy, and, if RAS wild-type, an anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapy.
LONDON and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and BEIJING, China, May 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hutchison China MediTech Limited (“Chi-Med”) (Nasdaq/AIM: HCM) and BeiGene, Ltd. (“BeiGene”) (Nasdaq: BGNE; HKEX: 06160) today announced that they have entered into a clinical collaboration agreement to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of combining two of Chi-Med’s drug candidates, surufatinib and fruquintinib, with BeiGene’s anti-PD-1 antibody tislelizumab, for the treatment of various solid tumor cancers, in the U.S., Europe, China and Australia.
Chi-Med Announces that Surufatinib Phase III SANET-p Study Achieved Endpoint
Hutchison China MediTech Limited (“Chi-Med”) (AIM/Nasdaq: HCM) today announces that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of China’s National Medical Products Administration (“NMPA”) has granted Priority Review status to the New Drug Application (“NDA”) for surufatinib for the treatment of patients with advanced non-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (“NET”).
Hutchison China MediTech Limited (“Chi-Med”) (AIM/Nasdaq: HCM) today announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has granted Orphan Drug designation to surufatinib for the treatment of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (“NET”).
LONDON, Oct. 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hutchison China MediTech Limited (“Chi-Med”) (AIM/Nasdaq: HCM) today highlighted the publication of results from the Phase II VIKTORY (targeted agent eValuation In gastric cancer basKeT KORea studY) trial in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association of Cancer Research1. The principal study investigator was Dr. Jeeyun Lee, Associate Professor at the Division of Hematology-Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Stops Phase III study of surufatinib in advanced neuroendocrine tumors, meeting the primary endpoint of progression free survival