Drug Shows 10-Month Survival Improvement in Sarcoma

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Conference|American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (ASCO)

In this video, Dr. Tap discusses a randomized phase Ib/II trial that found that adding olaratumab to doxorubicin dramatically improved survival in patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcoma.

In this video, Dr. Tap discusses a randomized phase Ib/II trial that found that adding olaratumab to doxorubicin dramatically improved survival in patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcoma. The data were presented at the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. Read our conference report of this study.

 

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