Eli Lilly and Co’s LOXO-292, a experimental cancer drug the company acquired in January as part of its $8 billion takeover of Loxo Oncology, shrank tumours in nearly 70 per cent of advanced lung cancer patients whose tumors carried specific abnormalities in the RET gene.
The results, at the World Lung Conference on Lung Cancer in Barcelona, will support Lilly’s application for US Food and Drug Administration approval later this year.
“At the beginning of this year, we put a bet on Loxo,” Dr Daniel Skovronsky, Chief Scientific Officer, Lilly, said. “The result certainly validates that bet and exceeds what many people expected.”
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