Aveo Eyes Role For Tivozanib In US Kidney Cancer Market, Against The Odds

In the Phase III TIVO-3 study, tivozanib is associated with a trend toward adverse survival and trial has missing data issues.

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Aveo Pharmaceuticals Inc. sees a role for its lead candidate tivozanib in the crowded US kidney cancer market and is gearing up for an FDA filing, but approval looks like a long shot based on results from the Phase III TIVO-3 study in heavily pretreated disease.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Aveo is pitching tivozanib, which originally was developed by Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. Ltd., as a differentiated tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI)

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