Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. subsidiary Astex Pharmaceuticals Inc. plans to file for the US approval of ASTX727, an oral fixed-dose combination of decitabine and cedazuridine, by the end of this year, after the product met its primary endpoint in a Phase III trial.
The positive top-line results came from the 138-patient, open-label ASCERTAIN study in North America with the combo versus intravenous decitabine,...