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Basal Cell Carcinoma Data Steal Show In Verrica’s Q2 Earnings

 
• By Alaric DeArment

The company plans an end-of-Phase II meeting with the FDA for VP-315, for which it announced positive Phase II data indicating potential as a frontline treatment.

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Verrica Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is hoping to tap a potentially multibillion-dollar market for the most common form of cancer in the US, basal cell carcinoma (BCC), with positive Phase II data for its immunotherapy VP-315.

The company announced preliminary results from the second part of the study on 14 August, alongside its second quarter 2024 earnings. But it was the VP-315 data that stole the Q2 show, and Verrica plans to schedule an end-of-Phase II meeting with the US Food and Drug Administration for the first half of next year to discuss how to take the drug forward

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