Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP) said on May 23 that it will discontinue a global PIII trial for its investigational anticancer drug BBI608 in patients with colorectal cancer following a recommendation from an independent safety monitoring committee. The trial, dubbed CO.23,…
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