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Takeda’s Oral Relugolix Scores Non-Inferiority vs Leuprorelin in Uterine Fibroids: Japan PIII

October 4, 2017
Takeda Pharmaceutical said on October 3 that its once-daily oral gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist relugolix (development code: TAK-385) showed non-inferiority to leuprorelin acetate in a PIII clinical study in Japanese women with uterine fibroids. The trial dubbed the TAK-385/CCT-002…

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