Kyowa Hakko Kirin said on March 27 that the c-MET inhibitor tivantinib could not deliver a statistically significant improvement versus placebo in the primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) in a Japan PIII study for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma…
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