Otsuka Pharmaceutical said on June 7 that the oral anticancer agent ASTX727, which is being developed by its US subsidiary Astex Pharmaceuticals, demonstrated equivalence to the intravenously administered DNA methylation inhibitor Dacogen (decitabine) in a PIII trial for myelodysplastic syndrome…
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