Oct 13 (Reuters) – BioNTech said on Tuesday its experimental mRNA cancer immunotherapy failed to meet the first main goal of a mid-to-late-stage trial in patients with head and neck cancer. US-listed shares of the drug developer were down nearly 6% in premarket trading. • The trial tested the drug, BNT113, combined with Merck’s blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda in patients with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) linked t…
In the case of head and neck cancer, mRNA immunotherapy did not stop the disease from progressing. Nevertheless, the Mainzians do not see a definitive outcome.
Another setback for the Mainz-based biopharma company BioNTech: In an important late-stage study for the treatment of head and neck cancer, the hope bearer BNT113 missed one of its main objectives. Despite the damper, the researchers continued the study to investigate the overall survival of patients. As the company announced, the mRNA-based therapy candidate BNT113 was able to continue the study in a clinical phase 3 study [...] Der Beitrag Dam…