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NIPU with breaking results
Yesterday, the late breaking abstracts accepted to be
presented at the European Society For Medical
Oncology (ESMO) Congress were released. To qualify,
new research findings from randomised phase II or
phase III trials must have implications for clinical practice
or understanding of disease processes. We thus believe
the first survival data from the NIPU trial will be
convincing and note the survival data is the ‘gold
standard’ efficiency measure as it shows how long a
patient lives.
ESMO Congress 2023 in Madrid, Spain, 20–24 October. Specifically, the
presentation by speaker Dr Helland; “First survival data from the NIPU trial; A
randomised, open-label, phase II study evaluating nivolumab and ipilimumab combined
with UV1 vaccination as second line treatment in patients with malignant mesothelioma
is scheduled for 15:15–15:25 CEST on Saturday 21 October.
Published online 00:05 CEST on Thursday, 19 October. Late-breaking abstracts
accepted for presentation at the ESMO Congress 2023 will be published online via the
ESMO website at 00:05 CEST on Thursday, 19 October 2023.
Survival data is the gold standard. While it was announced in June that the NIPU trial
did not meet the primary endpoint based on a blinded independent central review, we
note that PFS is a surrogate endpoint for what is the ‘gold standard’, overall survival.
We thus view this announcement as very positive for patients in the NIPU trial and UV1
in general.