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Article: B-MS withdraws Ixempra MAA.
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- Pharma Marketletter
- Article date:
- March 30, 2009
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US drug major Bristol-Myers Squibb has withdrawn the application for a European centralized marketing authorization for Ixempra (ixabepilone), 2mg/ml powder and solvent for concentrate for solution for infusion.
The agent was expected to be used to treat locally-advanced or metastatic breast cancer after failure of previous cytotoxic chemotherapy treatments. It was to be used in combination with capecitabine.
On November 20, 2008, Europe's Committee for Medicinal ...