AVEO Oncology said that data from a planned interim analysis of the phase II BATON (Biomarker Assessment of Tivozanib in ONcology) study in patients with colorectal cancer indicate that the study is unlikely to meet the primary endpoint in the intent-to-treat patient population.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
