Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. announced the randomized, phase III TOURMALINE-MM3 study met its primary endpoint, demonstrating single-agent oral Ninlaro (ixazomib) as a maintenance therapy resulted in a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival versus placebo.
While doing somewhat-routine reporting on this year’s Senate Appropriations Committee bills, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, quickly realized that he was seeing a full bipartisan rejection of President Donald J. Trump’s plan to defund and therefore dismantle biomedical research in the United States.
