Nektar Therapeutics today announced positive results from a Phase 2 clinical study evaluating single-agent NKTR-102 in women with platinum-resistant/refractory ovarian cancer. A total of 68 patients were enrolled with platinum-resistant disease, half of whom were platinum refractory. All 68 patients were evaluable for the primary endpoint of objective response rate using Gynecologic Cancer InterGroup criteria, which is a combination of response by tumor imaging (RECIST) and/or ovarian cancer biomarker (CA-125) criteria.
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