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Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Bolsters Ozarelix Team With Addition Of In-House Urology Expert Bela S. Denes, MD, FACS

May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
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Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPPI) today announced the supplementary of Bela S. Denes, MD, FACS to the ozarelix mortgage troop by means of Senior Director of Clinical Research and Development. Ozarelix be immediately in a Phase 2b clinical testing in patients near benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH).

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Ozarelix Phase 2 Data In tardy 2006, Spectrum report significantly statistically final grades in favor of ozarelix from a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center, dose band Phase 2 trial in patients pain from BPH. Results from that trial be previously personal to give your acceptance to an Investigational New Drug submission (IND) with the Food and Drug Administration. Following the acknowledgment of the IND by the Food and Drug Administration in January 2007, a randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 2b trial of ozarelix enrol gruffly 75 man suffering from BPH was initiate. To date, 45 patients own be enrol in the trial, and facts from this Phase 2b trial is appointed to be unclaimed in the second partially of 2007, with sanctuary and efficacy data expected to be used to support a New Drug Application (NDA) for ozarelix. A Phase 3 trial of ozarelix in BPH is expected to begin enrollment in the second half of 2007.

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