EISAI PRESENTS RESULTS OF PHASE III TRIAL OF LENVIMA? (LENVATINIB) IN UNRESECTABLE HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN ORAL SESSION AT 20TH CSCO ANNUAL MEETING
Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, “Eisai”) has announced that the results of a subpopulation analysis of patients from the Greater Chinese Region (mainland China, HKSA, and Chinese Taiwan) in a Phase III trial (REFLECT / Study 304) of its in-house discovered and developed anticancer agent lenvatinib mesylate (product names: Lenvima? / Kisplyx?, “lenvatinib”) versus sorafenib as a first-line treatment for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were orally presented for the first time during the 20th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO), which took place in Xiamen (Amoy) in the Fujian Province of China. Over half of the world‘s HCC patients come from the Greater Chinese Region.