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Biotech / Medical : Ligand (LGND) Breakout!
LGND 199.20+0.1%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST

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To: WTDEC who wrote (29976)1/8/2000 4:58:00 PM
From: Henry Niman  Read Replies (1) of 32384
 
Yes Walter, many saw their quality of life improve, even if they didn't make pre-defined cut-off on the changes in the lesions. The FDA deserves credit for seeing that all of the patients stood a reasonable chance of benefiting, and approved the drug for early and late stage patients.

What I find most amazing is the fact that two members voted against approval, even for advance patients! The FDA Modernization Act included use of tumor shrinkage as a method for demonstrating efficacy, and I think that all members agreed that LGND had demonstrated that benefit, so it seems that the approval rec should have been unanimous for early and late stage patients.
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