Biotech, cancer, clinical trials

Seattle Genetics Completes Enrollment in SGN-33 Trial

Luke Timmerman 2/25/09

Seattle Genetics, the Bothell, WA-based developer of targeted cancer drugs, said today it had completed enrollment in a trial of 210 patients with acute myeloid leukemia. The study is looking at the company’s SGN-33 drug in combination with a low-dose chemotherapy drug, compared with the chemotherapy drug alone. The main goal of the study is to help people live longer. Seattle Genetics (NASDAQ: SGEN) expects to see results by the first half of 2010.

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