Seattle Genetics Takeda Highlight Long-term Follow-up Data from ADCETRIS Pivotal Clinical Trials at ASH

Seattle Genetics

and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

today announced updated overall survival data from two ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) pivotal Phase 2 clinical trials in relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma (R/R HL) and relapsed/refractory systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (R/R sALCL) were presented at the 55th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition taking place in New Orleans, LA, December 7-10, 2013. ADCETRIS is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) directed to CD30. Median overall survival (OS) of 40.5 months was reported in R/R HL, and was not yet reached in R/R sALCL. “The updated data from the pivotal ADCETRIS clinical trials demonstrate extended survival among this heavily