New Phase 3 Data show Optune in Combination with Second Line Chemotherapy is Superior to Second Line Chemotherapy Alone in Glioblastoma Patients at First Recurrence

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announced today new Phase 3 data showing that glioblastoma patients who received TTFields in combination with chemotherapy at first recurrence lived significantly longer than patients who received chemotherapy alone. The data will be presented at the 20th Annual Society for Neuro-Oncology Meeting in San Antonio. The post-hoc analysis of the EF-14 Phase 3 clinical trial shows that patients treated with TTFields in combination with physician's best choice second line chemotherapy reduced their risk of death by 31 percent compared to patients treated with physician's best choice second line chemotherapy alone (HR= 0.695, p= 0.0489). Patients treated with TTFields in combination with bevacizumab (Avastin®), reduced their risk of death by 39 percent compared to patients treated with bevacizumab alone (HR=0.606, p= 0.0428). "Our analysis shows that GBM patients continue benefiting from TTFields therapy even after their disease has recurred," says Santosh Kesari, a trial investigator and Chair of Translational Neuro-Oncology and Neurotherapeutics at John Wayne Cancer Institute and Director of Neuro-Oncology at the Pacific Brain Tumor Center at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. "This survival benefit is maintained across multiple lines of second line therapy, including bevacizumab, and points to the need for physicians to incorporate Optune into the standard-of-care for glioblastoma."