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• The approval is based on the pooled clinical study including P-I study in adults- P-II NAVIGATE study in adults & adolescents & P-I/II pediatric SCOUT study assessing Vitrakvi in 102 patients (93 patients from the primary analysis population and an additional 9 patients with primary CNS tumors) with solid tumors displaying NTRK gene
• Results: primary analysis population- ORR (72%); CR (16%); PR (55%); Post 1yr. 88% patients were alive; primary CNS patients- ORR (67%); CR & PR (15% & 15%); neither mDOR nor mPFS met at the time of analysis
• Vitrakvi is an oral highly selective TRK inhibitor- already approved in the US- Brazil & Canada. Following LOXO acquisition- Bayer got WW exclusive licensing right to develop & commercialize larotrectinib and the investigational TRK inhibitor BAY 2731954

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