SmithKline Beecham's Hycamtin Receives EU Approval

25 November 1996

- SmithKline Beecham's Hycamtin (topotecan) has been granted marketing clearance in all 15 European Union member states for the second-line treatment of metastatic ovarian cancer. The approval was based on data submitted by the company which demonstrated that Hycamtin was more effective than Bristol-Myers Squibb's Taxol (paclitaxel) in this indication (Marketletter November 11). Hycamtin is expected to be made available in most EU markets in early 1997.

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