A Successful Failure? Lartruvo’s Speedy Withdrawal Sets New Bar For Accelerated Approval Drugs

Lilly withdraws soft tissue sarcoma drug for failure to confirm clinical benefit two and a half years after US FDA awarded accelerated approval, becoming the fastest withdrawal yet under the regulatory pathway.

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Lartruvo is the fastest withdrawal of an accelerated approval drug. • Source: Shutterstock

Eli Lilly & Co.’s Lartruvo (olaratumab) may well be viewed as a successful failure under the US Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval pathway.

The soft tissue sarcoma treatment came to market on the strength of impressive survival data in a Phase II trial,...

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