FDA rejects Aveo kidney cancer drug, asks for additional trial

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FDA rejects Aveo kidney cancer drug, asks for additional trial

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fda-rejects-aveo-kidney-cancer-drug-asks-additional-104849949.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/lxOWswn6diMZr_4kkW3dcA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-06-10T104849Z_1_CBRE9590U1G00_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-PHARMACEUTICALS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring" align="left" title="A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring" border="0" /></a>(Reuters) - Aveo Oncology said the Food and Drug Administration denied approval for its experimental kidney cancer drug citing inconsistent trial results and asked for an additional study. In a complete response letter to the company, the health regulator said inconsistent survival data from the drug tivozanib's trials made the results &quot;uninterpretable and inconclusive. (Reporting by Esha Dey in Bangalore)</p><br clear="all"/>

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