Acceleron Pharma Provides Update On Externally Sponsored Clinical Trial Of Dalantercept Monotherapy In Ovarian Cancer

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acceleron Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ:XLRN), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel protein therapeutics for cancer and rare diseases, today announced results from an interim report for a two-part clinical study sponsored by the Gynecology Oncology Group evaluating dalantercept as monotherapy in patients with recurrent or persistent epithelial ovarian cancer. The study design required at least 7 of 30 patients enrolled in part one of the study to be progression free for greater than six months in order to trigger the enrollment of approximately an additional 30 patients for part two of this study. In part one of the study, 6 patients were progression free without receiving non-protocol therapy for greater than six months. Based on these results, patients will not be enrolled in the second part of the trial.

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