SAN DIEGO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company with its parent company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) today reported results from the final five-year follow-up analysis of the international, multicenter, Phase III VISTA1 trial. The analysis assessed overall survival (OS) after treatment with VELCADE (bortezomib) in combination with melphalan and prednisone (VcMP) versus melphalan and prednisone (MP) alone, in patients with previously untreated multiple myeloma (MM) at a median follow-up of 60.1 months. The data were presented by Professor Jesús F. San Miguel, M.D., Ph.D., Hospital Clìnico Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, during an oral session at the 53rd annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), held December 10-13, 2011 in San Diego, California. These long-term OS data were also the basis of the recent FDA-approved label update for VELCADE.
