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Pharmacyclics Receives Refuse to File Letter for Xcytrin

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 11th, 2007

Pharmacyclics, Inc. (NASDAQ:PCYC) announced that it has received a refuse to file letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the company's new drug application (NDA) for Xcytrin(R) (motexafin gadolinium) Injection for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases.

In the letter, the FDA stated that the company's application is not sufficiently complete to permit a substantive review based on clinical studies that failed to demonstrate statistically significant differences between treatment arms in the primary endpoints.

"We will be evaluating our options with Xcytrin for the brain metastases indication...

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