Results Recap: Long-Term Results Support NovoCure's Optune Brain-Cancer Technology
Executive Summary
Results Recap is Medtech Insight's exclusive summary of clinical trial results that have been announced or published in the past week, based on information collected by Meddevicetracker. This week's edition, covering the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 6, includes results of a retrospective post-hoc sub-group analysis of the EF-14 phase III pivotal trial of Novocare's Optune system in newly diagnosed glioblastoma, one-year data from a study of Vieve Medical's Geneveve treatment of mild-to-moderate stress urinary incontinence, and complete results from the Long-Term Treatment Study of NeuroPace's RNS system to treat epileptic seizures.
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