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Subsequent Events
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events

Note 18. Subsequent Events

 

On July 13, 2020, the Company announced that it has received a recommendation from the DMC to consider stopping the global Phase III OPTIMA Study of ThermoDox® in combination with RFA for the treatment of HCC, or primary liver cancer. The recommendation was made following the second pre-planned interim safety and efficacy analysis by the DMC on July 9, 2020. The DMC analysis found that the pre-specified boundary for stopping the trial for futility of 0.900 was crossed with an actual value of 0.903. The Company intends to follow the advice of the DMC and will consider its options either to stop the study or continue to follow patients after a thorough review of the data, and an evaluation of the probability of success. Timing for this decision is made less urgent by the fact that the OPTIMA Study has been fully enrolled since August 2018 and that the vast majority of the trial expenses have already been incurred. On August 4, 2020, the Company issued a press release announcing it will continue following patients for overall survival (“OS”), noting that the unexpected and marginally crossed futility boundary, suggested by the Kaplan-Meier analysis at the second interim analysis on July 9, 2020, may be associated with a data maturity issue.