With three products out, Aratana chases its fourth: a canine cancer drug

With its third FDA-approved drug on the market, Aratana Therapeutics is hunting its next product, a canine cancer immunotherapy treatment. The treatment, called AT-014, would be used to treat bone cancer, or osteosarcoma, in dogs. After a tumor is removed, a vaccine is used to prime the dog’s immune system to target any remaining cancer. Aratana (Nasdaq: PETX) expects to obtain conditional licensure for the treatment from the U.S . Department of Agriculture before the end of 2017, which would…
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