FDA Pumps the Brakes on Epizyme’s Top Cancer Drug Tazemetostat

FDA Pumps the Brakes on Epizyme’s Top Cancer Drug Tazemetostat

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Epizyme (NASDAQ: EPZM) said Monday that a pediatric patient taking its experimental cancer drug tazemetostat developed a new cancer, different than the one tazemetostat had been treating. The secondary cancer, a lymphoma, spurred the Food and Drug Administration to halt all new enrollment in tazemetostat trials.