reported that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) had raised the safety signal, which is a way to monitor potential adverse events from the use of approved drugs.
"Novo Nordisk is aware of the signal and the request by EMA and will deliver a thorough assessment of all relevant data to elucidate this topic," Lars Otto Andersen-Lange, media relations director at Novo Nordisk, told Reuters.
report referred to a May 8 statement from EMA, which raised a thyroid cancer safety signal for several drugs in the GLP-1 class, including semaglutide.
But a "causal association" between semaglutide and thyroid cancer had not been demonstrated in large-scale clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance, he said.
EMA's safety signal had also included GLP-1 drugs from competitors Eli Lilly (LLY.N), Astrazeneca (AZN.L) and Sanofi (SASY.PA).
Persons:
Lars Otto Andersen, Lange, Andersen, " Andersen, Eli Lilly, Soren Lontoft Hansen, Nikolaj Skydsgaard, Maggie Fick, Alexander Smith
Organizations:
Novo Nordisk, European Medicines Agency, EMA, Nordisk, Reuters, Astrazeneca, Sanofi, Thomson
Locations:
COPENHAGEN, Novo, Denmark's Novo, Copenhagen