Mike Weiss
Analyst · Ren Benjamin with HC Wainwright. Please proceed with your questions
Yeah, for sure. So you raised a really interesting point, Ren. We went to the ASH and we did have a series of investors who came to us and said, you know, we talked to the doctors and they said that they are – they can handle, they can manage the liver tox, and they can even manage the colitis, although we are seeing a lot, we’re concerned about colitis for sure. But they said look we can manage liver tox, we give patients chemotherapy everyday, in the grand scheme of things, we can handle this and we handle chemotherapy. And we said to the investor that sounds reasonable, these are very sophisticated doctors who deal with very toxic agents all the time, but did you ask them a follow-up question, which is, we know you can handle it doctor, oncologists, but can you – if you had a choice of a drug that doesn’t have liver tox versus a drug that have liver tox or one that has colitis versus one that does not have colitis or even much lower incidents of each one of those, which drug you want on to use, and they said, no, no, we didn’t ask that question. But we did, we asked that question to every doctor we met with and we had a resounding laughter. Not one person did anything, but laugh at us and say, well, of course, we are going to use the one that has the lower toxicity if we have a choice, we were just saying we can manage it if we don’t have a choice. So I think that’s the problem when you ask the question can they handle it. We are dealing with people who are used to be on very toxic agents. They can handle just about anything. The question is if you have a choice, everything else being equal, less toxic alternative, they are always going to take the less toxic alternative. And that will become even more pronounced in the community where, again, I’m not saying this is going to be our issue or any ones issue, but they would even use probably a less active agent if it had a much better toxicity profile. You might not get that in academic settings where they would – the risk/benefit ratios might be slightly skewed, in terms of the community, they are going to have a real focus on that safety profile where the academics may push it a little bit. But even still, we think that all things are going to be equal, if not, again, to our advantage on the efficacy side versus a safety profile that is clearly distinguishable and that will resonate with the physicians.