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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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So hopefully, that will put a very strong path forward for the development plan
So looking forward, based on strong clinical results from the confirmatory study, we may have a potential label expansion to first-line later this year, which could drive stronger sales growth
So you can see the fruquintinib clearly show a more robust improvement of the overall response rate and the PFS and also numerically better OS improvement
The results are highly encouraging with ORR about 60% and the medium PFS almost 16 months
2023 was an exceptional year for HUTCHMED
And that you have combined to better clinical, even better clinical benefit for these patients
And also, we are very pleased that sovleplenib, our novel Syk inhibitor and for the primary immune thrombocytopenia, the ESLIM-01 trial also achieved positive Phase III and the NDA acceptance and granted a priority review in China
We were able to maintain strong growth for this product, achieving 43% growth versus last year
But obviously, we are most proud of fruquintinib approval in the U.S., our first approval outside China, a big step towards our vision of bringing our innovative medicines to global patients
So we believe this mechanism should target this disease very well and sovleplenib has generated very strong proof-of-concept data
Financially, we ended 2023 with a very strong cash position, thanks to the Takeda partnership and also strong growth from our China commercial operations
We believe it's a great drug
So clearly, sovleplenib has the best-in-class potential in the ITP indication
So I'm very proud of our R&D team and the global partners remain focused and executed very well for the past year and a multiple near-term global development catalysts for 2024 and to 2025
So we are extremely excited about the near-term and longer term for that matter, future for HUTCHMED
We are confident about our goal of becoming self-sustaining by 2025 and well positioned for accelerated growth beyond 2025
And these regulatory activities will ensure a steady flow of new approvals and accelerate our revenue and profit growth in years to come
last year and the EU filing and the Japan NDA submission, we also make a tremendous advancement in the life cycle indication, fruquintinib NDA for second-line gastric cancer accepted for review in China and also the pivotal Phase II for our second-line endometrial cancer and Phase III renal cancer in combination with sintilimab also completed recruitment
We managed a great robust growth in China commercial
And also for savolitinib, an exon 14 non-small cell lung cancer confirmatory trial Phase III already achieved a positive result and we expect the NDA filing early '24 and including the new label expansion in the first-line setting
We have continued to grow our business and achieved over $100 million in market sales in 2023
So our operating performance, we have, regarding the top-line, we have doubled the total revenue from last year to over $830 million
So we believe it will translate into a significant opportunity
And can we turn to Page 6? So we have a strong cash position at end of last year with over $880 million cash, contributed by $400 million of upfront payment from Takeda
So the POC result is highly favorable compared with other IL plus VEGF therapy in RCC
And we also achieved a positive Phase II
the approval came ahead of our original expectation because it was granted priority review and approved only even less than 6 months, but Takeda really prepared well and we work together very well as well
We are particularly encouraged by our Phase I/II trial, demonstrated a robust overall response rate of 80% overall response and the durable response rate of 40% in relapsed/refractory ITP patients
So it represents a very rare disease with an even stronger unmet medical need
So we work together extremely well and we also prepared the launch extremely well as well
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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Increased mortality rate in RCC in China also outpaced the other developed nation and the second-line treatment options remain very limited
   

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