Danish English
Published: 2009-09-26 16:06:21 CEST
ALK-Abelló
Company Announcement
GRAZAX® approved as a disease modifying allergy treatment
Authorities in 27 European countries have approved GRAZAX® as a
disease
modifying allergy treatment. GRAZAX® is now the only registered
tablet
treatment against grass pollen allergy with documented sustained effect
after
completion of treatment. 

The approval and the extended marketing
authorisation are based on the results
of the first follow-up year in a
long-term study (GT-08) with GRAZAX® published
at the European allergy
congress in June 2009. The results document that the
significant improvement
of the patients' eye and nose symptoms and quality of
life is sustained after
completion of the recommended treatment regimen. 

The patients in the GT-08
study have adhered to the recommended three-year
GRAZAX® treatment regimen and
completed treatment in the autumn of 2007. The
2008 pollen season was thus the
first follow-up year in which the patients did
not receive active treatment
with GRAZAX®. 

The results represent a major breakthrough, since ALK is the
first company ever
to document a sustained disease modifying effect of an
allergy immunotherapy
tablet (AIT). Patients cannot obtain such a sustained
disease modifying effect
with traditional symptom-relieving allergy medication
such as antihistamines
and/or nasal corticosteroids. 

This announcement
does not change ALK's financial outlook for 2009.


ALK-Abelló A/S

Jens
Bager
President & CEO


For further information please contact: 
Per
Plotnikof, Head of Investor Relations, tel: +45 2261 2525
 


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