Although a few skeptics remain, Esperion Inc.'s top-line data from its pivotal phase III study known as Study 2, or 1002-047, with bempedoic acid (BA) for lowering LDL-C seemed to lay mostly to rest the worries brought on by five neoplasm (lung cancer) deaths in Study 1. "When we think back to May [when data from Study 1 with BA were disclosed], the issue was really: What is the perceived meaningfulness of what we called and still call the spurious result?" CEO Timothy Mayleben told BioWorld.