AbbVie has suffered a further setback with its oncology drug Rova-T, after early data from a lung cancer trial suggested that patients were living longer when treated with standard therapy.
NICE has said MSD’s cancer immunotherapy, Keytruda, should receive interim funding on the NHS in certain patients with untreated lung cancer, in combination with chemotherapy.
AstraZeneca’s immunotherapy combination including its checkpoint inhibitor drug Imfinzi has failed to improve overall survival in a first-line lung cancer trial – an indication where Merck
Janssen Biotech has bought Yuhan’s Lazertinib, a novel clinical-stage therapeutic candidate for the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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