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AstraZeneca's Tagrisso Price Tag Is 'Clearly A Strategy'

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

AstraZeneca PLC has priced its newly approved lung cancer therapy at a "competitive" rate, at $12,750 (£8,944) per patient per month, keeping its eyes on a future first-line use indication.

AstraZeneca PLC has priced its newly approved lung cancer therapy at a "competitive" rate, at $12,750 (£8,944) per patient per month, keeping its eyes on a future first-line use indication.

Tagrisso (osimertinib) was approved by the US FDA on Nov. 13 for use in a specific type of non-small cell lung cancer, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) T790M mutation-positive NSCLC....

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