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Breathing Room For BMS In Renal Cancer As Early Tecentriq Data Mixed

 
• By Sukaina Virji

Latecomer Tecentriq from Roche has been making solid in roads in the lung cancer space, where it has been scrapping it out with Bristol-Myers Squibb's Opdivo and Merck & Co's Keytruda. However, early data with Tecentriq in the renal cell carcinoma (RCC) space are less than impressive. The news will be welcomed by BMS, which has Opdivo approved in advanced RCC.

Roche's Genentech division presented the first results from IMmotion150 Phase II study that was investigating Tecentriq (atezolizumab, a PD-L1 antibody) alone, and in combination with Avastin (bevacizumab) vs standard of care Sutent (sunitinib), in first-line metastatic RCC.

In an ITT analysis, the two Tecentriq arms did not show significant benefit over Sutent. However, when only PD-L1 expressers were considered, then Tecentriq + Avastin arm did show significant...

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