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And Then There Were Five: Roche's Tecentriq Joins Europe I-O Race

 
• By Kevin Grogan

The latest approvals for the Swiss major's PD-1/L1 inhibitor in both bladder and lung cancer will boost revenues of the drug which may be the last to market in Europe but not the least.

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Roche gets two approvals for Tecentriq - bladder and lung cancer • Source: Shutterstock

The PD-1/PD-L1 field in Europe has a new entrant with Roche's checkpoint inhibitor Tecentriq (atezolizumab) getting the thumbs-up for advanced lung cancer and two types of advanced bladder cancer.

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