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Latecomer Brigatinib Looking Good In First-Line NSCLC Head-To-head

 
• By Ian Haydock

Takeda's ALK inhibitor meets primary endpoint in interim analysis from critical first-line lung cancer head-to-head study, helping validate Ariad acquisition, but will be a relative class latecomer to the setting.  

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Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.'s oral anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor brigatinib has shown progression-free survival (PFS) benefits over close rival crizotinib in the first interim analysis from an ongoing head-to-head trial in the commercially important first-line lung cancer setting.

While the Japanese firm did not disclose details of the top-line findings, it said the first pre-specified interim analysis from...

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