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Roche Remains Positive After Tecentriq Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Data

 
• By Kevin Grogan

Clinicians and the company have heralded the IMpassion130 data presented at ESMO which showed that Roche's Tecentriq is the first immunotherapy to improve outcomes in TNBC but a slight blot on the landscape is that pretty much all of the survival benefit was seen in breast cancer patients with PD-L1 positive tumors.

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Roche is taking a glass-half-full attitude to IMpassion130 data • Source: Shutterstock

The excitement surrounding Roche's PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor Tecentriq (atezolizumab) as a potential treatment for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has subsided just a little despite promising data presented at ESMO from the Swiss group's closely watched IMpassion130 trial.

The late-breaking results from the study reported at the congress in Munich showed that a combination of Tecentriq and

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