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ASCO 2020: Roche Highlights TIGIT As Tecentriq Bags Another Approval

FDA Okays Practice-Changing Treatment For Liver Cancer

 
• By Kevin Grogan

The Swiss major focused almost exclusively on the benefits of the combination of Tecentriq and its TIGIT inhibitor tiragolumab at ASCO but also celebrated the approval of a Tecentriq/Avastin combo for hepatocellular carcinoma.

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Liver cancer will be an important new indication for Tecentriq • Source: Shutterstock

As the virtual doors opened on the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting, Roche's cancer franchise received a huge boost with a second US approval in less than a fortnight for its checkpoint inhibitor Tecentriq as a first-line treatment for the most common form of liver cancer.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the PD-L1 inhibitor Tecentriq (atezolizumab) in combination with Roche's anti-VEGF blockbuster Avastin (bevacizumab) for people with unresectable or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have not received prior systemic therapy

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