AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi Fails Again In Head And Neck Cancer

KESTREL Follows EAGLE To Crash Land

The Phase III KESTREL study evaluating Imfinzi missed its primary overall survival benefit and a key secondary outcome in first-line recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.    

Kestral Fails to Take Flight in Head & Neck Cancer • Source: Shutterstock

AstraZeneca PLC’s PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor Imfinzi has met with another Phase III failure in head and neck cancer both as a monotherapy and in combination with the company’s investigational product tremelimumab, in a further blow to the combination.

The KESTREL study showed Imfinzi (durvalumab) missed the primary endpoint of improving overall survival (OS) versus the EXTREME treatment regimen...

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