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AstraZeneca Looks To Muscle In On BMS-Dominated Neoadjuvant NSCLC Setting

 
• By Alaric DeArment

Without disclosing data, the company reported positive pathological complete response data from the AEGEAN study of its PD-L1 inhibitor Imfinzi in neoadjuvant NSCLC, where BMS’s Opdivo won approval in March.

AstraZeneca announced Phase III results from the AEGEAN trial of Imfinzi in neoadjuvant NSCLC • Source: Shutterstock

Although AstraZeneca PLC wasn’t one of the first PD-1/LI sponsors to make it to market, new Phase III data may position the company’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) to be an early entrant for neoadjuvant treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a space where Bristol Myers Squibb Company’s PD-1 inhibitor Opdivo (nivolumab) had the distinction of winning US Food and Drug Administration approval earlier this year and where other PD-1/L1 players are hoping to compete as well. 

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