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Gilead’s Trodelvy Basks In TROPiCS With FDA Breast Cancer Nod

Company Lays Out Development Strategy In Q4 Earnings

 
• By Alaric DeArment

Gilead’s big push into oncology bore more fruit with the FDA approval of Trodelvy based on the TROPiCS-02 trial. More development catalysts lie ahead for 2023, company said in its earnings.

Gilead announced the approval of Trodelvy for HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer • Source: Shutterstock

The ink was barely dry on Gilead Sciences, Inc.’s latest earnings report when the company announced another important milestone, the US Food and Drug Administration approval of Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) based on survival data from the closely watched TROPiCS-02 trial in pretreated HR-positive/HER-negative metastatic breast cancer (HR+/HER2- mBC). The nod is the latest victory the drug maker has chalked up thanks to the large R&D program it also highlighted in its earnings report.

Gilead announced on 3 February the approval of Trodelvy for HR+/HER2 mBC in patients who have received endocrine-based therapy and...

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