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AstraZeneca Advances In Early Stage Lung Cancer With Imfinzi And Tagrisso

Pursuing Leaders With Double Neoadjuvant/Adjuvant Approach

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi is playing catch-up to other PD1/L1 targeting agents in neoadjuvant/adjuvant NSCLC with new data from AEGEAN, but new survival data for Tagrisso from ADAURA consolidate its dominance in early-stage EGFR positive disease.

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New pivotal trial data suggest AstraZeneca will soon be able to compete with PD-1/L1 inhibitor leaders in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment, but whether its perioperative approach of drug treatment before and after surgery will outshine rivals is yet to be seen.

The company has just unveiled the positive high-level results from a planned interim analysis from the AEGEAN study, which tested...

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