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AstraZeneca Lifted By Tagrisso Combo Lung Cancer Data

Shows Improvement Over Monotherapy

 
• By Kevin Grogan

Data from the FLAURA2 trial suggest AstraZeneca could soon be able to expand use of Tagrisso in the first-line setting, widening the gap over Johnson & Johnson’s Rybrevant.

Sodertalje, Sweden - April 27, 2014: Three purple flags with the logo for Atrazeneca flying in the wind on top of the flagpoles against the blue sky.
• Source: AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca PLC's aim of securing the market-leading position of its biggest seller Tagrisso has received a major boost with the release of late-stage data demonstrating the additional benefit of combining the drug with chemotherapy for lung cancer patients.

The UK major has announced positive high-level results from the FLAURA2 Phase III trial which showed that Tagrisso (osimertinib) in...

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