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Gilead’s Trodelvy May Have Safety Edge Due To Lack Of Concerning Lung Toxicity

 
• By Alaric DeArment

Executives said there had been no cases of interstitial lung disease, while ILD – including fatal events – has become a potential problem for AstraZeneca/Daiichi Sankyo’s dato-DXd.

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Gilead Sciences, Inc. has the opportunity to differentiate Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) from a competing antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), AstraZeneca PLC and Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.’s datopotamab deruxtecan (dato-DXd), in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) given Trodelvy’s apparent lack of issues with interstitial lung disease (ILD), comments on an analyst call suggest.

Foster City, CA-based Gilead announced its second quarter earnings on 3 August, including an update on its pipeline development. The company had presented quarterly revenues that increased by 5%, or by 11% excluding the COVID-19 antiviral Veklury (remdesivir), indicating declines in Veklury sales aren’t weighing on overall sales the way they had been and that the core businesses are growing

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