As­traZeneca push­es back OS read­out on MYS­TIC to H2; An­thera shares oblit­er­at­ed in re­peat PhI­II flop

→ The much-an­tic­i­pat­ed over­all sur­vival da­ta of As­traZeneca’s $AZN piv­otal lung can­cer tri­al will be de­liv­ered lat­er than ex­pect­ed, the UK drug­mak­er an­nounced this morn­ing. In­vestors will now have to wait un­til the sec­ond half of 2018 for the fi­nal analy­sis of Imfinzi’s im­pact on OS, in­stead of the first half. The re­sults from the MYS­TIC tri­al re­mains a ma­jor cat­a­lyst af­ter the check­point in­hibitor failed to meet the pri­ma­ry end­point of pro­gres­sion-free sur­vival (PFS), send­ing a shock wave to As­traZeneca’s stock prices last Ju­ly. The tri­al tests Imfinzi both as a monother­a­py and in com­bi­na­tion with treme­li­mum­ab against chemother­a­py in first-line non-small cell lung can­cer, an all-im­por­tant are­na in the bat­tle for check­point drug dom­i­nance.

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