As­traZeneca gets a green light on Imfinzi for small-cell lung can­cer — set­ting the stage for a bat­tle with Roche's Tecen­triq

The stan­dard-of-care for small-cell lung can­cer (SCLC) for decades was plat­inum-based chemother­a­py, but that par­a­digm shift­ed in 2018, with the ap­proval of Bris­tol My­ers Squibb’s check­point in­hibitor Op­di­vo in the sec­ond-line set­ting. Since then, a slate of im­munother­a­pies have se­cured SCLC ap­provals, and the lat­est is As­traZeneca’s flag­ship Imfinzi, which was ap­proved on Mon­day in com­bi­na­tion with stan­dard chemother­a­py as the first line of de­fense in ex­ten­sive-stage SCLC pa­tients.

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