
BeiGene lines up its first shot at cracking the megablockbuster PD-1 market for lung cancer. But can they overcome underdog status?
BeiGene took another big step towards challenging Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca and some other Big Pharma heavyweights for a share of the lucrative lung cancer market for the PD-(L)1s racking up billions in annual revenue.
The China-based biotech $BGNE run by CEO John Oyler posted positive top-line progression-free survival results for their pivotal Chinese study on their PD-1 antibody tislelizumab combined with chemo for squamous non-small cell lung cancer in frontline cases. Squamous NSCLC accounts for about 30% of the overall lung cancer market.
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