Best in class? Eli Lil­ly claims a lead role awaits its CDK 4/6 drug abe­maci­clib af­ter PhI­II suc­cess

The phar­ma gi­ant says their drug abe­maci­clib gar­nered promis­ing da­ta in an in­ter­im analy­sis of MONARCH-3, a breast can­cer tri­al that matched their drug with ei­ther of two aro­matase in­hibitors — letro­zole or anas­tro­zole — against on­ly the aro­matase in­hibitor. The full da­ta will be rolled out lat­er, with Lil­ly lim­it­ing it­self to the boast that their drug has the po­ten­tial to be the best-in-class ther­a­py in the like­ly three-way strug­gle to come.

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