Roche's Tecen­triq ex­cels in an­oth­er lung can­cer study

Months af­ter se­cur­ing FDA ap­proval for Tecen­triq as a first line of de­fense — in com­bi­na­tion with chemother­a­py — in ex­ten­sive-stage small-cell lung can­cer pa­tients, Roche on Thurs­day said the im­munother­a­py helped cer­tain treat­ment-naive pa­tients with ad­vanced non-small cell lung can­cer (NSCLC) live longer ver­sus chemother­a­py, in a piv­otal study.

The 572-pa­tient tri­al, called IM­pow­er110, test­ed Tecen­triq monother­a­py against chemother­a­py (cis­platin or car­bo­platin and peme­trexed or gem­c­itabine) in pa­tients with ad­vanced non-squa­mous and squa­mous non-small cell lung can­cer in pa­tients with­out ALK or EGFR mu­ta­tions.

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