New Drug Approved for Early Lung Cancer by Colleen Fleiss on April 15, 2021 at 10:31 PM
In China, AstraZeneca s drug Tagrisso has been approved for early stage lung cancer treatment.
China s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved the drug as an adjuvant therapy for early-stage lung cancer patients with a mutation of the EGFR gene, AstraZeneca said.
More than a third of the world s lung cancer patients are in China and among those with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), approximately 40 per cent have tumours with an EGFR mutation.
‘The approval was based on positive results from a Phase 3 trial, the company said, adding that Tagrisso is the only targeted medicine to show efficacy in the treatment of early-stage lung cancer in a global trial and the first such medicine approved in China.’
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