AstraZeneca's Early-Stage Lung Cancer Tagrisso Drug Approved in China
14 April 2021 - 4:48PM
Dow Jones News
By Sabela Ojea
AstraZeneca PLC said Wednesday that its Tagrisso medicine has
been approved in China for the treatment of early lung cancer.
The U.K.-based pharmaceutical giant said Tagrisso is the first
such drug to have received approval in China, as well as the only
one to have shown efficacy against the disease in a global
trial.
The FTSE 100 company added that the approval is based on the
positive results coming from the Adaura Phase 3 trial, where
Tagrisso was proven to reduce the risk of disease recurrence or
death by 80%.
Write to Sabela Ojea at sabela.ojea@wsj.com; @sabelaojeaguix
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April 14, 2021 02:33 ET (06:33 GMT)
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