AstraZeneca Buoyed as Imfinzi Cuts Lung Cancer Deaths by a Third

Excerpt from Reuters:

“AstraZeneca’s immunotherapy drug Imfinzi cut the risk of death in patients with mid-stage lung cancer by nearly a third in a closely watched clinical study, reinforcing the case for using the drug in earlier disease.

“The encouraging overall survival data boosts prospects for a medicine that was approved this week in Europe and has already had a promising U.S. commercial launch, based on its ability to slow disease progression.”

Go to full article published by Reuters on Sep 25, 2018.

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