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AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso Plus Chemotherapy Receives Health Canada’s Approval to Treat Advanced Lung Cancer
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- Health Canada has approved Tagrisso + pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy as a 1L treatment of locally advanced or metastatic EGFRm NSCLC, based on P-III (FLAURA2) study
- The P-III (FLAURA2) study of Tagrisso (80mg, oral, QD) + CT [pemetrexed (500mg/m^2) + cisplatin (75mg/m^2) or carboplatin (AUC5), Q3W] followed by Tagrisso with pemetrexed maintenance (Q3W) in locally advanced (Stage IIIB-IIIC) or metastatic (Stage IV) EGFRm NSCLC patients (n=557)
- Study depicted 38% PFS & 25.5mos. vs 16.7mos. mPFS as per investigator evaluation. OS evaluation is underway
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