AstraZeneca redefining lung, metastatic breast cancer treatment 

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Washington – AstraZeneca advances its ambition to redefine cancer care with new data across its industry-leading portfolio and pipeline at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, 31 May to 4 June 2024. More than 100 abstracts will feature 25 approved and potential new medicines across the Company’s diverse oncology portfolio and pipeline, including two late-breaking plenary presentations, …

Imfinzi plus chemotherapy doubled overall survival rate

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London – Updated exploratory results from the TOPAZ-1 Phase III trial showed AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) in combination with standard-of-care chemotherapy demonstrated a clinically meaningful long-term overall survival (OS) benefit at three years for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC). These results from TOPAZ-1, which are the longest survival follow-up ever reported for a global, randomised Phase III trial in this …