Tagrisso + chemo approved in China & Japan as 1st-line treatment for patients with EGFR-mutated advanced lung cancer
Dave Fredrickson, Executive Vice President, Oncology Business Unit, AstraZeneca, said: “Tagrisso with the addition of chemotherapy in FLAURA2 has not only shown unprecedented progression-free survival in the overall trial population, but also among Chinese patients, reducing the risk of disease progression by nearly half. This approval reinforces Tagrisso as a backbone therapy in EGFR-mutated lung cancer and acknowledges its important role, as monotherapy or with chemotherapy, in addressing the high prevalence of this disease in Asian countries and China, specifically.”
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