AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) is advancing its ambition to eliminate cancer as a cause of death and transform outcomes for people living with rare diseases with new data across its diverse, industry-leading portfolio and pipeline at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, May 29 to June 2.
More than 85 abstracts will feature 10 approved and 13 potential new medicines from the Company, including 25 oral presentations. Highlights include:
• EMERALD-3: Phase III trial of IMFINZI® (durvalumab) in combination with IMJUDO® (tremelimumab-actl), with or without lenvatinib, and transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) eligible for embolization (Oral Abstract #LBA4000).
• CARES: Phase III clinical program of anselamimab, a potential first-in-class anti-fibril therapy from Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, in newly diagnosed patients with light chain (AL) amyloidosis receiving standard of care for underlying plasma cell dyscrasia, including results from a prespecified subgroup analysis based on involved kappa (?) or lambda (?) free light chain (Oral Abstract #7501).
• SERENA-6: Final progression-free survival 2 (PFS2) results and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) clearance data linked to longer-term efficacy outcomes from the SERENA-6 Phase III trial of camizestrant in combination with widely approved cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitors in the 1st-line treatment of patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer whose tumors have an emergent ESR1 mutation (Oral Abstract #LBA1007).
AZN shares kicked off Friday lower by 94 cents to $188.81.
