AstraZeneca/Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu To Get Lung Cancer Label For EU

The European Medicines Agency has recommended new uses for 11 approved medicines, including an antibody drug conjugate for treating advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

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Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan), Daiichi Sankyo/AstraZeneca’s HER2-directed antibody drug conjugate, is on track to becoming approved in the EU for an expanded indication which will include treating patients with HER2-mutant advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

The drug is already approved in the EU for certain types of breast and gastric cancers. The European Medicines Agency’s...

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