Junshi Biosciences announced that the Phase III clinical trial the Chinese pharmaceutical company is conducting alongside California-based Coherus BioSciences on a potential non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) drug is showing positive preliminary results. 

The U.S. FDA approved an expanded label for Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda as monotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer who are not candidates for surgical resection or definitive chemoradiation, or metastatic NSCLC, and whose tumors express PD-L1 as determined by an FDA-approved test, with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.