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Interim data from Roche Group member Genentech’s first randomized study of a candidate treatment for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) failed to meet the clinical trial’s co-primary endpoint against the hard-to-treat disease.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved G1 Therapeutics’ Cosela (trilaciclib) for injection to decrease the damage to the immune system and bone marrow from chemotherapy.

AstraZeneca Plc’s Imfinzi was approved in the European Union to treat an aggressive form of lung cancer in previously untreated adult patients.

U.S. regulators approved AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi treatment for use against an aggressive type of lung cancer in previously untreated patients.

AstraZeneca reported that high-level data analysis from the company’s Phase III CASPIAN trial demonstrated that Imfinzi (durvalumab) in combination with standard-of-care chemotherapies confirmed a clinically meaningful and sustained overall survival benefit in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer treated in the first-line setting.

The European Medicine Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended EU approval of Roche’s cancer immunotherapy Tecentriq in combination with chemotherapy as an initial treatment of adults with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, the Basel, Switzerland-based company said.

Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG’s U.S. unit Genentech Inc. won approval for the immunotherapy Tecentriq for a tough-to-treat type of lung cancer.