The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting is running from April 7-13 in New Orleans, with hundreds of presentations on cutting-edge cancer research. The presentations run the gamut from preclinical studies to late-stage clinical trials. BioSpace looks at some of the preclinical and early-stage studies presented.
AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso Continues to Make Strides in Phase III Lung Cancer Trial
Analysis, Blockbusters, Central Nervous System, Clinical Data, Clinical Trials, Disease-Free Survival (DFS), Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Mutated (EGFRm) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), R&D, TherapeuticsAstraZeneca released new results from the company’s ADAURA Phase III trial showing that Tagrisso (osimertinib) demonstrated clinically meaningful improvement in central nervous system disease-free survival in the adjuvant treatment of patients with early-stage epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), after complete tumor resection.