AstraZeneca's Top-Selling Cancer Drug Tagrisso Receives FDA Green Light For Another Lung Cancer Indication

Thursday, the FDA approved AstraZeneca Plc’s (NASDAQ:AZN) Tagrisso (osimertinib)​ for adult patients with unresectable, Stage III epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated (EGFRm) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease has not progressed during or following concurrent or sequential platinum-based chemoradiation therapy (CRT). 

Tagrisso is indicated for patients with exon 19 deletions or exon 21 (L858R) mutations.

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Tagrisso is AstraZeneca’s top-selling cancer drug, and in the second quarter of 2024, it generated around $1.6 billion in sales.

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