CHMP Endorses AstraZeneca's Tagrisso for Expanded Use in NSCLC

AstraZeneca (AZN) announced that the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (“CHMP”) recommended approving its blockbuster cancer drug Tagrisso (osimertinib) for expanded use across a new setting in the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) setting.The CHMP has recommended approving Tagrisso for treating adult patients with locally advanced, unresectable NSCLC with EGFR exon 19 deletions (ex19del) or exon 21 L858R substitution (L858R) mutations, whose disease has not progressed during or followin ...