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  • Merck’s Patritumab Deruxtecan shows significant improvement in progression-free survival over doublet chemotherapy for advanced EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer in Phase 3 HERTHENA-Lung02 trial.

Tue Sep 17 09:02:07 -2024 UTC– Merck & Co. announced that Patritumab Deruxtecan showed significant progress in patients with advanced EGFR-mutated lung cancer in a Phase 3 trial.

Merck & Co. announced that its new drug, Patritumab Deruxtecan, has shown significant improvement in treating patients with advanced lung cancer. This was observed in a large Phase 3 clinical trial focused on patients with a specific type of lung cancer that has a mutation in the EGFR gene. The drug outperformed the current standard chemotherapy in helping patients live longer without their disease worsening.

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