Roche's Tecentriq notches win in breast cancer with U.S. approval

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ZURICH - Roche won U.S. approval on Friday of its immunotherapy Tecentriq to treat a significant number of patients with triple-negative breast cancer, a development hailed by doctors as a promising advance in fighting the aggressive disease.

Roche’s Tecentriq has fallen well behind immunotherapies Keytruda from Merck and Opdivo from Bristol-Myers Squibb in treatment areas such as lung cancer. It hopes beating the two rival therapies in less common diseases like triple-negative breast cancer will help its medicine’s revenue accelerate. More than 250,000 cases of invasive breast cancer are diagnosed annually in the United States, some 15 percent of which are triple-negative.

 

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