Tagrisso recommended for approval in the EU by CHMP for patients with unresectable EGFR-mutated lung cancer
Recommendation based on LAURA Phase III trial results which showed Tagrisso extended median progression-free survival to more than three years.AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso (osimertinib) has been recommended for approval in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced, unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumours have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 19 deletions or exon 21 (L858R) substitution mutations and whose disease has not progressed during or following platinum-based chemoradiation therapy (CRT). The Committee for