Lapse of Australian provisional registration for Tecentriq in mTNBC

22 March 2023

On 22 March 2023, the provisional registration of Tecentriq (atezolizumab) for the treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC) will lapse, meaning that Tecentriq will no longer be approved for this use, Australian medicines regulator the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) announced today.

There are no changes to the other approved indications of Tecentriq, which is marketed by the local subsidiary of Swiss pharma giant Roche (ROG: SIX),

The decision to provisionally approve Tecentriq for mTNBC was based on promising results from the IMpassion 130 study. It was expected that data from the IMpassion 131 study would confirm the results.

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