ASCO 2024: Pfizer basks in ‘unprecedented’ Lorbrena results

31 May 2024

US pharma giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) was trading more than 1% higher during Friday morning’s New York activity.

The company announced longer-term follow-up results from the Phase III CROWN trial of Lorbrena (lorlatinib), a third-generation anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor available in Europe under the brand name Lorqivua, versus Xalkori (crizotinib) in previously-untreated, ALK-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

These data are being presented in an oral presentation at the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago and have been simultaneously published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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