Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) has scored a new approval in China, this time for its cancer immunotherapy Imfinzi (durvalumab).
China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved the anti-PDL1 antibody for the treatment of patients with unresectable, Stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease has not progressed following concurrent platinum-based chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
This comes just a week after the approval of Lynparza (olaparib) in ovarian cancer in China and is further evidence of the company’s drive to crack the Chinese market.
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