Company: AZN
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001654954-25-002166
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Company: ASTRAZENECA PLC
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 6-K
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 anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangements. In this regimen, patients are treated with Imfinzi in combination with neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgery and as adjuvant monotherapy after surgery.

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) based its positive opinion on results from the pivotal AEGEAN trial, which were published in The New England Journal of Medicine .

Results from a planned interim analysis of event-free survival (EFS) showed a statistically significant and clinically meaningful 32% reduction in the risk of recurrence, progression events or death versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone in patients treated with the Imfinzi -based perioperative regimen (32% data maturity; EFS hazard ratio [HR] 0.68; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.53-0.88; p=0.003902). In a final analysis of pathologic complete response (pCR), treatment with Imfinzi plus neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgery resulted in a pCR rate of 17.2% versus 4.3% for patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone (difference in pCR 13.0%; 95% CI 8.7-17.6).

Additionally, interim overall survival (OS) results presented at the 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer showed a favourable trend with the Imfinzi- based perioperative regimen (35% data maturity; median OS: not reached [NR] versus 53.2 months; HR=0.89; 95% CI 0.70-1.14). The OS data were not tested for statistical significance at this interim analysis and will continue to be assessed as a key secondary endpoint at final analysis.

Professor Martin Reck, Head of the Department of Thoracic Oncology at the Lung Clinic Grosshansdorf, Germany, member of the AEGEAN Steering Committee and investigator in the trial, said: "Adding perioperative durvalumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy significantly improved outcomes for patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer, who experience high rates of recurrence and poor outcomes. Today's recommendation marks an important step towards patients and their clinicians in Europe gaining access to an innovative treatment that should become a backbone combination approach in this curative-intent setting."

Susan Galbraith, Executive Vice President, Oncology Haematology R&D, AstraZeneca, said: "This recommendation highlights