China approves Roche’s Tecentriq
Roche’s lung cancer immunotherapy is making its way into China. The National Medical Products Administration approved atezolizumab, marketed as Tecentriq, for the treatment of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) in combination with chemotherapy.
The immunotherapy will make its way into the world’s second largest pharmaceutical market after gaining approvals for the same indication from the Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency last year. The Swiss drug maker is working closely with its local partners in China and is expecting to launch Tecentriq “in the following months,” a Roche spokesman told STAT.
Tecentriq, an immune checkpoint inhibitor that targets the PD-L1 protein on tumor cells, is the second anti-PD-L1 drug to enter China after AstraZeneca’s lung cancer immunotherapy Imfinzi beat it to the market in December last year. However, Imfinzi will not compete directly with Tecentriq as it is indicated for patients with unresectable stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the more common form of lung cancer.
The immunotherapy will make its way into the world’s second largest pharmaceutical market after gaining approvals for the same indication from the Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency last year. The Swiss drug maker is working closely with its local partners in China and is expecting to launch Tecentriq “in the following months,” a Roche spokesman told STAT.
Tecentriq, an immune checkpoint inhibitor that targets the PD-L1 protein on tumor cells, is the second anti-PD-L1 drug to enter China after AstraZeneca’s lung cancer immunotherapy Imfinzi beat it to the market in December last year. However, Imfinzi will not compete directly with Tecentriq as it is indicated for patients with unresectable stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the more common form of lung cancer.
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