Media Alert: Pivotal Phase III results for afatinib* in lung cancer to be presented at ASCO 2012
Also announced - new head-to-head trials, LUX-Lung 7 and LUX-Lung 8, initiated to further evaluate afatinib in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
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Highly anticipated results from LUX-Lung 3, the pivotal Phase III lung cancer trial investigating Boehringer Ingelheim's front running oncology investigational compound, the ErbB Family Blocker afatinib, in patients with EGFR mutations, will be presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago from 1 - 5 June 2012. LUX-Lung 3, which compares afatinib to standard platinum based"......