BioPharma Dive January 21, 2025
Jonathan Gardner

The clearance of Datroway comes months after the companies narrowed approval plans in lung cancer and opens up a market opportunity analysts estimate to be worth about $500 million annually.

Dive Brief:

  • The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Datroway for use in people with a common type of breast cancer that has advanced despite two earlier lines of treatment.
  • Datroway, previously known as datopotamab deruxtecan or dato dxd, is cleared for people whose breast tumors are HR-positive and HER2-negative, where in testing it was associated with a 37% reduction in the risk of progression or death compared to chemotherapy. Datroway will compete in that setting with Gilead Sciences’ Trodelvy, which gained a similar...

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