Chugai Pharmaceutical’s ALK inhibitor Alecensa (alectinib) reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 63% versus Pfizer’s Xalkori (crizotinib) in a Japan PIII study, which assessed the agents in a first-line setting for ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC),…
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