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Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu Beats Kadcyla in 2nd-Line Breast Cancer
Daiichi Sankyo said on August 9 that its antibody drug conjugate (ADC) Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) demonstrated superiority over Chugai Pharmaceutical’s ADC rival Kadcyla (trastuzumab emtansine) in a head-to-head PIII study for the second-line treatment of HER2-positive unresectable/metastatic breast cancer. According…
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