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The debut of AstraZeneca’s PD-L1 inhibitor Imfinzi (durvalumab) will bring a bigger impact to the Stage III lung cancer space than what leading PD-1 products have done for Stage IV cancer, Prof. Kazuhiko Nakagawa, an oncologist at Kinki University, believes.…
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