Survival Data Boost Lilly & Novartis’s CDK4/6 Assault On Pfizer’s Ibrance In Metastatic Breast Cancer
Executive Summary
Pfizer’s dominance of the CDK4/6 inhibitor market will come under renewed pressure as the MONALEESA-3 and MONARCH-2 studies for Novartis’s Kisqali and Lilly’s Verzenio presented at ESMO confirmed their survival benefits in advanced hormone-receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. The data firmly push the drug class into front-line advanced setting in these patients.
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