Wider Than AZ’s PACIFIC – Novartis Has Broad NSCLC Plans For Canakinumab
Executive Summary
Novartis is taking its unexpected CANTOS cancer findings for canakinumab and running with them to Phase III in an adjuvant lung cancer setting that is broader that AstraZeneca's PACIFIC study.
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