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Gilead says Trodelvy fails to meet primary goal in 2nd-line lung cancer trial

(Reuters) -Gilead Sciences said on Monday its drug, Trodelvy, failed to significantly improve survival for previously treated patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a late-stage study, sending its shares down more than 10%. The California-based drugmaker was testing Trodelvy, which belongs to a class of treatments known as antibody drug conjugates, in patients with both squamous and non-squamous NSCLC - the most common type of lung cancer. Roughly 230,000 adults in the United States were estimated to be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2023, and NSCLC accounts for 81% of all those diagnoses, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology. ....

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