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New breast cancer drug data a boost for Eli Lilly
Adding its medicine abemaciclib to standard therapy reduces risk of disease progression by 46%; its efficacy is seen as comparable to that of rival drugs from Pfizer, Novartis
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Sun, Sep 10, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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ELI Lilly staked its claim for a slice of sales in a new class of breast cancer drugs on Sunday as clinical data showed adding its medicine abemaciclib to standard therapy reduced the risk of disease progression by 46 per cent.
Experts at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) congress in Madrid said the experimental drug's efficacy was comparable to that of rival drugs from Pfizer and Novartis already on the market.
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