Roche builds confidence in I-O portfolio with positive kidney cancer data

12 December 2017
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Swiss oncology giant Roche (ROG: SIX) has revealed positive results from the Phase III IMmotion151 study of Tecentriq (atezolizumab) and Avastin (bevacizumab) in kidney cancer.

The trial met its co-primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS), compared with treatment with Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE) Sutent (sunitinib), for people whose disease expressed PD-L1.

The firm said that treatment with the cocktail in the first-line setting resulted in an improvement in investigator-assessed PFS, for people who have advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

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