SABCS: Novartis touts Kisqali's 5-year breast cancer survival, advantage over Pfizer's Ibrance

SABCS: Novartis touts Kisqali's 5-year breast cancer survival, advantage over Pfizer's Ibrance

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Fierce Pharma
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Novartis already knew that adding Kisqali to endocrine therapy can help premenopausal patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer live longer. Now, it knows exactly how long.

Kisqali plus endocrine therapy helped pre- and perimenopausal women with HR+/HER2- disease live a median 58.7 months, according to phase 3 data presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium's (SABCS') virtual annual meeting. That’s compared with 48 months for endocrine therapy alone, translating to a 24% reduction in the risk of death for the Kisqali regimen.