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Andreas Rimner, MD, on the PACIFIC Trial: Durvalumab for Stage III NSCLC

2019 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Andreas Rimner, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses study findings showing that, for patients with stage III non–small cell lung cancer, durvalumab reduced the rate of and time to disease progression vs placebo and also reduced the number of new distant lesions (Abstract LBA6).



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