Drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday said that its experimental breast cancer treatment improved patient survival without the disease getting worse in a study, a positive outcome in the development of the therapy key to the company's pipeline.

The partners are pushing to expand Enhertu’s list of indications beyond its standing uses in breast, lung and gastric cancers.

Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has shown clinically meaningful 'improvement' in the DESTINY-Gastric04 Phase III trial, regarding the primary endpoint of overall survival (OS) in individuals with gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma.

The European Union's health regulator on Friday backed AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo's drug Enhertu as a breast cancer treatment for patients who received endocrine therapy but are not suitable for additional hormone treatments.

AstraZeneca has reported positive outcomes from a planned interim analysis of the double-blind Phase III SERENA-6 trial of camizestrant plus a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitor as first-line treatment of individuals with hormone receptor (HR)-positive,

In the Phase III SERENA-6 trial, camizestrant—in combination with CDK-inhibitors—beat out current standard-of-care treatments in terms of progression-free survival, according to AstraZeneca.

Pharmaceuticals major AstraZeneca said on Wednesday that its experimental treatment, camizestrant, improved survival in patients with an advanced form of breast cancer without the disease getting worse in a late-stage clinical trial.

AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) and Daiichi Sankyo said on Friday that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) endorsed ENHERTU for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. Issuing a positive recommendation, EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)  recommended the marketing authorization for ENHERTUas a monotherapy for the treatment of