AstraZeneca Plc’s (AZN) and Merck Co.’s (MRK) Lynparza drug has received a green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with advanced prostate cancer.The FDA approval was awarded following results from a Phase III trial, which found that the Lynparza drug treatment reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 66%.Prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer type in men and despite an increase in the number of available therapies for men suffering from the disease, five-year survival remains low.Lynparza is a first-in-class PARP inhibitor, which is a targeted treatment to potentially …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
