AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi demonstrated statistically significant improvement

Positive high-level results from the NIAGARA Phase III trial showed AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi in combination with chemotherapy demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in the primary endpoint of event-free survival and the key secondary endpoint of overall survival versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Imfinzi was generally well-tolerated and no new safety concerns were observed in either the neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting. The safety profile of Imfinzi and neoadjuvant chemotherapy was consistent with the known profile of the individual medicines. The addition of Imfinzi did not increase the discontinuation rate due to adverse events and did not compromise patients’ ability to complete surgery compared to neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone.