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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for BI 1482694, which is an investigational third-generation, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), mutant-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Two-year event-free survival increased from 52% with conventional therapy to 65% with the addition of rituximab among patients with newly diagnosed, CD20-positive Philadelphia (Ph)-chromosome negative B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia, according to results from a phase III trial.