Experimental breast cancer drugs from Pfizer and Eli Lilly slowed or halted growth of advanced tumors in studies, potentially adding a new treatment option for patients and top-selling therapies for the companies.
Pfizer’s palbociclib doubled to 20.2 months the time in which patients’ advanced breast cancer didn’t progress, the drugmaker said today. In an unrelated study, Lilly’s drug, bemaciclib, aided 61 percent of patients with metastatic, hormone-sensitive breast cancer, meaning the size of their tumors shrunk by 30 percent or didn’t increase for 24 weeks.