OCTOBER 4, 2022

First Immunotherapy Regimen for Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer Approved

The FDA approved durvalumab (Imfinzi, AstraZeneca) for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer (BTC) in combination with chemotherapy (gemcitabine [Gemzar, Eli Lilly] plus cisplatin).

The approval was based on the results from the TOPAZ-1 phase 3 trial. In an interim analysis, durvalumab plus chemotherapy reduced the risk for death by 20% compared with chemotherapy alone (hazard ratio [HR], 0.80; 95% CI, 0.66-0.97; P=0.021). An estimated one in