AFMD - Why Affimed Shares Are Soaring | Benzinga
Affimed N.V. (NASDAQ:AFMD) shares are trading higher Monday after the company announced additional follow-up data from the on-going AFM24-102 study in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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Affimed said in 17 EGFR wild-type (EGFRwt) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who failed chemotherapy and PD-1/PD-L1, AFM24 plus atezolizumab achieved four objective responses, three of four responses were ongoing for more than 7 months and progression free survival (PFS) was 5.9 months.
“The efficacy of the combination of AFM24 and atezolizumab in these heavily pretreated NSCLC patients is encouraging and supports our hypothesis of a synergistic activity of AFM24 with PD-1/PD-L1 blockade. We believe the durability of the responses in EGFRwt tumors is ...