Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation’s Afatinib Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for Patients With EGFR Mutation Positive Lung Cancer in European Union

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INGELHEIM, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency has issued a positive opinion for afatinib – which has been submitted under the European Union brand name GIOTRIF®*. Afatinib is the first irreversible ErbB Family Blocker for the treatment of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor naive adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with activating EGFR mutation(s).

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