Ferdinandos Skoulidis, MD, PhD

Professor of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Next-generation KRAS drug extends survival in head-to-head lung cancer trial

Lead principal investigator for the Krascendo 1 trial

Five years after the first KRAS inhibitor reached the market, a next-generation drug just beat the existing ones head-to-head. The Phase III Krascendo 1 trial found divarasib cut the risk of death by 44% and nearly doubled response rates in patients with previously treated KRAS G12C-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

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