Sanofi Ends Lung Cancer Drug Study After Trial Failure

A logo at the Sanofi SA campus in the Gentilly district of Paris.

Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg
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Sanofi will stop developing an experimental lung cancer medicine after it failed to impress in a late-stage trial.

The French drugmaker is terminating the program for tusamitamab ravtansine, an antibody-based treatment that failed to outperform a chemotherapy in treating some patients with metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.