European Committee Recommends Approval of Tecentriq-Chemo Combination in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

NEW YORK – Roche said today that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of a combination of atezolizumab (Roche's Tecentriq) plus chemotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer whose tumors have PD-L1 expression greater than a percent and who have not previously received chemotherapy for metastatic disease.