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Merck, Daiichi withdraw US application for ‘guided missile’ cancer drug

By Thomson Reuters May 29, 2025 | 6:14 AM

(Reuters) -Merck and Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo said on Thursday they have withdrawn the U.S. application for an experimental lung cancer treatment, which belongs to a lucrative class of cancer therapies that work like “guided missiles”.

(Reporting by Mariam Sunny in Bengaluru; Editing by Shreya Biswas)