By Sabela Ojea

AstraZeneca PLC said Thursday that its Lynparza drug has been approved in China to treat advanced prostate cancer.

The pharmaceutical giant said the approval by China's National Medical Products Administration was based on a subgroup analysis of the profound phase 3 trial.

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