May 14th 2020
Ivosidenib induced a 63% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death versus placebo in previously treated patients with IDH1-mutant advanced cholangiocarcinoma, according to findings from the phase 3 ClarIDHy study published in the Lancet Oncology.
The European Commission has approved brentuximab vedotin for use in combination with chemotherapy for the frontline treatment of adult patients with systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma.
May 13th 2020
The FDA has issued a Refusal to File letter to Bristol Myers Squibb and bluebird bio, Inc., regarding their Biologics License Application (BLA) for the BCMA-directed CAR T-cell therapy decabtagene vicleucel.
The FDA has requested additional details before accepting a biologics license application for idecabtagene vicleucel for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma.
May 12th 2020
Tucatinib has been approved in Switzerland for use in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine for patients with previously treated metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.
Omidubicel met the primary end point of time to neutrophil engraftment in patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies undergoing a bone marrow transplant.
Adding isatuximab to carfilzomib and dexamethasone improved progression-free survival in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 IKEMA trial.
May 11th 2020
The FDA has approved myChoice CDx for use as a companion diagnostic to identify patients with advanced ovarian cancer with positive homologous recombination deficiency status, making them eligible to receive frontline maintenance treatment with olaparib plus bevacizumab.
The FDA has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
May 9th 2020
The FDA has approved selpercatinib (LOXO-292) for the treatment of patients with advanced RET fusion–positive non–small cell lung cancer, RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer, and RET fusion–positive thyroid cancer.
The anti–folate receptor alpha antibody-drug conjugate STRO-002 showed early clinical promise in patients with advanced ovarian cancer.
May 8th 2020
The FDA has approved olaparib plus bevacizumab for the maintenance treatment of patients with advanced ovarian cancer who are in complete or partial response to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy with bevacizumab.
The vaccine BVAC-C demonstrated durable antitumor activity in patients recurrent cervical cancer.
May 7th 2020
Trastuzumab emtansine has been approved in the UK for the adjuvant treatment of patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer.
A supplemental New Drug Application has been submitted to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare seeking approval of trastuzumab deruxtecan for the treatment of patients with HER2-positive metastatic gastric cancer
Adding the PD-1 inhibitor sintilimab injection to gemcitabine and platinum-based chemotherapy improved progression-free survival as a frontline treatment in squamous non–small cell lung cancer.
May 6th 2020
The FDA has approved capmatinib for the treatment of patients with non–small cell lung cancer.