Drugs in the Pipeline
A PDUFA target date of November 24, 2022 has been set for the application.
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To prove clinical benefit, the FDA requires manufacturers to conduct confirmatory trials, also known as a phase 4 studies.
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Lorbrena is a third generation ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
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Using a blood sample, the test is able to analyze more than 300 cancer-associated genes for alterations.
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The FDA has approved Cyramza (ramucirumab; Lilly) in combination with erlotinib, for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 19 deletions or exon 21 (L858R) substitution mutations.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the combination of Opdivo (nivolumab; Bristol Myers Squibb) plus Yervoy (ipilimumab; Bristol Myers Squibb) and 2 cycles of platinum-doublet chemotherapy, for the first-line treatment of adult patients with metastatic or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.
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The FDA has approved the combination of Opdivo (nivolumab) plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) for the first-line treatment of adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors express PD-L1 (≥1%) as determined by an FDA-approved test, with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.
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The approval was based on data from the CASPIAN study, an active-controlled, open-label trial that investigated the combination of durvalumab plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone.
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The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 6 to 5 that ramucirumab (Cyramza; Lilly) plus erlotinib demonstrated a favorable benefit/risk profile for patients with untreated metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The vote was based on data from the phase 3 RELAY study (N=449), which evaluated…
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Keytruda (pembrolizumab; Merck) for the treatment of patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-unresponsive, high-risk, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with carcinoma in situ (CIS) with or without papillary tumors who are ineligible for or have elected not to undergo cystectomy.