Lung Cancer
Sep 13, 2022
Amgen Announced the Result of its CodeBreak-200 Trial; FDA Clears Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Deucravacitinib; BioNTech’s Amplified CAR-T Therapy; TIL Therapy Improves on Yervoy in Melanoma; GSK’s Daprodustat will have to face FDA Advisory Committee; Breakthrough Therapy Status to Pfizer’s Group B Strep Vaccine; EU Approves Gilead’ Tecartus; Gilead’ Trodelvy Results in TROPiCs-02 Trial
Amgen Reveals the Top-line Result of its CodeBreak-200 trial of Lumakras in Lung Cancer The top-line result of Amgen's CodeBreak-200 trial of Lumakras in lung cancer was presented in abstract form at ESMO two weeks ago, showing a 34% improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) compared to chemotherapy. The fu...
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Sep 06, 2022
AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi for Biliary Tract Cancer; FDA Clears Boehringer’s Spesolimab; Novo Nordisk to Acquire Forma Therapeutics; Sanofi’s Xenpozyme Approved for ASMD; Another FDA Approval to Azurity’s Konvomep; Amgen’s Lumakras Trial Results; FDA Grants Priority Review to Sanofi & Sobi’s efanesoctocog alfa; Neurocrine Bio to Takeover UK Biotech Diurnal
FDA Approves AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi for Biliary Tract Cancer Imfinzi, a checkpoint inhibitor developed by AstraZeneca, has been approved by the FDA as the first immunotherapy for biliary tract cancer (BTC), a rare and aggressive form of cancer with few treatment options. Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been approved by ...
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Jul 05, 2022
AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi Shows Positive Results; Novartis Announces Results of Tislelizumab; FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Evorpacept; EU Approves Sanofi’s Xenpozyme; Bayer’s Kerendia Approves in China; FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Talquetamab; FDA Puts Clinical Hold on Sanofi’s Tolebrutinib; FDA Rejects Spero’s Tebipenem
FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Evorpacept for AML ALX Oncology Holdings announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had granted orphan drug designation to Evorpacept, a next-generation CD47 blocker, for treating patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is an agg...
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Apr 19, 2022
GSK Acquires Sierra Oncology; BriaCell’s Targeted Breast Cancer Immunotherapy; Merck’s Tepmetko; Gilead’s Magrolimab for MDS and AML; Eli Lilly’s Retevmo; Merck’s Pneumococcal Vaccine; FDA Approves Bevacizumab Biosimilar; Halozyme to Acquire Antares Pharma
GSK Acquires Sierra Oncology for USD 1.9 Billion GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy Sierra Oncology and its lead drug assets, momelotinib, for anemia caused by the blood malignancy myelofibrosis. GSK is paying USD 55 per share in cash for Sierra, a 39% premium to the company's closing share price yesterday, valui...
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Feb 15, 2022
Pfizer & Lilly’s JAK Inhibitors Drug; FDA Approves Lilly’s Bebtelovimab; GSK’s Benlysta; Daewon’s Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug; Lilly & Innovent’s Lung Cancer Drug; Bayer’s Asundexian
Pfizer and Lilly's JAK Inhibitors Safety Concerns Prompt Europe to Investigate the Drug Class The risk of heart problems associated with the use of JAK inhibitors has called the entire drug class into question. In September, the FDA announced that it would require safety warnings for drugs such as Pfizer's Xelja...
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Nov 30, 2021
GE Healthcare-Optellum’s collaboration; Ocugen’s Covid-19 vaccine trial; Blueprint to acquire Lengo Therapeutics; Therapixel’s Mammoscreen
GE Healthcare, Optellum collaborate for AI-based lung cancer diagnosis GE Healthcare has collaborated with Optellum to progress precision diagnosis and lung cancer treatment with artificial intelligence. The partnership is zeroed in on helping healthcare providers to evaluate the malignancy of a lung nodule a...
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Nov 01, 2021
An in-depth Assessment of the Top Drugs Launched by Leading Global Companies in the First Half of 2021 (H1)
Progress is driven by innovation. When it comes to developing novel medications and therapeutic biological products, the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) assists the pharmaceutical sector at every stage of the process. CDER offers scientific and regulatory assistance needed to bring innovative m...
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Jun 01, 2021
Amgen a leader in Undruggable Lung Cancer; Verrica’s Skin Disease Drug Delays; Fennec’s Faith in its Chemotherapy-Induced Hearing Loss Drug; Nexturn Bio’s Acquisition of RosVivo
FDA Validates Use of Amgen’s KRAS Inhibitor in Lung Cancer In a pathbreaking move, Amgen has gone ahead to emerge as a trailblazer in the undruggable lung cancer space with the approval of its KRAS inhibitor, Lumakras. For eons, the researchers grappled to come up with an effective and potential drug to ta...
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Nov 18, 2020
Lung Cancer and its Increasing Global Burden
Lung cancer possesses a significant global health burden and is one of the most common cancers. Worldwide, every year around 2 million new cases, and approximately 1.76 million deaths occur due to Lung cancer. To raise awareness about risk factors, signs and symptoms, and the importance of early detection of lung c...
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Jul 01, 2020
Top 5 Cancers Creating Major Challenge To The Global Healthcare System
Over the past few decades Cancer has emerged as a major public health concern worldwide. Cancer is the second leading cause of deaths that takes place worldwide. Every sixth death is due to cancer, and in 2018 was estimated to be responsible for 9.6 million deaths. Costing people quality of lives and eventually lea...
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