small cell lung cancer

Dec 13, 2024

AstraZeneca has secured another approval for its cancer blockbuster IMFINZI (durvalumab), as the FDA has approved the PD-L1 inhibitor for patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer (LS-SCLC) whose disease has not progressed following concurrent chemotherapy and radiation. This approval makes IMFINZI the ...

May 21, 2024

IMDELLTRA Receives FDA Approval as the First T-Cell Engager Therapy for Advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer Amgen has reported that the FDA has approved IMDELLTRA™ (tarlatamab-dlle) for treating adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) who have experienced disease progression following pl...

Aug 15, 2023

FDA Clears J&J’s 2-in-1 Tablet for Prostate Cancer Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies stated that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved AKEEGA (niraparib and abiraterone acetate), the first-and-only dual-action tablet combining a PARP inhibitor including abiraterone ace...

Apr 26, 2022

FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Coherus Biosciences’ Toripalimab for Small Cell Lung Cancer The FDA granted orphan drug status to Coherus Biosciences’ Toripalimab (TuoYi) based on data from the phase 3 JUPITER-08 study in patients with extensive-stage Small-cell Lung Cancer (ES-SCLC). Patients in the curre...

Jul 03, 2020

As per DelveInsight, the Small cell lung cancer market size is expected to increase at a CAGR of 15.2% during the study period (2017–30) attributing to a rich pipeline, healthcare spending, improved R&D, and discovery of novel targets. Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) or Small cell lung carcinoma is an aggressi...

Jul 01, 2020

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...

Feb 04, 2020

The US FDA has given its recommendation to the Aimmune Therapeutics’ drug, Palforzia, the first-ever treatment for Peanut Allergy. Palforzia is an oral immunotherapy, set to address the unmet needs in the Peanut market, reducing the incidence and severity of allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, which may ...

Oct 11, 2018

SNAPSHOTS: Copiktra receives FDA approval for CLL and FL, Relief for tazemetostat developers after FDA lifted partial clinical hold, Conference highlights from 19th WCLC The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has granted approval to Verastem’s Copiktra (duvelisib), for the treatment of patients with...

Aug 21, 2018

Kalydeco, the first Cystic Fibrosis drug of Vertex, got approved for infants The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Kalydeco drug of Vertex Pharmaceuticals for infants aged 12 to under 24 months. The approved drug treats the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis in children of this age with at least one mutatio...