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Merck launches frontline PhIII lung cancer study for Keytruda/Yervoy combo

Merck took a dominant position in frontline lung cancer with the approval of a combination of Keytruda and chemo. And it isn’t just waiting around to see if any combination of a PD-(L)1 with a CTLA4 can come along and knock it off its market-leading perch.
- Source: Endpts
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Merck’s Keytruda resumes regulatory hot streak with stomach cancer approval

Just a few months after Merck’s monster May for Keytruda, which featured three FDA approvals, the New Jersey drugmaker is back with another green light.
- Source: Fiercepharma
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- September 27, 2017
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EU green light for Roche’s Tecentriq

Roche has received European Commission(EC) approval for its anti-PD-L1 cancer immunotherapy Tecentriq (atezolizumab) to treat specific lung and bladder cancers. The green light means that it can be used as monotherapy for people in the EU with previously-treated locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell cancer (NSCLC), or those with metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) who have received a platinum-based chemotherapy or who are ineligible to receive cisplatin chemotherapy.
- Source: Pharmatimes
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- September 26, 2017
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FDA approves first cancer biosimilar

The US Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has approved Amgen’s Mvasi (bevacizumab-awwb) as a biosimilar to Roche/Genentech’s Avastin (bevacizumab) for the treatment of multiple types of cancer, making it the first biosimilar approved in the country for the treatment of cancer.
- Source: Pharmatimes
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- September 18, 2017
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GSK Exercises Option over SPEAR T-cell Therapy Program Targeting NY-ESO

Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq:ADAP), a leader in T-cell therapy to treat cancer, today announced that GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE:GSK) (NYSE:GSK) has exercised its option under a collaboration and license agreement signed in 2014 to exclusively license the right to research, develop, and commercialize Adaptimmune’s NY-ESO SPEAR T-cell therapy program. Further details will be provided in a conference call scheduled for 8:30 AM EDT this morning; dial-in and webcast details are provided below.
- Source: Globenewswire
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- September 11, 2017
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Verastem’s Duvelisib Succeeds in Late-Stage Blood Cancer Study

Verastem, Inc. (NASDAQ:VSTM), focused on discovering and developing drugs to improve the survival and quality of life of cancer patients, today reported positive top-line results from the Phase 3 DUO study evaluating the efficacy and safety of duvelisib, a first in class oral dual inhibitor of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and PI3K-gamma, in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL).
- Source: Spjnews
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- September 8, 2017
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FDA Grants Priority Review for Genentech’s Gazyva in Previously Untreated Follicular Lymphoma

Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company’s supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) and granted Priority Review for Gazyva® (obinutuzumab) in combination with chemotherapy followed by Gazyva alone for people with previously untreated follicular lymphoma, one of the most common blood cancers among adults. Follicular lymphoma, a slow-growing (indolent) form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, is incurable and characterized by cycles of remission and relapse.
- Source: biospace
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EUSA bags EU approval for kidney cancer drug

The European Commission has licensed EUSA Pharma’s Fotivda for the management of adult patients with advanced kidney cancer across the European Union as well as Norway and Iceland.
- Source: open-medical
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- August 30, 2017
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NICE turns down kidney cancer drugs

It is looking unlikely that patients in England and Wales with advanced renal cell carcinoma will be getting routine NHS access to Eisai’s Kisplyx or Eusa Pharma’s Fotivda, after cost regulators issued draft guidelines turning down their use.
- Source: pharmatimes
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- August 15, 2017
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Researchers demonstrate potential of new PET tracer for imaging prostate cancer

In the featured translational article in the August issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers at the University of Michigan demonstrate the potential of a new PET tracer, Carbon-11 labeled sarcosine (11C-sarcosine), for imaging prostate cancer, and set the stage for its possible use in monitoring other cancers.
- Source: news-medical.net
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- August 8, 2017
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