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CHMP recommends EU conditional approval of Roche’s potential first in class bispecific antibody mosunetuzumab for people with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma
22 April 2022 - The recommendation is based on the GO29781 study where mosunetuzumab induced high complete response rates, with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Apr 2022
European Commission approves Padcev (enfortumab vedotin) for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer
13 April 2022 - Enfortumab vedotin is the first medicine approved in the EU for patients who received a prior ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Apr 2022
BeiGene announces European Medicines Agency acceptance of marketing authorisation applications for tislelizumab for the treatment of patients with ESCC and NSCLC
6 April 2022 - First European submissions for BeiGene’s anti PD-1 antibody licensed to Novartis for North America, Europe and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Apr 2022
Bristol Myers Squibb receives European Commission approval for Opdivo (nivolumab) with chemotherapy as first-line treatment for patients with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma with tumour cell PD-L1 expression ≥ 1%
5 April 2022 - Opdivo with chemotherapy demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival compared to chemotherapy alone ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Apr 2022
Bristol Myers Squibb receives European Commission approval for Opdivo (nivolumab) plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) as first-line treatment for patients with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma with tumour cell PD-L1 expression ≥ 1%
5 April 2022 - Opdivo plus Yervoy is one of two newly approved Opdivo based treatment regimens to demonstrate superior overall ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Apr 2022
Bristol Myers Squibb receives European Commission approval for CAR T cell therapy Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel) for certain forms of relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma
5 April 2022 - Approval of Breyanzi is based on results from TRANSCEND WORLD, and TRANSCEND NHL 001, the largest pivotal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Apr 2022
European Commission approves Kimmtrak (tebentafusp) for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic uveal melanoma
4 April 2022 - Kimmtrak demonstrated statistically and clinically meaningful overall survival benefit, hazard ratio of 0.51, with median overall ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2022
EMA establishes Cancer Medicines Forum with academia to optimise cancer treatments in clinical practice
31 March 2022 - EMA, in collaboration with the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, has launched the Cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Mar 2022
European Medicines Agency validates Bristol Myers Squibb’s application for Opdivo (nivolumab) with chemotherapy as neo-adjuvant treatment for resectable non-small-cell lung cancer
29 March 2022 - Application based on CheckMate-816, the only Phase 3 trial to demonstrate improved event-free survival and pathologic complete ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Mar 2022
Blueprint Medicines' Ayvakyt (avapritinib) receives European Commission approval for the treatment of adults with advanced systemic mastocytosis
25 March 2022 - Initial commercial launch is planned for Germany immediately following the European Commission approval. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2022
Highlights from the CHMP 21-24 March 2022 meeting
25 March 2022 - The EMA’s CHMP recommended five medicines for approval at its March 2022 meeting. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2022
Merck receives positive EU CHMP opinion for Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for patients with microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient tumours in five different types of cancer
25 March 2022 - Recommendation supports use of Keytruda for certain patients with unresectable or metastatic MSI-H/dMMR colorectal, gastric, small ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2022
Ipsen receives positive CHMP opinion for Cabometyx in radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer
25 March 2022 - Recommendation based on data from the COSMIC-311 Phase 3 trial, in which Cabometyx (cabozantinib) demonstrated a 78% ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2022
Novartis receives positive CHMP opinion for Kymriah CAR-T cell therapy for adult patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma in Europe
25 March 2022 - CHMP opinion based on Phase 2 global ELARA trial demonstrating high response rates in heavily pretreated patients; ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2022
CHMP recommends EU approval of Roche’s Polivy combination for people with previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
25 March 2022 - Recommendation is based on pivotal data from the Phase 3 POLARIX trial. ...