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FDA grants approval to Gilead Sciences’ breast cancer therapy

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Gilead Sciences ’ Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) to treat unresectable locally advanced or metastatic hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative (IHC 0, IHC 1+ or IHC 2+/ISH–) breast cancer adult patients. Trodelvy showed 3.2

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Health Canada gives approval to Enhertu for breast cancer treatment

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Being co-developed and co-marketed by Daiichi Sankyo along with AstraZeneca , Enhertu is a specifically engineered HER2-directed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC).

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SABCS: Pharmas show their working in HR+/HER2- breast cancer

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Along with data from its antibody-drug conjugates and oral selective oestrogen receptor degrader (SERD) camizestrant reported earlier, AZ presented results of the CAPItello trial of AKT inhibitor capivasertib in combination with injectable SERD Faslodex (fulvestrant) in hormone receptor positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

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EU approves Daiichi Sankyo-AstraZeneca’s breast cancer therapy

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Being co-developed and co-marketed by AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo, Enhertu is a particularly engineered HER2-directed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC). It has been developed using the DXd ADC technology from Daiichi Sankyo.

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AstraZeneca-Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu gets US FDA approval for breast cancer

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According to the trial data, Enhertu lowered disease progression or mortality risk by 50% compared with chemotherapy according to the physician’s choice in HER2-low metastatic breast cancer patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive disease or HR-negative disease. months compared with 5.1 months for the chemotherapy arm.

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China grants EUA to Covid-19 vaccine against XBB descendent lineages

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The subunit antigen in the vaccine has been based on the structure of the targeting S-RBD and HR proteins of the XBB and BA.5 Trials demonstrated that the vaccine induced a high titer of neutralising antibodies against several subvariants, including Omicron subvariants XBB.1.5, 5 subvariants. XBB1.16, XBB1.9.1,

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ESMO 2022: shrinking market for Trodelvy, with fierce ADC competition

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Hormone receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor negative (HR+/HER2-) breast cancer accounts for approximately 70% of all breast cancers, with close to 40,000 new cases diagnosed each year worldwide. Trop-2 is highly expressed across multiple cancer types, with expression detected in more than 90% of breast cancers.

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