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Specialised Therapeutics’ breast cancer drug gets Philippines FDA approval

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The company claimed that the utmost benefit is reported in hormone-receptor positive (HR+) women and those who commence treatment with Nerlynx within a year of receiving trastuzumab-based therapy. Nerlynx is the first drug in Specialised Therapeutics’ therapeutic portfolio to obtain approval in the region.

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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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US FDA approves expanded indication for Lilly’s breast cancer therapy

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for the expanded indication for Eli Lilly and Company ’s (Lilly) Verzenio (abemaciclib) to treat breast cancer patients. The post US FDA approves expanded indication for Lilly’s breast cancer therapy appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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FDA Approves

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Patients should be selected for therapy based on an FDA-approved companion diagnostic for LYNPARZA. 0.45]) and overall survival (OS) (HR=0.30 [95% CI, 0.15-0.59]) Based on exploratory analyses of rPFS and OS in the BRCA m and non- BRCA m subgroups (non- BRCA subgroup rPFS HR=0.77 [95% CI, 0.63-0.96]; In the U.S.,

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Ibrance trial failure dashes Pfizer’s growth hopes for the drug

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When added to standard treatment with hormone-based drugs, Ibrance (palbociclib) was unable to achieve better iDFS than hormone therapy alone in women with hormone receptor-positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor-negative (HER2-) early-stage breast cancer.

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EU clears Enhertu for HER2-low breast cancer

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In Europe, approximately 531,000 breast cancer patients are diagnosed annually, with around 141,000 deaths, and around half of all cases would fall under the HER2-low classification, split between patients with both hormone receptor (HR) positive and HR negative disease. months to 23.4

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The regulatory round-up: Eight key FDA decisions

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Orserdu (elacestrant), Stemline Therapeutics The first and only treatment specifically indicated for patients with ESR1 mutations in ER+, HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer was approved in the US in February. This made Jesduvroq is the first oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor (HIF-PHI) to be approved in the US.