GlaxoSmithKline is acquiring California biopharmaceutical firm Sierra Oncology for $1.9 billion in a deal expected to help both companies take a major step in developing a treatment for rare types of cancer.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Incyte’s Pemazyre (pemigatinib), a kinase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of adults with previously treated, unresectable locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 fusion or other rearrangement as detected by an FDA-approved test.
Rare Cancer Treatments and the Power of Checkpoint Inhibitors Among Hot Topics at ASCO
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Blockbusters, Cancer, Checkpoint Inhibitors, Clinical Studies, Clinical Trials, Data, Desmoid Tumors, Endocrine Therapy, Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, Lung Cancer, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Orphan Diseases, PD-L1 Inhibitor, PD-L1 protein, PIK3CA mutations, R&D, Rare Cancers, Rare Sarcomas, Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor (TGCT)With the books closed on another ASCO meeting, it’s clear to see that checkpoint inhibitors keep showing a promise.