The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued Incyte Corporation with a Complete Response Letter (CRL) over the company’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for retifanlimab for anal cancer.
The Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC), as part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, voted 13-4 that a regulatory decision on Incyte’s PD-1 inhibitor retifanlimab for the treatment of advanced or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal (SCAC) should be deferred until further data are available from the clinical trial POD1UM-303.
Merck announced positive results from the late-stage KEYNOTE-522 study for Keytruda as a neoadjuvant treatment for triple negative breast cancer, which should support the company’s previous attempt for U.S. approval that was stymied by a regulatory advisory committee in February and rejected by the Food and Drug Administration in March.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee did not agree in a meeting to maintain the accelerated approval of Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo (nivolumab) as a second-line treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) voted against recommending Merck’s checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as neoadjuvant treatment for high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in combination with chemotherapy after surgery.
The U.S.Food and Drug Administration issued a Complete Response Letter for Mesoblast’s Biologics License Application for Ryoncil (remestemcel-L).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is wrapping up the month of September with a few PDUFA dates, including an approval review of Aquestive’s Libervant for the management of seizure clusters in epilepsy.
