Johnson and Johnson said a combination therapy containing the company’s blockbuster cancer drug Imbruvica significantly improved survival in blood cancer patients, compared with drugs currently used as the standard of care.
Johnson & Johnson’s blockbuster blood cancer drug Darzalex significantly reduced the risk of disease progression or death in patients who have not been previously treated for multiple myeloma, late-stage study data showed.
Nearly 40 percent of lymphoma patients treated with a single infusion of Gilead Sciences Inc.’s Yescarta were still responding to the cell therapy after at least two years of follow-up.
Biopharma executives were asked to predict what the next year might reveal.
Bristol-Myers Squibb snagged regulatory approval from the U.S. FDA for Empliciti (elotuzumab) for adults with multiple myeloma who have received at least two prior therapies.
Swiss pharma giant Novartis announced plans to seek regulatory approval for 60 new treatments between 2019 and 2021.
AbbVie and Roche’s targeted therapy delayed the progression of a type of blood and bone marrow cancer when used in combination with the Swiss drugmaker’s cancer drug in a late-stage trial.
AstraZeneca is plowing deeper into cancer immunotherapy through a wide-ranging deal with Innate Pharma, which includes the British group buying a 9.8 percent stake in the French biotech company.
An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously in favor of Celltrion Pharm Inc.’s copycat drug of Roche Holding AG’s blood cancer drug Rituxan.
Seattle Genetics and development partner Takeda Pharmaceutical announced stellar Phase III data from the ECHELON-2 clinical trial of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) for peripheral T-cell lymphoma.
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