A federal appeals court revived nationwide litigation accusing Roche Holding AG’s Genentech unit of failing to ensure that vials of the comapny’s Herceptin breast cancer drug contained the labeled amount of the active ingredient, and that the labels misstated the drug’s concentration and volume.

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu helped patients with three different types of cancer live longer in trials, pointing to potential broader use of the breast cancer treatment.

Merck announced positive data from the Phase III KEYNOTE-355 trial looking at the company’s checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in combination with chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Immunomedics Inc. won an accelerated approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Trodelvy, a therapy for a form of invasive breast cancer that has worsened despite two prior rounds of treatment.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Seattle Genetics’ Tukysa (tucatinib) in combination with chemotherapy agents trastuzumab and capecitabine for adults with HER2+ breast cancer that cannot be surgically removed or has metastasized to other parts of the body.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to Seattle Genetics Inc.’s Tukysa tablets in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine for adult patients with advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer, including patients with brain metastases, who have received one or more prior anti-HER2-based regimens in the metastatic setting.

Rockville, Md.-based Rexahn Pharmaceuticals terminated a nearly two-year-old agreement with Merck that paired the company’s experimental phosphorylated-p68 inhibitor with Keytruda as a potential treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Morris Plains, New Jersey-based Immunomedics halted the company’s Phase III confirmatory ASCENT clinical trial of sacituzumab govitecan in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC).

Vancouver, Washington-based CytoDyn filed a second clinical trial protocol with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat severely sick COVID-19 patients.

Oncology is one of the most exciting areas in healthcare, as novel therapies continue to emerge that move forward our molecular understanding of the disease and offer effective treatment advances. This Q&A explores oncology innovation with Kantar’s Stephanie Hawthorne, Vice President of Oncology and Specialty Therapeutics.