Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly announced the FDA’s Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 6-5 in favor of Cyramza (ramucirumab) plus erlotinib as a potential treatment for patients with untreated metastatic EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Roche Group member Genentech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepted the company’s supplemental Biologics License Application and granted Priority Review for Tecentriq (atezolizumab) as a first-line monotherapy for people with advanced non-squamous and squamous non-small cell lung cancer without EGFR or ALK mutations with high PD-L1 expression, as determined by PD-L1 biomarker testing.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eagle Pharmaceuticals’ Pemfexy (pemetrexed for injection) as a branded alternative to Eli Lilly and Co.’s Alimta.
BeiGene Ltd.’s cancer therapy combination for treating lung cancer in previously untreated patients met the main goal in a late-stage study.
China’s Innovent Biologics forged a licensing agreement with biosimilar-focused Coherus BioSciences to commercialize Innovent’s biosimilar candidate to Avastin (bevacizumab) in the United States and Canada.
Findings from the Phase III KEYNOTE-042 study show improvements in overall survival (OS), PFS and ORR in patients treated with Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as a monotherapy.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Genentech’s Tecentriq plus chemotherapy as a first-line treatment of metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
About 40 percent of patients who received a combination of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s immuno-oncology drugs Opdivo and Yervoy as an initial treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer were alive after two years, according to data presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology 2019 meeting.
Genentech announced positive data from the Phase III IMpower110 study evaluating Tecentriq as a first-line monotherapy compared with cisplatin or carboplatin and pemetrexed or gemcitabine (chemotherapy) in advanced non-squamous and squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without ALK or EGFR mutations (wild-type; WT).
New clinical data shows that Eli Lilly’s investigational oncology drug pegilodecakin, in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor, could be a potential new treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer and kidney cancer.
