Hundreds of studies and results were presented at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting.
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.
MacroGenics’ metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer drug margetuximab continued to show promise in a second pre-planned interim overall survival analysis of the Phase III SOPHIA trial.
Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Phase III CheckMate -548 study of Opdivo (nivoumab) added to current standard of care to treat brain cancer – newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme – did not meet one of the primary endpoints, progression-free survival. The clinical trial will continue to evaluate the other primary endpoint, overall survival.
Keytruda In Combination With Inlyta Reduced Risk Of Death By Nearly Half Compared To Sunitinib As First-Line Treatment For Advanced RCC
Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), Blockbusters, Clinical Trials, Overall Survival (OS), PD-1 Inhibitors, Progression-Free Survival (PFS), R&D, Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC), TherapeuticsMerck & Co. announced presentation of the full results from the pivotal Phase 3 KEYNOTE-426 trial investigating the company’s anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda in combination with Inlyta, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, for the first-line treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) at the 2019 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.
Merck & Co. Inc. said the combination of the drugmaker’s cancer immunotherapy Keytruda with Pfizer Inc.’s Inlyta cut the risk of death nearly in half for patients with the most common form of kidney cancer when compared with treatment with the chemotherapy drug Sutent.
Imbruvica fails to meet pancreatic cancer study goal
American Cancer Society, Blockbusters, Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) Inhibitors, Cancer, Cancer Cells, Chemotherapy, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), Clinical Trials, FDA, Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL), Pancreatic Cancer, Progression-Free Survival (PFS), R&D, TherapeuticsAbbVie Inc.’s blockbuster cancer treatment Imbruvica in combination with chemotherapy agents failed to meet the main goal in a late-stage study of patients with a form of pancreatic cancer.
An Opdivo-Yervoy combo yielded a significantly longer treatment-free survival period for patients with previously untreated advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma than standard of care sunitinib.
Imbruvica Plus Gazyva Phase 3 iLLUMINATE Trial for First-Line Therapy of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patients Met Primary Endpoint
Biopharma, Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) Inhibitors, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), Clinical Studies, Progression-Free Survival (PFS), Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (SLL)AbbVie, a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, announced that the Phase 3 iLLUMINATE (PCYC-1130) trial met its primary endpoint of improvement in progression-free survival.
A combination of experimental drugs from Array BioPharma Inc. kept patients with advanced melanoma associated with a common gene mutation alive for nearly three years and twice as long as a rival Roche Holding AG medicine, according to data from a late-stage study.