The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Roche company Genentech’s checkpoint inhibitor Tecentriq (atezolizumab) for first-line treatment for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with high PD-L1 expression.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Tecentriq as a standalone therapy for an advanced form of lung cancer.
A late-stage trial testing a combination of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s cancer drugs missed a main goal of preventing skin cancer from recurring in a certain group of patients.
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).
A combination of AstraZeneca’s lung cancer drug Imfinzi and an experimental treatment failed to extend the lives of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and high levels of gene mutations
Rare Cancer Treatments and the Power of Checkpoint Inhibitors Among Hot Topics at ASCO
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Blockbusters, Cancer, Checkpoint Inhibitors, Clinical Studies, Clinical Trials, Data, Desmoid Tumors, Endocrine Therapy, Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, Lung Cancer, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Orphan Diseases, PD-L1 Inhibitor, PD-L1 protein, PIK3CA mutations, R&D, Rare Cancers, Rare Sarcomas, Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor (TGCT)With the books closed on another ASCO meeting, it’s clear to see that checkpoint inhibitors keep showing a promise.