U.K.-based Celleron Therapeutics signed a licensing agreement with Swiss pharma giant Roche for the worldwide rights to the cancer drug emactuzumab, a monoclonal antibody directed against colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1R) expressed on macrophages.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd.’s Turalio for adult patients with a type of rare, non-cancerous tumor affecting joints and limbs.
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.
Daiichi Sankyo announced that its Phase III ENLIVEN trial of pexidartinib met its primary endpoint.