Tag Archive for: non-small cell lung cancer

Seeking a potential slice of the challenging KRAS market, Merck has launched a Phase III NSCLC trial of its oral G12C inhibitor MK-1084, in combination with Keytruda, in pursuit of Amgen and Bristol Myers Squibb.

The financing was secured from life sciences investment company Abingworth and will help Gilead run “select clinical studies” of Trodelvy.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed a clinical hold on Iovance Biotherapeutics’ lung cancer therapy trial after a patient death, the company said on Wednesday.

The company announced that its experimental therapy in combination with Keytruda to treat a type of lung cancer in previously treated patients did not meet the main goal in a mid-stage study.

At this year’s European Society for Medical Oncology, excitement topped 2022 levels on NSCLC and breast cancer innovation.

While Amgen and Mirati are widely viewed as frontrunners to win the first front line approval, analysts—and competitors—say the field is still wide open.

When given concurrently with chemoradiotherapy, AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi in a late-stage lung cancer study did not lead to significant improvements in progression-free survival versus chemoradiotherapy alone.

MediLink will grant BioNTech exclusive global rights for the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of one of MediLink’s ADC assets, and BioNTech will provide MediLink with an upfront payment totaling of $70 million and additional development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments potentially totaling over $1 billion.

Amgen’s regulatory ambitions for its non-small cell lung cancer drug Lumakras (sotorasib) ran into headwinds Tuesday, after FDA staff indicated in their briefing document that there might not be sufficient evidence of its efficacy to justify full approval.

J&J’s therapy combination of antibody treatment Rybrevant and experimental drug lazertinib showed a clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival rate in patients.