The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee recently voted on 2 investigational therapies being developed by Daiichi Sankyo: pexidartinib for the treatment of adult patients with symptomatic tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT), and quizartinib for the treatment of adults with relapsed/refractory FLT3-ITD acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Bavencio (avelumab; EMD Serono), a programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) blocking antibody, in combination with Inlyta (axitinib; Pfizer), a kinase inhibitor, for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
The FDA has approved Cyramza (ramucirumab; Lilly) for use as a single agent in the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have an alpha fetoprotein (AFP) of ≥400ng/mL and have been treated with sorafenib.
The FDA has approved Kadcyla (ado-trastuzumab emtansine; Genentech) for the adjuvant treatment of patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer who have residual invasive disease after neoadjuvant taxane and trastuzumab-based treatment.The ‘KATHERINE’ trial evaluated the safety and efficacy of Kadcyla vs trastuzumab.
A study presented at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy 2019 Annual Meeting showed that an oral oncology split-fill program implemented by AllianceRx Walgreens Prime resulted in improved adherence and reduced pharmacy costs and medication waste.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Tecentriq (atezolizumab; Genentech), in combination with carboplatin and etoposide, for the first-line treatment of adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC).
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Trazimera (trastuzumab-qyyp; Pfizer), a biosimilar to Herceptin (trastuzumab; Genentech).
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to Tecentriq (atezolizumab; Genentech) in combination with Abraxane.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Herceptin Hylecta (trastuzumab and hyaluronidase-oysk) for the treatment of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Lonsurf (trifluridine and tipiracil; Taiho Oncology) for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma previously treated with at least 2 prior lines of chemotherapy that included a fluoropyrimidine, a platinum, either a taxane or irinotecan, and if appropriate, HER2/neu-targeted therapy. The approval was based…
