Drugs & Targets

Drugs & Targets

CHMP adopts positive opinion of cabozantinib for previously treated advanced neuroendocrine tumors

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has issued a positive opinion for Cabometyx (cabozantinib) for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic, well differentiated extra-pancreatic and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors who have progressed following at least one prior systemic therapy other than somatostatin analogues. 
Drugs & Targets

EC approves Adcetris for newly diagnosed Hodgkin lymphoma in combination with ECADD

The European Commission June 3 approved Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in combination with etoposide, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, dacarbazine and dexamethasone—a chemotherapy regimen—in adult patients with newly diagnosed stage 2b with risk factors, stage 3, and stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma. The decision follows a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on April 25.