Drugs & Targets

Drugs & Targets

MCW Cancer Center leads change in Medicare policy for older patients with MDS in need of alloHCT

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued a decision to expand Medicare coverage for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants for eligible Medicare patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, based on decades-long research led by investigators at the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center, in collaboration with investigators in the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network and advocacy experts at the American Society of Hematology, American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, and the National Marrow Donor Program.
Drugs & Targets

FDA accepts BLA for subcutaneous Opdivo

FDA has accepted the Bristol Myers Squibb’s Biologics License Application for the subcutaneous formulation of Opdivo (nivolumab) co-formulated with Halozyme’s proprietary recombinant human hyaluronidase (rHuPH20)—herein referred to as “subcutaneous nivolumab”—across all previously approved adult, solid tumor Opdivo indications as monotherapy, monotherapy maintenance following completion of Opdivo plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) combination therapy, or in combination with chemotherapy or cabozantinib.