Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Seattle Genetics Inc. announced that data from the randomized phase III Alcanza clinical trial evaluating Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma was published in Lancet.
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a positive opinion for the extension of the marketing authorization of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) and recommended its approval in combination with etoposide, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, dacarbazine, and dexamethasone, a chemotherapy regimen, in adult patients with newly diagnosed stage 2b with risk factors/3/4 Hodgkin lymphoma.
