European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion recommending the granting of conditional marketing authorization for Tepkinly (epcoritamab) as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy. The final European Commission decision on this indication for Tepkinly is anticipated later this year.
A study led by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute found the drug pirtobrutinib worked as well as another drug, ibrutinib, in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma, and people in the study responded better with pirtobrutinib.
