The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicine Agency has adopted a positive opinion for the extension of the marketing authorization of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) and recommended its approval in combination with doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine—or AVD—in adult patients with previously untreated CD30+ stage 3 Hodgkin lymphoma.
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.
