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.
Hodgkin lymphoma has long been a model disease in the field of oncology—one of the first diseases we learned to cure with radiation and ultimately chemotherapy.Â
