The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use adopted a positive opinion recommending the granting of conditional marketing authorization of Tepkinly (epcoritamab), a T-cell engaging bispecific antibody administered subcutaneously, as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy.
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.
