The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion recommending the approval of Sarclisa in combination with bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (VRd) for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who are ineligible for autologous stem cell transplant. A final decision is expected in the coming months.
ARC, the innovation arm of Sheba Medical Center Israel’s largest hospital and a global leader in clinical trials, announced today a collaboration with Roche, a leading provider of digital pathology solutions worldwide, to help improve the diagnosis and treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.
FDA approved Opdivo (nivolumab) with platinum-doublet chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment, followed by single-agent Opdivo after surgery as adjuvant treatment, for adults with resectable (tumors ≥ 4 cm and/or node positive) non-small cell lung cancer and no known epidermal growth factor receptor mutations or anaplastic lymphoma kinase rearrangements.
Updated results from the phase III MARIPOSA-2 study showed Rybrevant (amivantamab-vmjw) combined with chemotherapy led to consistent benefit across post-progression outcomes in adult patients with previously treated NSCLC with epidermal growth factor receptor exon 19 deletions or L858R substitution mutations.
FDA approved Rybrevant (amivantamab-vmjw) with carboplatin and pemetrexed for adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R substitution mutations whose disease has progressed on or after treatment with an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
Findings by Friends of Cancer Research were published recently in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics in a paper titled “Evaluation of real-world tumor response derived from electronic health record data sources: A feasibility analysis in mNSCLC patients treated with chemotherapy.”
FDA approved Rybrevant (amivantamab-vmjw) plus Lazcluze (lazertinib) for the first-line treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R substitution mutations, as detected by an FDA-approved test.
FDA approved durvalumab (Imfinzi) with platinum-containing chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment, followed by single-agent durvalumab as adjuvant treatment after surgery for adults with resectable (tumors ≥ 4 cm and/or node positive) non-small cell lung cancer and no known epidermal growth factor receptor mutations or anaplastic lymphoma kinase rearrangements.
Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, announced that the phase II/III SKYSCRAPER-06 study evaluating tiragolumab plus Tecentriq (atezolizumab) and chemotherapy versus pembrolizumab and chemotherapy as an initial treatment for people with previously untreated, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer, did not meet its primary endpoints of progression-free survival at its primary analysis with a hazard ratio of 1.27 [95% CI: 1.02,1.57] and overall survival at its first interim analysis with a HR of 1.33 [95% CI: 1.02, 1.73], which was immature.
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute researchers have found a potentially effective drug-combination approach to treating certain patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
