CT colonography and stool DNA failed to get on the list of preferred tools for screening for colorectal cancer. A draft guideline from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released Oct. 6 calls for using one of three strategies: Fecal immunochemical test or high-sensitivity guaiac-based fecal occult blood test every year;Flexible sigmoidoscopy every ten years,...
Last week, FDA granted accelerated approval to Replimune Group Inc. for it’s biologic, RP1 (vusolimogene oderparepvec), following the FDA Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee’s 10:3 vote in support of the biologic in combination with nivolumab for the treatment of advanced melanoma in patients who have progressed on prior anti-PD-1 therapy.
