The FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Feb. 26 voted down a vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy for early-stage, low-risk prostate cancer and, in a narrow vote, recommended approval for a combination of a VEGF receptor 2 antagonist and an EGFR-targeting tyrosine kinase inhibitor for front-line treatment of EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer.
Over the past seven years, as Steven K. Libutti was designing the 12-story, $900-plus million cancer hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, he often thought of the functionality of the building that inspired it: Building 10, the NIH Clinical Center.
