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Specialised Therapeutics’ breast cancer drug gets Philippines FDA approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company claimed that the utmost benefit is reported in hormone-receptor positive (HR+) women and those who commence treatment with Nerlynx within a year of receiving trastuzumab-based therapy. The post Specialised Therapeutics’ breast cancer drug gets Philippines FDA approval appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Pfizer’s Ngenla Approved as Once-Weekly Treatment for Pediatric Growth Hormone Deficiency (GHD)

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Pfizer has been going strong on the approval front, having secured its fifth US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in the past five weeks, with the most recent being for the company’s once-weekly human growth hormone analog Ngenla (somatrogon-ghla).

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AstraZeneca-Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu gets US FDA approval for breast cancer

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According to the trial data, Enhertu lowered disease progression or mortality risk by 50% compared with chemotherapy according to the physician’s choice in HER2-low metastatic breast cancer patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive disease or HR-negative disease. months compared with 5.1 months for the chemotherapy arm.

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FDA Approves Pfizer’s NGENLA™, a Long-Acting Once-Weekly Treatment for Pediatric Growth Hormone Deficiency

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FDA Approves Pfizer’s NGENLA™, a Long-Acting Once-Weekly Treatment for Pediatric Growth Hormone Deficiency NEW YORK & MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pfizer Inc. The approval of NGENLA will be significant for children with growth hormone deficiency in the U.S. NYSE: PFE) and OPKO Health Inc.

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Pfizer, Astellas’ Xtandi Gets FDA Approval for Earlier Prostate Cancer Treatment

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Xtandi is now approved to treat nonmetastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer with biochemical recurrence at high risk for metastasis with or without a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog therapy.

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AstraZeneca and MSD’s Lynparza combo bags FDA approval for prostate cancer

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A prior orchiectomy or receipt of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogs was also necessary. The PROpel study included 796 mCRPC patients who had not received prior chemotherapy or NHAs in the mCRPC setting.

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Pfizer’s Ngenla finally secures FDA approval following a rocky road to market

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Pfizer has announced that the FDA has approved Ngenla (somatrogon-ghla), a paediatric growth hormone deficiency treatment.