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

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The approval was based on findings from the international, randomised, open-label Phase III DESTINY-Breast04 clinical trial. Furthermore, Enhertu’s safety profile was in line with prior clinical trials without any new safety concerns detected. months compared with 5.1 months for the chemotherapy arm. months compared with 16.8

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Specialised Therapeutics’ breast cancer drug gets Philippines FDA approval

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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. In a Phase III ExteNET clinical trial, neratinib offered a 34% decline in the risk of recurrence and a 2.3%

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US FDA approves expanded indication for Lilly’s breast cancer therapy

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for the expanded indication for Eli Lilly and Company ’s (Lilly) Verzenio (abemaciclib) to treat breast cancer patients. In the trial, Verzenio along with ET reduced disease recurrence risk by 35% compared to ET alone.

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FDA Approves

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Patients should be selected for therapy based on an FDA-approved companion diagnostic for LYNPARZA. 0.45]) and overall survival (OS) (HR=0.30 [95% CI, 0.15-0.59]) As previously reported, there was a statistically significant improvement in rPFS in the full intention-to-treat (ITT) population in the PROpel trial (n=796).

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AstraZeneca’s Enhertu Gets FDA Approved as First Therapy for HER2-Low Breast Cancer

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Prior to the approval of Enhertu, patients in the latter IHC/ISH category were not eligible for HER2-targeted therapies and mainly got endocrine therapy (if HR-positive disease) or chemotherapy. Enhertu Trial Data. The trial included 494 hormone receptor positive (HR+) patients and 63 hormone receptor negative (HR-) patients.

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FDA approves Jardiance (empagliflozin) for wider range of patients with heart failure

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.” The FDA’s decision to expand the indications for Jardiance was based on results from the international, randomised, double-blind EMPEROR-Preserved phase III trial, which evaluated the safety and efficacy of Jardiance 10mg compared to placebo and standard of care therapy. absolute risk reduction, 0.79

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ASCO 2023: Keytruda becomes a new option in perioperative NSCLC  

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in the placebo arm (hazard ratio [HR]: 0.58). months in the placebo arm (HR: 0.73). In March 2022, the FDA approved Bristol Myers Squibb’s PD-1 inhibitor Opdivo (nivolumab) for use in the neoadjuvant setting, giving it the first-to-market-advantage, based on results from the Phase III CHECKMATE-816 study.

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