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Rare lung cancer drug approved in Scotland

August 14, 2018
Manufacturing and Production Cancer, SMC, Scotland, Scottish Medicines Consortium, approval, lung cancer

The Scottish Medicines Consortium has approved Roche’s cancer drug alectinib for the treatment of patients with untreated advanced non-small-cell lung …

Takeda’s Alunbrig topples Pfizer’s Xalkori in ALK-positive lung cancer

July 27, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development Alunbrig, Cancer, NSCLC, Pfizer, Takeda, Xalkori, lung cancer, pharma

Takeda has unveiled new Phase 3 data showing that its tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) Alunbrig (brigatinib) not only met its …

AstraZeneca chalks up double Japanese approval in lung and breast cancer

July 2, 2018
Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cancer, Imfinzi, NSCLD, breast cancer, lung cancer, lynparza, pharma

It’s a big step forward for AstraZeneca’s global marketing operations as the company announced that two of its products have …

Roche’s Tecentriq combo extends life in untreated lung cancer

June 25, 2018
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Roche, lung cancer, pharma, tecentriq

Roche has unveiled new data on the efficacy of Tecentriq (atezolizumab) in combination with chemotherapy (carboplatin and etoposide) for the …

AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi becomes India’s first available immunotherapy for lung cancer

June 22, 2018
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Imfinzi, India, NSCLC, lung cancer, pharma

In a big step forward for India as AstraZeneca announces that its checkpoint inhibitor Imfinzi (durvalumab) has secured approval in …

BMS’ Opdivo becomes first immuno-oncology agent available in China

June 18, 2018
Sales and Marketing BMS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cancer, China, NSCLC, lung cancer, oncology, opdivo, pharma

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s flagship immunotherapy Opdivo (nivolumab) has broken ground to become the first and only PD-1 inhibitor to be made …

Roche’s breast, lung cancer offerings fail to impress at ASCO

June 4, 2018
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing ASCO, Cancer, Roche, breast cancer, lung cancer, pharma, taselisib, tecentriq

Roche made an underwhelming impact at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual event in Chicago, after revealing data …

Roche’s Tecentriq/chemo combo smashes both co-primary endpoints at Phase 3

May 29, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Cancer, NSCLC, Roche, immunotherapy, lung cancer, pharma, tecentriq

Roche has lifted the curtain on new Phase 3 data for its anti-PD-L1 cancer immunotherapy Tecentriq (atezolizumab), showing that the …

AZ’s Imfinzi hits second major milestone at Phase 3 in unresectable lung cancer

May 25, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development AstraZeneca, Imfinzi, NSCLC, lung cancer, pharma

AstraZeneca and its global biologics R&D MedImmune have lifted the curtain on new Phase 3 data for their immunotherapy Imfinzi …

AZ’s Tagrisso gets FDA nod in first-line EGFR-mutated lung cancer

April 19, 2018
Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cancer, EGFR-TKIs, NSCLC, Tagrisso, lung cancer, pharma

AstraZeneca has announced that its epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) Tagrisso (osimertinib) has received approval from …

Keytruda success continues, beating Opdivo in lung cancer survival

April 17, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Cancer, MSD, NSCLC, keytruda, lung cancer, pharma

Not content with revealing two strong waves of data on its flagship immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab) over the past weeks, MSD …

Hanmi terminates lung cancer drug after being muscled out by AZ’s Tagrisso

April 13, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development AstraZeneca, Cancer, Otila, Tagrisso, hanmi, lung cancer, pharma

South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical has announced its intention to terminate development of its lung cancer drug Olita (olmutinib) as it …

Keytruda scores big as a first-line monotherapy in NSCLC patients with any level of PD-L1 expression

April 10, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Cancer, MSD, NSCLC, keytruda, lung cancer, pharma

Closely following the news that Keytruda (pembrolizumab) had failed in the treatment of unresectable or metastatic melanoma as a combination …

Tecentriq third time lucky after NICE nod in lung cancer

April 9, 2018
Sales and Marketing NICE, Roche, biotech, drugs, lung cancer, pharma, pharmaceutical, tecentriq

After having been knocked by twice by NICE, Roche has finally received a recommendation for Tecentriq’s second-line use in non-small …

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