FDA Advisory Committee Vote on Benefit-Risk Profile of PD-1 Inhibitors, including TEVIMBRA®, for Treatment of ESCC and Gastric/GEJ Cancers recommends a class-wide PD-L1 expression level cut-off across PD-1 inhibitors

“The vote by ODAC members to recommend a class-level cut-off of PD-L1 expression for PD-1 inhibitors used in the treatment of gastric/GEJ cancers and ESCC will help to establish a standard for clinicians and the patients they treat,” said Mark Lanasa, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer, Solid Tumors at BeiGene. “We look forward to working with the FDA as it completes its review of our BLAs for TEVIMBRA, and we strive to bring this therapy to applicable patients in the U.S.”
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