FDA Approves WELIREG® (belzutifan) for the Treatment of Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Following a PD-1 or PD-L1 Inhibitor and a VEGF-TKI
“Despite recent progress in the treatment of advanced RCC, there is yet to be an option specifically approved for patients whose disease progresses following a PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor and a TKI therapy,” said Dr. Toni K. Choueiri, LITESPARK-005 study chair, director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School. “This approval of belzutifan introduces a meaningful new treatment option for certain patients, as belzutifan reduced the risk of disease progression or death compared to everolimus.”
Share:
More News
“We are encouraged by the progress of our clinical trial and remain focused on our goal to develop innovative therapies that can address glioblastoma and other cancers. Although we are unable to provide detailed information at this stage, we are excited about the continued advancement of this important program,” said
“We are disappointed in the outcome of the RELATIVITY-098 trial and that LAG-3 inhibition in the adjuvant setting did not lead to the same improved efficacy outcomes seen in advanced melanoma,” said Jeffrey Walch, M.D., Ph.D., vice president, Opdualag global program lead, Bristol Myers Squibb. “Patients whose tumors are completely
Ahsan Arozullah, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Vice President, Head of Oncology Development, Astellas said, “The combination of enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab was the first approval to offer an alternative to platinum-containing chemotherapy, which had been the standard of care for first-line locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer for decades. We are
“U.S. FDA has accepted for review the resubmission of the BLA for linvoseltamab for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) multiple myeloma (MM) who have received at least four prior lines of therapy or those who received three prior lines of therapy and are refractory to the last
