PADCEV approved by Health Canada to treat advanced bladder cancer

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KIRKLAND – Pfizer Canada ULC announced that Health Canada has approved PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin) an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) in combination with pembrolizumab, a PD-1 inhibitor, for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer (la/mUC) with no prior systemic therapy for mUC. The approval was made under the Health Canada Priority Review process, after having met the …

Datopotamab deruxtecan combinations showed encouraging tumour responses

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London – Updated results from the TROPION-Lung02 Phase Ib trial showed that, with additional enrolment and follow-up from the initial presentation, datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) in combination with pembrolizumab with or without platinum-based chemotherapy demonstrated promising clinical activity and no new safety signals in both previously untreated or pretreated patients with advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) without actionable genomic alterations (AGAs). Results …