Prostate Cancer

EU Regulator Starts its Review of Cidara Therapeutics’ Candidiasis Therapy Rezafungin The EU regulator has begun its review of Cidara Therapeutics’ once-weekly antifungal rezafungin, with a decision expected next year as a new option for serious, invasive candida infections. The application is based on the ReSTO...

Novartis’ Canakinumab Fails in Phase III Trials for NSCLC Canakinumab's prospects as an anticancer therapy were already dwindling when a third phase III trial in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) failed to reach its objectives. The most recent setback came from the CANOPY-A study, which included patients with N...

FDA Approves AstraZeneca’s Enhertu as First Targeted Therapy for HER2-low Cancer Enhertu, developed by AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo, has been approved by the FDA as the first targeted therapy for HER2-low breast cancer, a new subtype of the disease previously categorized as HER2-negative. It has the potential ...

Byondis Files its HER2-Targeting Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) Trastuzumab Duocarmazine in the US and Europe Byondis has filed for clearance of its HER2-targeting antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) trastuzumab duocarmazine in the United States and Europe, setting up a battle with heavyweight competitors Roche and Ast...

Sanofi’s Rare Disease Drug Xenpozyme Wins World’s First Approval in Japan Sanofi’s Xenpozyme, also known as olipudase alfa, the world's first therapy for the rare disease Niemann-Pick type A/B and B, has been approved for the treatment of children and adults with non-CNS manifestations of Acid Sphingomyelinase D...

NHS Grants Fast Track Access to Takeda’s Exkivity Takeda has secured UK approval for its lung cancer therapy Exkivity, with an NHS access deal that could see it prescribed to patients within the next few weeks. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has granted conditional marketing authorisa...

Use of CAR-T treatments and their efficacy in Prostate Cancer We already know that Immunotherapies have not performed well in the treatment of prostate cancer. Such medicines have failed to elicit a long-term response in patients with advanced prostate cancer. Surgery, radiation treatment, chemotherapy, androgen...

Major Key player Arvinas announced completed Phase I and interim Phase II ARDENT data for ARV-110 degrader targeting the androgen receptor (AR). According to the results, Arvinas mentioned that at the data cut-off date, December 20, 2021, the PSA50 response rate was 46% in 28 patients with AR T878X/H875Y tumor muta...

According to the findings of the ARASENS trial (NCT02799602), presented by Bayer at the 2022 ASCO GU, Nubeqa resulted in a 32.5% reduction in the risk of death, with a median follow-up of 43.7 months for darolutamide.  Nubeqa provided a consistent overall survival advantage across predefined subgroups. The med...

Preliminary findings of Phase I/II dose-expansion study of DS-7300 (a B7-H3 antibody-drug conjugate) in mCRPC patients backed B7-H3 as a potential new target in treatment-resistant prostate cancers (Abstract #87) Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have resulted in significant therapeutic advancements in a wide r...