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Dr. Reddy’s launches Toripalimab under the brand name Zytorvi in India

Express Pharma

The standard of care for RM-NPC in India before Toripalimab was chemotherapy (gemcitabine and cisplatin). Additionally, Toripalimab has also been approved as monotherapy for the treatment of adults with recurrent unresectable or metastatic NPC with disease progression on or after platinum-containing chemotherapy.

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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

STAT

Still, when doctors told her last year that the cancer was growing despite two operations, radiation therapy, and a fifth regimen of chemotherapy, the retired business-meeting facilitator decided to do something unorthodox: spend $83,000 out of pocket on an unproven experimental cancer vaccine.

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Immunotherapy to become standard treatment for infants with ALL

European Pharmaceutical Review

Blinatumomab significantly improved survival, with the rate increasing from 66 percent to 93 percent, compared to individuals just given prior chemotherapy. Monoclonal antibody ( mAb ) blinatumomab binds to leukaemia cells on one side and to immune cells on the other side.

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EC approves Libtayo® for metastatic cervical cancer

European Pharmaceutical Review

s Libtayo ® (cemiplimab) for adults with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer and disease progression while on or after platinum-based chemotherapy. “Libtayo ® was the first programmed cell death protein (PD)-1 inhibitor to demonstrate significant improvements in survival compared to chemotherapy in a Phase III trial.

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FDA pulls AZ’s Evusheld for COVID, citing lack of efficacy

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Evusheld (tixagevimab and cilgavimab) was cleared by the FDA towards the end of 2021, becoming the first antibody to be authorised for prevention of COVID-19 infection, and it rapidly found use among people with compromised immune systems, such as cancer chemotherapy and organ-transplant patients.

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AstraZeneca to acquire TeneoTwo and its blood-cancer therapeutic

European Pharmaceutical Review

By binding to both CD19, an antigen expressed on B-cells, and to the CD3 receptor on T-cells, TNB-486 activates and recruits T-cells to CD19-expressing tumours where they can elicit an immune response. “By The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory clearances.

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Immunocore claims first-ever FDA approval for TCR cancer therapy

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At the moment the only other BiTE to reach the US market is Amgen’s CD19-targeting Blincyto (blinatumomab), which has been approved for various types of leukaemia and made $340 million in sales in the first nine months of 2021.