Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) unveiled exceptional results from their LIBRETTO-531 study of Retevmo (selpercatinib), setting a new standard in the treatment of advanced RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). The Phase 3 clinical trial distinctly highlights Retevmo’s superiority over existing first-line treatments, namely multikinase inhibitors cabozantinib and vandetanib. Retevmo demonstrated a statistically significant and […]
Swiss pharma giant Roche and US precision therapy company Blueprint Medicines have entered into a worldwide licensing and collaboration deal potentially worth up to $1.703 billion for the latter’s cancer drug candidate pralsetinib. Through the deal, Roche gains exclusive rights for the co-development and marketing of the investigational drug for RET-altered cancers across the world […]
Selpercatinib FDA approval : The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Eli Lilly and Company’s Retevmo (selpercatinib) capsules for the treatment of three types of tumors – non-small cell lung cancer, medullary thyroid cancer and other types of thyroid cancers. The approvals are for the drug to be used in patients whose tumors […]
Retevmo FDA approval : Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) has secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Retevmo (selpercatinib, 40mg and 80mg capsules) for the treatment of adults with metastatic rearranged during transfection (RET) fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Retevmo has also been approved by the FDA for the treatment […]
COSMIC-311 clinical trial : US biotech company Exelixis has enrolled the first 100 patients in a phase 3 trial called COSMIC-311 for evaluating cabozantinib (CABOMETYX) against placebo in a type of thyroid cancer. The COSMIC-311 trial will feature patients having radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer who have progressed following up to a couple of vascular […]
