ONCOLOGY NEWSFEED

On March 14, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved tislelizumabjsgr as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after prior systemic chemotherapy that did not include a PD-(L)1 inhibitor.

For more information read the BeiGene announcement .

Posted 3/15/2024

On February 27, PharmaEssentia, announced that the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) have recently been updated to include ropeginterferon alfa-2b-njft, marketed as BESREMi®, as a preferred first-line cytoreductive therapy option for the treatment of adults with symptomatic, low-risk polycythemia vera.

For more information read the PharmaEssentia announcement .

Posted 3/13/2024

On March 7, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to zanubrutinib in combination with obinutuzumab for relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy.

For more information read the FDA announcement and BeiGene announcement .

Posted 3/11/2024

On March 6, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved nivolumab in combination with cisplatin and gemcitabine for first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Bristol-Myers Squibb announcement .

Posted 3/11/2024

On March 6, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved inotuzumab ozogamicin for pediatric patients 1 year and older with relapsed or refractory CD22-positive B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

For more information read the FDA announcement .

Posted 3/8/2024

On March 1, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved amivantamab-vmjw in combination with carboplatin and pemetrexed for the first-line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor exon 20 insertion mutations, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Janssen announcement .

Posted 3/8/2024

On February 16, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved osimertinib in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors have EGFR exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R mutations, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals announcement .

Posted 2/19/2024

On February 16, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to lifileucel, a tumor-derived autologous T cell immunotherapy, for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma previously treated with a PD-1 blocking antibody, and if BRAF V600 positive, a BRAF inhibitor with or without a MEK inhibitor.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. announcement .

Posted 2/19/2024

On February 15, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted traditional approval to tepotinib for adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer harboring mesenchymal-epithelial transition exon 14 skipping alterations.

For more information read the FDA announcement .

Posted 2/16/2024

On February 13, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved irinotecan liposome in combination with oxaliplatin, fluorouracil, and leucovorin, for the first-line treatment of metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

For more information read the FDA announcement .

Posted 2/13/2024

On January 19, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved erdafitinib for adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma with susceptible FGFR3 genetic alterations, as determined by an FDA-approved companion diagnostic test, whose disease has progressed on or after at least one line of prior systemic therapy.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Janssen announcement .

Posted 1/22/2024

On January 12, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pembrolizumab with chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for patients with FIGO 2014 Stage III-IVA cervical cancer.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Merck announcement .

Posted 1/15/2024

On December 5, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved iptacopan—offering superior hemoglobin improvement in the absence of transfusions—as the first oral monotherapy for the treatment of adults with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

For more information read the Novartis announcement .

Posted 12/18/2023

On December 15, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved enfortumab vedotin-ejfv in combination with pembrolizumab for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer.

For more information read the FDA announcement , Astellas Pharma announcement , and Merck announcement .

Posted 12/18/2023

On December 14, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved belzutifan for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma following a programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1) or programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitor and a vascular endothelial growth factor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (VEGF-TKI).

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Merck announcement .

Posted 12/18/2023

On December 13, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved eflornithine to reduce the risk of relapse in adult and pediatric patients with high-risk neuroblastoma (HRNB) who have demonstrated at least a partial response to prior multiagent, multimodality therapy including anti-GD2 immunotherapy.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the US WorldMeds announcement .

Posted 12/18/2023

On December 1, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to pirtobrutinib for adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma who have received at least 2 prior lines of therapy, including a BTK inhibitor and a BCL-2 inhibitor.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Eli Lilly announcement .

Posted 12/4/2023

On November 27, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved nirogacestat for adult patients with progressing desmoid tumors who require systemic treatment. This is the first approved treatment for desmoid tumors.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the SpringWorks Therapeutic announcement .

Posted 11/28/2023

On November 16, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved capivasertib in combination with fulvestrant for adult patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer with 1 or more biomarker alterations (PIK3CA, AKT1 or PTEN). Eligible patients will have progressed on at least 1 endocrine-based regimen in the metastatic setting or experienced recurrence on or within 12 months of completing adjuvant therapy.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the AstraZeneca announcement .

Posted 11/17/2023

On November 16, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pembrolizumab in combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adults with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Merck announcement .

Posted 11/17/2023

On November 15, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved repotrectinib for locally advanced or metastatic ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This is the first FDA approval that includes patients with ROS1-positive NSCLC who have previously received a ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), in addition to patients who are TKI naïve.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Bristol Myers Squibb announcement .

Posted 11/17/2023

On November 8, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved fruquintinib for adult patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who received prior fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy, an anti-VEGF therapy, and, if RAS wild-type and medically appropriate, an anti-EGFR therapy.

For more information read the FDA announcement .

Posted 11/9/2023

On November 2, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final calendar year (CY) 2024 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and the CY 2024 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule. ACCC is analyzing the regulation and will provide a summary and analysis of areas of interest to its members in the near future.

For more information on the PFS rule, click here .

For more information on the OOPS rule, click here .

For more information on the related CMS summaries click here and here .

Posted 11/3/2023

On October 27, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved toripalimab-tpzi in combination with cisplatin and gemcitabine for the first-line treatment of adults with metastatic or recurrent, locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The FDA also approved toripalimab-tpzi as a single agent for adults with recurrent unresectable or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma with disease progression on or after a platinum-containing chemotherapy.

For more information read the FDA announcement and the Coherus BioSciences announcement .

Posted 11/1/2023