CHMP meeting highlights – December 2022
A total of five drugs were recommended for approval at the CHMP’s December meeting, including a gene therapy and two cancer drugs.
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A total of five drugs were recommended for approval at the CHMP’s December meeting, including a gene therapy and two cancer drugs.
The FDA has approved Imfinzi™ combined with Imjudo for adults with unresectable liver cancer, based on a lower risk of death compared to only sorafenib.
Almost a third of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma patients were alive at three years on tremelimumab and Imfinzi regimen.
Imfinzi (durvalumab) demonstrated a meaningful overall survival (OS) benefit versus sorafenib as a first-line treatment for liver cancer.
Roughly 17.6 percent of patients treated with Imfinzi plus chemotherapy were alive at three years, versus 5.8 percent of chemotherapy patients.
Imfinizi™ and tremelimumab in combination with chemotherapy improved non-small lung cancer (NSCLC) survival by 23 percent in a Phase III study.
AstraZeneca and MedImmune, have today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted breakthrough therapy designation for Imfinzi for the treatment of patients with locally-advanced, unresectable non-small cell lung cancer...