Apparatus

The results of a new study show that Ubamatamab, a bispecific antibody drug, has shown excellent results and a good safety profile in patients with ovarian cancer.

A dendritic cell vaccine has shown excellent results in the treatment of glioblastoma, significantly extending the survival of patients with a good safety profile, according to new data from a global clinical trial. To date, patients who have benefited for the longest time have survived for more than eight years.

On November 4, 2022, the U.S. FDA has approved the marketing of mivituximab soratansine (Elahere), a cutting-edge antibody-coupled drug targeting folate receptor alpha (FRα), for the treatment of adult patients with epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer who have received one to three systemic treatment regimens and are folate receptor alpha (FRα)-positive and platinum-resistant.

According to an announcement from Caribou Biosciences, the FDA has granted advanced therapy designation in regenerative medicine for the cutting-edge CAR-T therapy CB-010 for the treatment of relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma and fast track designation for the treatment of relapsed or refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Data from a study of a cancer vaccine combined with a PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor has recently been released, and the treatment has increased the survival of patients with advanced colorectal cancer by more than three times, with some patients surviving for more than 22 months so far.

A new study shows that for a common type of skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, immunotherapy before surgery resulted in the complete disappearance of tumours in 50.6% of patients and more than 90% in 12.7% of patients.

A study at Massachusetts General Hospital in the US demonstrated that Adagrasib alone and in combination with cetuximab delivered good results in patients with advanced colorectal cancer with KRAS G12C mutations, with 46% of subjects experiencing substantial tumour shrinkage and an efficacy rate of 100%.

Data from a study presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Medical Oncology in 2022 showed that lenvatinib in combination with Pembrolizumab could give 100% efficacy in this group of patients.

The US FDA has approved pemigatinib, the first targeted drug to date for patients with specific mutated blood tumours, and the results of the study show that the drug made tumours disappear completely in 79% of patients!

The FDA granted priority review status to Enhertu (DS-8201) for the treatment of patients with HR-positive, low HER2-expressing breast cancer, and Enhertu has enabled these patients to remain disease-free for an average of 10.1 months, with an average overall survival time of nearly two years. A decision on approval is expected to be made in the fourth quarter of this year.