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Japan s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Grants Priority Review for Enfortumab Vedotin New Drug Application
NDA, submitted in March, is for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer that has progressed after anti-cancer medication
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TOKYO, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., Astellas ) today announced Japan s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has granted priority review for the company s New Drug Application (NDA), which was submitted in March. If approved, enfortumab vedotin would be the first antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) available in Japan for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer that has progressed after anti-cancer medication.
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TOKYO, May 7, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - Eisai Co., Ltd.and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted and granted priority review for applications seeking two new approvals for the combination of LENVIMA, the orally available multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor discovered by Eisai, plus KEYTRUDA, the anti-PD-1 therapy from Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. The first set of applications (a supplemental New Drug Application [sNDA] for LENVIMA and a supplemental Biologics License Application [sBLA] for KEYTRUDA) are for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), based on progression-free surv
Applications Based on Progression-Free Survival, Overall Survival, and Objective Response Rate Data From Respective Pivotal Phase 3 Trials Merck known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Eisai Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted and granted priority review for applications seeking two new approvals for the combination of KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, … Applications Based on Progression-Free Survival, Overall Survival, and Objective Response Rate Data From Respective Pivotal Phase 3 Trials Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Eisai Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted and granted priority review for applications seeking two new approvals for the combination of KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, plus LENVIMA, the orally available multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor discovered by Eisai. The first set of applications (a suppl
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