Endocyte, Inc. (Nasdaq:ECYT) announced the enrollment of the first patient in its global phase 3 VISION trial of 177Lu-PSMA-617 in prostate cancer by Dr. Luke Nordquist at Urology Cancer Center in Omaha, NE, a member of Precision Cancer Research.
There is growing awareness of the problems and pitfalls with Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs)
in the United States health care system. Contracted by insurance carriers to negotiate on their
behalf with pharmaceutical companies, these ‘middle men’ corporations have quietly become an
unavoidable part of our nation’s health care system.
Based on data from the phase III SPARTAN trial (ARN-509-003), apalutamide (ARN-509) has been granted a priority review by the FDA for the treatment of patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), according to Janssen Biotech, the manufacturer of the next-generation oral androgen receptor inhibitor.
Janssen Biotech has submitted a New Drug Application to the US Food & Drug Administration for the approval of apalutamide (formerly ARN-509) in the treatment of non-metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC).
first-line pembrolizumab (Keytruda) produced durable responses in cisplatin-ineligible patients with locally advanced and unresectable or metastatic urothelial cancer in the phase II KEYNOTE-052 trial.
