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Targeted drug Selpercatinib has received accelerated approval from the FDA. It is cancer-independent and may benefit any solid tumour with a positive RET gene fusion. It is up to 84% effective in selected patients with non-small cell lung cancer!

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to Adagrasib for the treatment of patients with KRAS G12C mutations in non-small cell lung cancer. In the trial, the drug resulted in disease control in 80% of patients, of which, 43% had substantial tumour shrinkage.

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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 recently published by the Royal Marsden Cancer Centre showed promising data for the combination of Avutometinib + Defactinib in the treatment of ovarian cancer, resulting in significant tumour shrinkage in 28% of patients and disease control in 93% of patients.

The US FDA has approved a new leukaemia drug, Olutasidenib, which has been shown to be effective and has a controlled safety profile, resulting in the complete disappearance of cancer cells in 35% of patients enrolled, with efficacy lasting up to 25.9 months.

The US FDA has approved Elacestrant, the first oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer who are estrogen receptor positive, HER2 negative and have an ESR1 mutation. Results of the trial showed that patients treated with Elacestrant had a 45% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death.

The US FDA has accelerated the approval of the new drug Pirtobrutinib for the treatment of relapsed or refractory set of cell lymphomas. The drug led to substantial tumour disappearance in 50% of patients, with 13% of them having complete tumour disappearance.

The global ADC drug market will be approximately $5.2 billion by 2021

The FDA has recently granted orphan drug designation to Ezurpimtrostat, a PPT-1 inhibitor for the treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).