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Alectinib (Alecensa) received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for the treatment of adult...

RECENT APPROVALS: Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) was approved by the FDA for the treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors express...

• Everolimus (Afinitor) has been approved by the European Commission for treatment of unresectable or metastatic, well-differentiated (grade 1 or grade 2) nonfunctional neuroendocrine...

• Clovis Oncology is shutting down patient enrollment in clinical trials of its lung cancer drug rociletinib, which targets T790m, a mutation responsible for...