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Onco-Summaries: Daily Oncology Updates at a Glance
07/08/2025 ProteinQure's PQ203 received the Fast track designation for TNBC (Ref) The US FDA granted the Fast Track designation to ProteinQure's PQ203 (SORT1 targeting peptide drug conjugate) for the treatment of patients with triple negative breast cancer. ProteinQure also received regulatory clearance from both the US FDA and Health Canada to initiate a Phase 1 trial evaluating the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and anti-cancer activity of PQ203 The Phase 1 stud

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Aug 8, 20251 min read


Onco-Summaries: Daily Oncology Updates at a Glance
06/08/2025 Jazz Pharmaceuticals' Modeyso received accelerated approval from the FDA for Recurrent H3 K27M-mutant Diffuse Midline Glioma (Ref) The US FDA granted accelerated approval to Jazz Pharmaceuticals' Modeyso™ (dordaviprone; oral antagonist of dopamine receptor D2 and agonist of ClpP) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 1 year of age and older with diffuse midline glioma harboring an H3 K27M mutation with progressive disease following prior therapy. Contin

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Aug 7, 20251 min read


Onco-Summaries: Daily Oncology Updates at a Glance
18/07/2025 ImCheck’s ICT01 received the Orphan Drug Designation for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (Ref) The US FDA granted the Orphan Drug Designation to ImCheck Therapeutics' ICT01 (anti-BTN3A) for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia Stephan Braun, CMO, ImCheck Therapeutics: "Receiving FDA orphan drug designation for ICT01 is a significant recognition of ICT01’s innovative therapeutic potential to meet the urgent unmet medical needs of AML patients. This important regulatory m

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Jul 21, 20251 min read


Onco-Summaries: Daily Oncology Updates at a Glance
17/07/2025 Johnson & Johnson received Priority Review for TAR-200 from the US FDA in high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (Ref) The US FDA granted Priority Review to Johnson & Johnson's NDA filed for TAR-200 (intravesical gemcitabine releasing system) for the treatment of BCG-unresponsive, high-risk NMIBC with carcinoma in situ (CIS), with or without papillary tumors. The filing was based on results from the Phase 2b SunRISe-1 trial which demonstrated a CR of 82.4% wi

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Jul 18, 20251 min read


Onco-Summaries: Daily Oncology Updates at a Glance
10/07/2025 TEVIMBRA + chemotherapy has been approved in EU as a first-line treatment for NPC (Ref) The EC approved BeOne Medicines' tislelizumab (TEVIMBRA; anti-PD-1) + gemcitabine + cisplatin for the first-line treatment of adult patients with metastatic or recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), not amenable to curative surgery or radiotherapy The approval is based on results from the Phase 3 RATIONALE-309 trial which met the primary endpoint of PFS (HR 0.52; p<0.0001)

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Jul 11, 20252 min read


Onco-Summaries: Daily Oncology Updates at a Glance
07/07/2025 SIR-Spheres® Y-90 Resin Microspheres received FDA approval for HCC (Ref) The US FDA approved Sirtex Medical's SIR-Spheres Y-90 resin microspheres for the Tx of unresectable HCC The approval is based on the results from the prospective, multi-center, open-label DOORwaY90 trial DOORwaY90 met its prespecified primary endpoints with a ORR of 98.5%; the median DoR exceeded 300 days Matt Schmidt, CEO, Sirtex: "The expanded indication makes SIR-Spheres® the only Y-90 tr

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Jul 8, 20251 min read


Onco-Summaries: Daily Oncology Updates at a Glance
02/07/2025 Lynozyfic received accelerated approval from the US FDA for R/R Multiple Myeloma (Ref) Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced that the US FDA granted accelerated approval for linvoseltamab-gcpt (Lynozyfic; BCMA x CD3 bispecific antibody) for patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) multiple myeloma who have received at least four prior lines of therapy, including a proteasome inhibitor, an immunomodulatory agent and an anti‑CD38 monoclonal antibody The accelerated a

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Jul 3, 20252 min read


Onco-Summaries: Daily Oncology Updates at a Glance
12/06/2025 MAIA Biotechnology and Roche announce a master clinical supply agreement for hard-to-treat cancer therapies (Ref) MAIA Biotechnology entered into a clinical master supply agreement with Roche for future trials evaluating MAIA’s ateganosine (THIO; telomere-targeting agent) in combination with Roche's atezolizumab (Tecentriq; anti-PD-L1) for the treatment of multiple hard-to-treat cancers. Ateganosine's highly synergistic and effective activity in combination with at

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Jun 20, 20252 min read
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