In the final weeks of 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced three approvals of anticancer therapeutics. These decisions brought the total number of new anticancer therapeutics approved by the FDA in 2018 to 18, a record in recent years. In addition, the agency approved expanding the use of 10 previously approved anticancer therapeutics to include new types of cancer in 2018.
The FDA approved a targeted therapeutic for treating patients with breast cancer that tests positive for a cancer-associated BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations.
The FDA approved a molecularly targeted therapeutic for treating certain patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
The FDA approved a new molecularly targeted therapeutic called for treating certain patients with blood cancer.
The FDA approved a new immunotherapeutic for treating patients with a type of skin cancer called cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
The FDA expanded the use of nivolumab to include treating certain patients with small cell lung cancer.
The FDA approved a new molecularly targeted therapeutic for treating certain patients with a rare form of leukemia called hairy cell leukemia.
The FDA expanded the use of a molecularly targeted therapeutic to treat patients with the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma.
The FDA approved a combination of a molecularly targeted therapeutic and an immunotherapy for treating patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.
The FDA approved a targeted radiotherapeutic for treating certain patients with two types of neuroendocrine tumors.
AACR Fellow Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, leads a national effort targeting triple-negative breast cancer and ovarian cancer with a novel drug combination.
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