Targeting HER2-positive Breast Cancer
The FDA approved a molecularly targeted therapeutic for treating certain patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.
Progress Against Cancer
The FDA approved a molecularly targeted therapeutic for treating certain patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.
The FDA’s recent announcement means the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab is now approved for five forms of cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for the treatment of certain...
The FDA approved the first cancer treatment for use based on the tumor having certain biomarkers and not where in the body the tumor originated.
The FDA approved an immune checkpoint inhibitor – a type of immunotherapy – to treat certain patients with bladder cancer.
The FDA has approved a new immune checkpoint inhibitor, durvalumab, for the treatment of certain bladder cancer patients.
The FDA expanded the use of regorafenib to treat certain patients with the most common form of liver cancer diagnosed in the U.S. – hepatocellular carcinoma.
The FDA approved a molecularly targeted therapeutic for the maintenance treatment of patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian and other cancers.
The FDA issued the first-ever approval of a treatment for patients with a rare, aggressive form of skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma.
The FDA expanded the use of the immunotherapeutic pembrolizumab to include the treatment of certain patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.
A molecularly targeted therapeutic was approved for use in combination with any aromatase inhibitor for the treatment of postmenopausal women with a certain form of breast cancer.
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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