Global Bulletin

Findings from 2 phase 3 trials support the recommendation to approve sodium thiosulfate to reduce the risk of cisplatin-related hearing loss in pediatric patients with solid tumors in Europe.

Findings from the phase 3 TRANSFORM study support the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use’s recommendation to approve lisocabtagene maraleucel for large B-cell lymphoma.

Findings from 2 clinical trials support the approval of acalabrutinib as a treatment for patients with mantle cell lymphoma in China.

Investigators plan to submit a communication application to seek marketing approval in China for ARX788 as therapy for HER2-positive advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

Disparities in pediatric cancer survival in Europe might be mitigated through cross-border care, twinning programs, and use of pan-Europe cancer control plans.

The phase 3 TORCHLIGHT study, examining toripalimab and paclitaxel, has become the first study in China to achieve positive outcomes with immunotherapy for triple-negative breast cancer.

Adult patients with previously treated unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer in China can now receive treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan.

Patients from China with unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma can now be treated with tislelizumab plus chemotherapy following its approval.

Adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the European Union can now receive treatment with acalabrutinib tablets.

Data from the European phase 1 MB-105 trial indicate that the safety profile of annamycin in geriatric advance acute myeloid leukemia are consistent with previously reported findings.

The European Commission approval for trastuzumab deruxtecan in HER2-low metastatic breast cancer is based on data from the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast04 trial.

The National Medical Products Administration of China gives approval to mobocertinib for patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.

Japanese patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma can now receive treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel following its approval.

The Japanese approval of acalabrutinib for the treatment of patients with treatment-naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia was supported by data from the phase 3 ELEVATE-TN trial.

The decision to approve durvalumab plus tremelimumab in Japan for patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer and unresectable biliary tract cancer and liver cancer was based on data from several phase 3 studies.

Olaparib in combination with abiraterone and prednisone or prednisolone alone has been approved as treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in the European Union.

Patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma in the European Union can now receive treatment with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki following its approval.

Fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki has been recommended for approval by the European Union’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use in patients with HER2-low advanced breast cancer.

177Lu vipivotide tetraxetan becomes first targeted radioligand treatment approved by the European Commission for prostate-specific membrane antigen–positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The marketing authorization application for oral momelotinib in myelofibrosis has been approved by the European Medicines Agency.

The European Commission’s approval of cemiplimab for recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer marks the first second-line immunotherapy option available for this patient population regardless of tumor histology.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has given a positive opinion of mobocertinib as a treatment for previously treated advanced non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations.

The European Commission based its approval of zanubrutinib for the management of chronic lymphocytic leukemia on data from the phase 3 SEQUOIA trial and the phase 3 ALPINE trial.

The European Commission based its approval of axicabtagene ciloleucel as a second-line therapy for patients with relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma or high-grade B-cell lymphoma on the efficacy findings of the phase 3 ZUMA-7 trial.

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare approved pembrolizumab for use in 4 indications, including high-risk, early-stage triple-negative breast cancer, stage IIB or IIC melanoma, adjuvant renal cell carcinoma, and recurrent/metastatic cervical cancer.

The European Commission based its approval of nivolumab/relatlimab for patients with a PD-L1 expression of less than 1% on the results of the phase 2/3 RELATIVITY-047 trial.

Olaparib and bevacizumab has been approved in China as a frontline maintenance treatment for patients with advanced homologous recombination deficiency–positive ovarian cancer based on results from the phase 3 PAOLA-1 trial.

Results from the phase 3 ASCEMBL trial led to the approval of asciminib by the European Commission for patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positive chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase.

The European Commission approved olaparib as monotherapy or in combination with endocrine therapy for patients with germline BRCA1/2-mutant, HER2-negative high-risk early breast cancer.

Patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma appear to benefit from treatment with teclistamab, which was given a positive opinion by the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use.