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Category: Cablivi

  • NICE okays Roche liver cancer immunotherapy, Sanofi’s rare disease drug

    Previously-untreated patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a common form of liver cancer, will have an immunotherapy-based treatment option after NICE gave the nod to NHS funding of Roche’s Tecentriq and Avastin combination therapy. The decision by NICE comes shortly after Tecentriq (atezolizumab) and Avastin (bevacizumab) was approved by the European Commission as a first-line treatment […]

  • Caplacizumab (Cablivi) for iTTP

    Date:  October 19, 2020 Issue #:  1609 Summary:  Caplacizumab-yhdp (Cablivi – Sanofi /Genzyme), a von Willebrand factor-directed antibody fragment, has been approved by the FDA for use in combination with plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy for treatment of immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP; formerly called acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura [aTTP]) in adults. It is the […]