Suzhou-based CStone Pharmaceuticals' checkpoint inhibitor sugemalimab has proved effective in a trial as a first-line therapy for oesophageal cancer, setting up a regulatory filing in China
Bristol-Myers Squibb's Opdivo has been recommended as a treatment for around 3,000 people with rare forms of gastro-oesophageal cancer via the NHS in England and Wales.
Novartis is still waiting for FDA approval of its PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor latecomer tislelizumab in relapsed oesophageal cancer, but is already planning a move the drug into the first-line se
The FDA has cleared two combination drug regimens based on Bristol-Myers Squibb's PD-1 inhibitor Opdivo for previously-untreated advanced oesophageal cancer, encroaching on territory held b
The EU regulator has started a review of Novartis' PD-1 inhibitor tislelizumab – licensed from Chinese biotech BeiGene – for oesophageal and lung cancers, ahead of an FDA decision on the dr
Merck & Co's Keytruda become the first cancer immunotherapy to be approved as a first-line oesophageal cancer treatment in the EU earlier this year, but will now face competition from B