NICE has rejected Johnson & Johnson’s oral prostate cancer drug Erleada (apalutamide) in patients with hormone-relapsed or hormone sensitive disease in first draft guidance.
Johnson & Johnson won’t be filing a prostate cancer therapy combining its Erleada and Zytiga drugs with regulators, after a phase 3 trial showed it didn’t improve survival compared with
Novartis’ radioligand therapy Lu-PSMA-617 has met its target in prostate cancer, as its $2.1 billion acquisition of specialist pharma Endocyte looks to have been justified.
NHS patients in England will not be able to get access to AstraZeneca’s PARP inhibitor Lynparza if they have BRCA-positive advance prostate cancer, according to draft guidance from NICE.
Amanda Barrell speaks to Alfred Samuels on his experience of prostate cancer and diversifying clinical trials to include the Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) community.
Shares in UK biotech Valirx were up sharpy this morning after its lead drug VAL201 showed evidence of efficacy in advanced prostate cancer in its first clinical trial.