New Approvals

FDA Approves Nirogacestat for Adult Patients with Progressing Desmoid Tumors

By: Dr. Anish Shah Bronx-Lebanon Hospital; Bronx, NY On the date of approval, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Nirogacestat (Ogsiveo)…

11 months ago

Capivasertib Gets FDA Approval for Treatment of HR-Positive, HER2-Negative Breast Cancer

By: Dr. Anish Shah Bronx-Lebanon Hospital; Bronx, NY   On November 16, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved capivasertib (Truqap,…

11 months ago

FDA Grants accelerated approval to Pirtobrutinib for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma with Prior Therapy

By: Dr. Anish Shah Bronx-Lebanon Hospital; Bronx, NY The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval for Pirtobrutinib (Jaypirca) to be…

11 months ago

FDA Approves Fruquintinib for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer with Prior Treatment History

By: Dr. Anish Shah Bronx-Lebanon Hospital; Bronx, NY On November 8, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to Fruquintinib…

12 months ago

FDA Approves Toripalimab for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

By: Dr. Anish Shah  Bronx-Lebanon Hospital; Bronx, NY On October 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved toripalimab-tpzi (Loqtorzi) in combination…

1 year ago

Ivosidenib in Mutant IDH1 Relapsed/ Refractory Myelodysplastic Syndrome: Updated Substudy Results

By: Dr. Kanak Parmar On October 24, 2023 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ivosidenib for adult patients with…

1 year ago

FDA approves Pembrolizumab for resectable NSCLC in both neoadjuvant and adjuvant setting

By Dr. Kanak Parmer Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center   On October 16,2023 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…

1 year ago

FDA approves Encorafenib with Binimetinib for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

On October 11, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to Encorafenib (BRAF inhibitor) with Binimetinib (MEK inhibitor)…

1 year ago

FDA Approves Bosutinib for Pediatric Patients with Philadelphia Chromosome–Positive Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

On September 26, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the approval of bosutinib (Bosulif) to include pediatric patients 1…

1 year ago

FDA Approves Luspatercept-aamt for Anemia in Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes

On August 28, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved luspatercept-aamt (Reblozyl) for the treatment of anemia in adult patients with…

1 year ago