ONO Receives Approval of Opdivo® (Nivolumab) for Additional Indications of Unresectable Advanced or Recurrent Esophageal Cancer, and MSI-High Unresectable Advanced or Recurrent Colorectal Cancer in Japan for a Partial Change in Approved Items of Manufacturing and Marketing Approval
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Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd....and Bristol-Myers Squibb...announced today that ONO received approval of Opdivo® (generic name: nivolumab) Intravenous Infusion (“Opdivo”), a human anti-human programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) monoclonal antibody in Japan for the following two additional indications, for a partial change in approved items of the manufacturing and marketing approval:...Microsatellite instability high (MSI-High) unresectable advanced or recurrent colorectal cancer that has progressed following chemotherapy...
Efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade in patients with advanced upper tract urothelial cancer and mismatch repair deficiency or microsatellite instability (MSI).
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02/08/2021
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Ten pts were identified with locally advanced unresectable (N = 3) or metastatic (N = 7) dMMR/MSI UTUC who received therapy with IC blockade (pembrolizumab = 7, nivolumab = 2, atezolizumab = 1). Median age was 65.5 (range = 46 – 90). Six pts were male. Seven pts had germline dMMR. MSI was detected by PCR in three pts and dMMR by IHC in seven pts...all pts were alive, and none experienced disease progression. PFS and OS at 15.5 months were 100%. The observed ORR was 90% (CI, 55.5%, 99.8%)...