pharmaphorum December 19, 2022
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Swiss drugmaker Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ Adstiladrin (nadofaragene firedenovec-vncg) for the treatment of adult patients with high-risk Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with carcinoma in situ (CIS), with or without papillary tumours.
Bladder cancer is one of the more common forms of cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 57,000 men and 8,000 women are diagnosed with bladder cancer annually, and roughly 12,000 men and 4,700 women die from the disease each year in the US.
Most newly diagnosed bladder cancers (75% to 80%) are classified as NMIBC, where cancer cells grow through the lining of the bladder but have not yet invaded the muscle layer. NMIBC...
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