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The European Commission has approved atezolizumab for use as an adjuvant treatment following complete resection and platinum-based chemotherapy in adult patients with non–small cell lung cancer and a high risk of recurrence whose tumors do not have EGFR mutations or ALK alterations but have a PD-L1 expression of 50% or higher.

The European Commission has granted a conditional marketing authorization for mosunetuzumab for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma who have previously received at least 2 systemic therapies.

The BTK inhibitor zanubrutinib has been approved in Uruguay for the treatment of adult patients with previously treated mantle cell lymphoma, relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma, and Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

The European Commission has approved the combination of polatuzumab vedotin and rituximab and cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone for use in adult patients with previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of pembrolizumab for use as adjuvant therapy in adult and adolescent patients aged 12 years and older with stage IIB or IIC melanoma following complete resection.

A marketing authorization application has been submitted to the European Medicines Agency seeking the approval of adagrasib for therapeutic use in previously treated patients with non–small cell lung cancer harboring a KRAS G12C mutation.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of selinexor in combination with bortezomib and low-dose dexamethasone for use in adult patients with multiple myeloma who have previously received 1 to 3 prior lines of treatment.

The European Commission has approved the CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor T-cell agent tisagenlecleucel for the treatment of adults with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma following at least 2 lines of systemic therapy.

The European Commission has approved the use of cabozantinib for use as a single agent in adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma who are refractory or not eligible to receive radioactive iodine and who have progressed during or following previous systemic treatment.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab alone after surgery for adult patients with locally advanced or early-stage triple-negative breast cancer who are at a high risk for recurrence.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended approval under conditional marketing authorization for mosunetuzumab for use in adult patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma who have previously received at least 2 therapies.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended granting marketing authorization to capmatinib for use as a single agent in select adult patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer harboring a METex14 skipping alteration.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion supporting the approval of adjuvant atezolizumab, after complete resection and platinum-based chemotherapy, in adult patients with non–small cell lung cancer with a high risk of recurrence and whose tumors express PD-L1 of 50% or higher and do not harbor EGFR mutations or ALK alterations.

The China National Medical Products Administration has approved tislelizumab for use in patients with locally advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who have disease progression or who are intolerant to frontline standard chemotherapy.

Avelumab is now a treatment option for patients with urothelial cancer in the United Kingdom following a recommendation from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence issued Thursday, April 7, 2022.1

The China National Medical Products Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation has granted a breakthrough therapy designation to relmacabtagene autoleucel for use in the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Marketing authorization applications seeking the approval of tislelizumab in patients with advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma following previous systemic chemotherapy and in select patients with non–small cell lung cancer have been submitted to the European Medicines Agency.

The European Commission has approved the dual immunotherapy combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab for use in the frontline treatment of adult patients with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who had a PD-L1 expression of 1% or higher on tumor cells.

The European Commission has granted marketing authorization to the CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel for use in adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, and follicular lymphoma grade 3B following 2 or more lines of systemic treatment.

The European Commission has approved nivolumab in combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-based chemotherapy for the frontline treatment of adult patients with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with a PD-L1 expression of 1% or higher on tumor cells.

The European Commission has approved nivolumab for use in the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma and a PD-L1 expression of 1% or higher on tumor cells, who are at a high risk of recurrence following radical resection.

The European Medicines Agency has validated its type II variation application for nivolumab in combination with chemotherapy for use in the neoadjuvant treatment of patients with unresectable stage IB to IIIA non–small cell lung cancer.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of pembrolizumab for use in combination with chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab in patients with persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer who have a PD-L1 combined positive score of 1 or higher.

The Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare has accepted a supplemental new drug application for lisocabtagene maraleucel for the second-line treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

The European Commission has expanded the current indication for avapritinib to include use as a single agent in adult patients with aggressive systemic mastocytosis, systemic mastocytosis with an associated hematologic neoplasm, or mast cell leukemia, following at least 1 systemic treatment.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended pembrolizumab for the treatment of adult patients with a variety of microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient tumors.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion in favor of the approval of polatuzumab vedotin for use in combination with rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone in patients with previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medical Products for Human Use has recommended the approval of ruxolitinib for the treatment of patients with acute or chronic graft-vs-host disease who are aged 12 years or older and who have inadequate response to corticosteroids or other systemic therapies.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion recommending the approval of tisagenlecleucel for use in adult patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma following 2 lines of systemic treatment.

A panel of lung cancer experts from China, South Korea, and Japan share their insights on how they care for their patients with resectable EGFR-positive non–small cell lung cancer.