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Hutchmed’s Colorectal Cancer Med Gets FDA’s Priority Review: Takeda

May 29, 2023
Takeda Pharmaceutical said on May 25 that the US FDA has granted a priority review tag for fruquintinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor licensed from Chinese biopharma Hutchmed, for the treatment of adult patients with previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC).…

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