Takeda Pharmaceutical said on November 8 that the US FDA has given the green light to fruquintinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor licensed from Chinese biopharma Hutchmed, for the treatment of certain patients with previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). The…
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