A Japanese health ministry proposal to impose steeper price cuts on certain medicines deemed to carry poor cost-effectiveness profiles cleared…
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Datroway Filed for 1st-Line TNBC in Japan: Daiichi Sankyo
Daiichi Sankyo said on February 12 that it has filed in Japan for a label expansion of its TROP2-directed antibody drug conjugate Datroway (datopotamab deruxtecan) to the first-line treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The drug was submitted for patients…
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