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Opdivo Gains Nod for Gastric Cancer; Spinraza Now Available for All SMA Patients
Ono Pharmaceutical and Bristol-Myers Squibb said on September 22 that their PD-1 inhibitor Opdivo (nivolumab) has been approved in Japan for unresectable advanced/recurrent gastric cancer, the sixth indication in the country that could treat 4,600 patients annually. The Ministry of…
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