The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on February 25 approved additional indications for a throng of medicines including Eli Lilly’s RET kinase inhibitor Retevmo (selpercatinib) and MSD’s PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab). Retevmo was approved in September 2021 and…
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