Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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Eisai, MSD File Lenvima-Welireg Combo in Japan for RCC
The combination of Eisai’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor Lenvima (lenvatinib) and MSD’s hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha (HIF-2α) inhibitor Welireg (belzutifan) was filed in Japan for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The two companies said on March 27 that the submission…
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