Not exact matches
Novartis set the price for the one - time treatment at $ 475,000, right in
line with low - end estimates and one that will put pressure on Gilead to rein in its own price for a rival
therapy expected to be
approved in the near future.
The drug was
approved by the FDA as a combination first -
line therapy for postmenopausal women with ER + / HER2 - breast cancer, as initial endocrine - based treatment for their metastatic disease.
The standard first -
line therapy treatment involves chemotherapy, and currently there is no
approved second -
line therapy.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
approved nivolumab as second -
line therapy for these patients this past July, and clinical trials are underway to test the drug as frontline treatment.
Dr. June: Our initial pilot trial was for 10 patients, and was so - called «third
line»
therapy for patients who have progressive leukemia after having had at least two different kinds of FDA -
approved therapy.
As a single agent, ipilimumab is
approved as a second -
line treatment, as well as adjuvant
therapy for patients with completely resected melanoma.
On June 27, 2011 the AKC
approved the
Therapy Dog title, and the wording for the
Therapy Dog was rewritten for our PPM to come in
line with AKC's new title.