AbbVie Secures FDA Nod for New ADC Drug Emrelis in Lung Cancer
AbbVie (ABBV) announced that the FDA has granted accelerated approval to its antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), telisotuzumab vedotin (or Teliso-V), for treating certain patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The drug will be marketed under the brand name Emrelis.Under this approval, Emrelis is approved to treat adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic, non-squamous NSCLC with high c-Met protein overexpression (OE) who have received a prior systemic therapy. This makes it the first FDA-appr ...