J&J Gets CDSCO Panel Nod to study anticancer drug Cetrelimab

Cetrelimab is under development for the treatment of metastatic or surgically unresectable urothelial cancer, chronic hepatitis B, muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (second line and third line) advanced cancers such as colorectal cancer, non-small-cel

Cetrelimab works by trying to stimulate the immune system to attack prostate cancer by blocking a protein called PD-1. Giving apalutamide and cetrelimab together may cause the tumour to stop growing or grow at a slower rate in patients with prostate cancer.

Cetrelimab binds to PD-1 and inhibits the interaction with its ligands, programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1, PD-1L1) and PD-1 ligand 2 (PD-L2, PD-1L2).

At the recent SEC meeting for Oncology and Hematology held on the 30th of May 2023, the expert panel reviewed the proposal presented by Johnson and Johnson for Phase III clinical trial vide protocol no. 17000139BLC3002, amendment 1, dated 06-Dec-2022.

After detailed deliberation, the committee recommended the grant of permission for the conduct of the proposed Phase III clinical trial as presented by the firm.

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