Janssen Biotech Inc. hopes it will be first to market with a drug for non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) with the submission of its next-generation androgen receptor inhibitor apalutamide, based on a Phase III study providing data on metastasis-free survival.
Apalutamide will be positioned in tandem with Janssen’s blockbuster prostate cancer therapy Zytiga (abiraterone acetate). "Prostate cancer is an area...