ESMO 23: Pluvicto Fulfils Promise For Prostate Cancer Label Expansion

Novartis' radioligand therapy has performed well against standard-of-care androgen-receptor pathway inhibitor therapy and could potentially be a paradigm shift in the treatment of prostate cancer.

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Observers eagerly awaiting the full dataset from the Phase III PSMAfore study of Novartis AG's prostate cancer radioligand therapy Pluvicto have had an early peek at what look like very promising results after all the late-breaking abstracts for the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) meeting in Madrid were released early following a leak.

The Swiss major delivered positive topline data at the end of last year from 469-patient PSMAfore which showed that Pluvicto...

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