LORVIQUA (Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd)
LORVIQUA (tablets) has provisional approval in Australia for the treatment of patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) positive advanced non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease has progressed on:
- crizotinib and at least one other ALK inhibitor; or
- alectinib as the first ALK inhibitor therapy; or
- ceritinib as the first ALK inhibitor therapy.
The decision to approve this indication has been made on the basis of tumour response rate and duration of response in a single arm study. Continued approval of this indication depends on verification and description of benefit in a confirmatory trial.