More Cancer Indications With Accelerated Approval Are Being Withdrawn

Three more oncology indications given accelerated approval are being withdrawn from the U.S. market at the request of the FDA. Those mark just shy of 20 oncology indications and/or drugs that have been approved through that accelerated pathway and then subsequently retracted since 2020. While accelerated approval may be benefiting patients with nononcology indications, its track record for oncolytics is not quite as impressive, says one industry expert.

Most recently, Roche said on Nov. 29 that it was voluntarily withdrawing Tecentriq’s (atezolizumab) indication for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who are not eligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy and whose tumors express programmed death-ligand 1 or are not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy regardless of PD-L1 status. The agency granted accelerated approval for that indication on April 17, 2017, to Roche’s Genentech USA, Inc. subsidiary.

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