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In the second-line treatment of patients advanced oesophageal cancer, the use of programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) inhibitors yields more favourable outcomes than chemotherapy across multiple patient subgroups, according to the results of a meta-analysis.

New drug applications approved by US FDA as of 16-30 November 2021 which includes New Molecular Entities (NMEs) and new biologics. It does not include Tentative Approvals. Supplemental approvals may have occurred since the original approval date.

The SGLT2i* canagliflozin significantly improves symptoms and quality of life (QoL) early on during treatment in people with heart failure (HF) due to either reduced or preserved ejection fraction (rEF or pEF), regardless of whether they have type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to the CHIEF-HF** study presented at AHA 2021.

Temozolomide administered to patients with glioblastoma at full actual body weight dosing during the concurrent phase is necessary to achieve a median overall survival (OS) that is similar to that seen in a previous trial, according to a recent study.

Treatment with inclisiran consistently reduced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels in patients with, or at high risk of, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), regardless of glycaemic status, based on a pooled analysis of the ORION-10* and ORION-11** studies presented at AHA 2021.

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening was associated with similar decrease in incidence of advanced prostate cancer (PCa) among statin users vs nonusers, but less detection of low-grade localized tumours in the former than the latter — indicating that statin does not compromise the benefits of PSA-based screening while also conferring the benefit of less overdiagnosis of low-risk tumours.