Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee votes 6-5 that ramucirumab’s benefit/risk profile is favorable in first-line lung cancer, but 13-2 that pivotal trial data do not support approval of Steba’s vascular-targeted, photodynamic therapy for low-risk prostate cancer.

Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee will consider whether a statistically significant benefit on progression-free survival, but no survival advantage, is enough to secure a first-line lung cancer indication for ramucirumab.

Sponsor seeks accelerated approval for low-risk, early-stage prostate cancer based on a trial that met its coprimary endpoints, but agency says interpretation of those results is complicated by novelty of the outcomes, data quality issues and increase in genitourinary adverse events.