Accelerated Approval’s Double-Edged Sword Cuts Down Agenus’ Balstilimab BLA
Executive Summary
With US FDA’s early conversion of Merck’s Keytruda to full approval for chemotherapy-experienced cervical cancer, Agenus lost its expedited path to market and has opted to focus on development of combination treatments instead.
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