The US Food and Drug Administration doubled the size of the 2021 class of novel cancer therapies with the recent approval of AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s Fotivda (tivozanib) and Oncopeptides AB’s Pepaxto (melphalan flufenamide).
The Fotivda approval, for third-line renal cell carcinoma, illustrates the persistent strength of kinase inhibitors in oncology. The first two...






