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FDA Rejects Replimune's Skin Cancer Treatment, Shares Sink

FDA Rejects Replimune's Skin Cancer Treatment, Shares Sink

Bloomberg4 days ago
US regulators rejected a skin cancer treatment from Replimune Group Inc. in another sign of the agency's new leadership taking a hard line on drug approvals.
The US Food and Drug Administration denied the company's application to treat advanced melanoma with a combination of its immunotherapy and another cancer drug.
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