The FirstTake Podcast – A landmark cancer approval, Pfizer’s Arena deal delivers and the expert view on recent breast cancer developments

On this week’s episode editors Virginia Li and Simon King discuss FDA approval of the first novel checkpoint inhibitor for eight years – Bristol Myers Squibb’s LAG-3 inhibitor relatlimab – and evaluate positive data for Pfizer’s etrasimod, which it gained via December’s $6.7 billion acquisition of Arena Pharmaceuticals. In addition, FirstWord’s Michael Flanagan speaks to Adam Brufsky – professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and associate chief for the school’s haematology/oncology division – to discuss the relevance of recent clinical and regulatory events that will impact the treatment of breast cancer.