{"id":3226,"date":"2026-06-01T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:22:49","slug":"new-hope-for-patients-with-a-specific-type-of-advanced-bowel-cancer-european-medicines-agency-recommends-approval-of-a-targeted-treatment-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/new-hope-for-patients-with-a-specific-type-of-advanced-bowel-cancer-european-medicines-agency-recommends-approval-of-a-targeted-treatment-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hope for Patients with a Specific Type of Advanced Bowel Cancer: European Medicines Agency Recommends Approval of a Targeted Treatment Combination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Fabre Laboratories has received a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency\u2019s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for the approval of a new treatment combination for adults with advanced bowel cancer caused by a specific genetic mutation called BRAF V600E. The combination includes the medicines BRAFTOVI (encorafenib), cetuximab, and a standard <a href=\"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/product\/methotrexate\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"48\" title=\"Methotrexate\">chemotherapy<\/a> regimen called FOLFOX. This combination is intended for patients who have not received any previous treatment for their advanced cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Fabre Laboratories has received a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency\u2019s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pharmaceutical-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allesleypharmacy.co.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}