The third quarter could bring US approvals for a range of novel drugs, including the first treatment for a common eye disease, the first US approval of PD-1/L1 inhibitor from a Chinese firm, and the first oral therapy for postpartum depression.

Impressive overall survival data from the Phase III ADAURA trial should boost both EGFR testing in non-small cell lung cancer, and sales of the blockbuster NSCLC therapy.

The ability of Daiichi-Sankyo/AstraZeneca’s blockbuster antibody-drug conjugate Enhertu to tackle a range of HER2-expressing cancers in a Phase II study could lead to a tumor-agnostic future for the product, new data suggest.