Lutathera Approval Positions Novartis To Regain NET Share Taken By Ipsen
Executive Summary
The US FDA has approved Advanced Accelerator Applications' radiopharmaceutical Lutathera to treat GEP-NETs second time around, just four days after Novartis closed its acquisition of AAA. The product should help the Swiss firm regain ground its Sandostatin product has lost to Ipsen's Somatuline.
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