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Brentuximab vedotin

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In August 2011 brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris; Seattle Genetics), a CD30-specific antibody–drug conjugate, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma and patients with systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL).

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  1. Anas Younes is at the Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

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  2. Uma Yasothan is at IMS Health, 7 Harewood Avenue, London NW1 6JB, UK.

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  3. Peter Kirkpatrick is at Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.

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Anas Younas has received research support and/or honoraria from Seattle Genetics, Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, Genentech, Plexxikon, Celgene, Gilead and Merck.

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Younes, A., Yasothan, U. & Kirkpatrick, P. Brentuximab vedotin. Nat Rev Drug Discov 11, 19–20 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd3629

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