Name

Belzutifan

Alternate Names

Welireg

Abbreviations

None

Category

Chemotherapy

Subcategory

Hypoxia-inducible factor inhibitor

NSC Number

None

Primary Site

Kidney, Brain, Pancreas

Histology

RCC, hemangioblastoma, pNET

Remarks

December 14, 2023 The FDA approved belzutifan (Welireg,) for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) following a programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1) or programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitor and a vascular endothelial growth factor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (VEGF-TKI).

August 13, 2021 The FDA approved belzutifan (Welireg), a hypoxia-inducible factor inhibitor for adult patients with von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease who require therapy for associated renal cell carcinoma (RCC), central nervous system (CNS) hemangioblastomas, or pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET), not requiring immediate surgery.

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