Pfizer Inc.’s Axitinib Receives Positive Opinion from the Committee for Human Medicinal Products for the Second-line Treatment of Advanced Kidney Cancer in the EU

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer announced today that the Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion regarding the marketing authorization of axitinib in the European Union (EU), for the treatment of adult patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a type of advanced kidney cancer, after failure of prior treatment with sunitinib or a cytokine.