How many drugs treat Empyema of pleura?

Drug Landscape tracks 2 marketed treatments for Empyema of pleura (deduplicated by molecule). 0 Phase 3 candidates and 0 Phase 2 candidates are in the pipeline.

What's the most recent regulatory action in Empyema of pleura?

Most recent: Cleocin T — FDA approved.

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Empyema of pleura — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Empyema of pleura (disease) competitive landscape: 2 marketed treatments tracked, 0 Phase 3 candidates, 0 Phase 2 candidates. Recent regulatory actions and upcoming PDUFA dates across the entire treatment set.

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Marketed treatment landscape

Approved drugs treating Empyema of pleura, deduplicated by molecule. See the full disease page for line-of-therapy detail.

Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Class	Target	Line of therapy	First approval
Cleocin T	CLINDAMYCIN PHOSPHATE	Pfizer	Lincosamide Antibacterial			1972-01-01
Cleocin	clindamycin	Generic (originally Upjohn/Pfizer)	Lincosamide antibiotic	50S ribosomal protein L10		1970-01-01

Phase 3 pipeline

No Phase 3 pipeline candidates tracked.

Phase 2 pipeline

No Phase 2 pipeline candidates tracked.

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

2026-03-23 — Cleocin T · FDA · approved · US
2026-03-18 — Cleocin T · FDA · approved · US

Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this treatment set.

Sponsor landscape

· 2 drugs in Empyema of pleura
Generic (originally Upjohn/Pfizer) · 1 drug in Empyema of pleura
Pfizer · 1 drug in Empyema of pleura

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Drug Landscape (2026). Empyema of pleura — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/disease/empyema-of-pleura. Accessed 2026-06-10.

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