FDA expands the indication for Velcade for multiple myeloma patients.
FDA expands the indication for Velcade for multiple myeloma patients.
Since 2003, multiple myeloma patients who have relapsed and who have had at least one prior therapy have been able to take Velcade (bortezomib, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, The Takeda Oncology Co., and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.) to increase their survival. Now the Food & Drug Administration has granted the injection a new indication-for use among previously untreated patients with multiple myeloma. The International Myeloma Foundation applauded the FDA decision. Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the bone marrow and affects about 750,000 people worldwide.
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Targeted Drug Combination Reveals New Activity in Brain Tumors
December 28th 2021A combination of two targeted cancer drugs showed unprecedented, “clinically meaningful” activity in patients with highly malignant brain tumors that carried a rare genetic mutation, according to a clinical trial report by investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
