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Three-quarters of patients with the rare blood disorder advanced systemic mastocytosis responded to treatment with avapritinib (Ayvakit), an interim analysis of a phase II trial found.
Among 32 patients treated with daily avapritinib in the PATHFINDER study, 19% had a complete remission (CR) with partial hematologic recovery, 31% had a partial response, and 25% achieved stable disease, with responses observed in all disease subtypes, reported Daniel DeAngelo, MD, PhD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Avapritinib at a starting dose of 200 mg induced rapid, durable, and improving responses, DeAngelo said during his presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research virtual meeting. Reductions were seen in disease burden based on bone marrow mast cells, reduction in serum tryptase,
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First-line indication offers Canadians with advanced lung cancer new treatment options
TORONTO, March 17, 2021 /CNW/ - Takeda Canada Inc. is pleased to announce that Health Canada has issued ALUNBRIG
® (brigatinib tablets) marketing authorization without conditions as monotherapy for the first-line treatment of adult patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase positive (ALK+) locally advanced (not amenable to curative therapy) or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
1 The approval is based on results from the phase 3 ALTA-1L trial which evaluated 275 patients and showed that once-daily ALUNBRIG
® was superior to crizotinib on measures of efficacy and tolerability making it a promising first-line treatment option.