Drug Updates
On December 27, 2019, the FDA approved a new indication for olaparib (Lynparza; AstraZeneca), for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline BRCA-mutated metastatic pancreatic cancer whose disease has not progressed on at least 16 weeks of a first-line platinum-based chemotherapy regimen. The FDA also approved the BRACAnalysis CDx test (Myriad Genetics) as a companion diagnostic to select patients with pancreatic cancer who are candidates for treatment with olaparib based on the identification of deleterious or suspected deleterious germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. Read More ›
On February 12, 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval for daratumumab (Darzalex; Janssen), a CD38-directed antibody, to be given in a split-dosing regimen to patients with multiple myeloma (MM). Read More ›
Marginal-zone lymphoma (MZL) is a malignancy that arises from B-lymphocytes in the marginal zone of lymphoid tissue. This slow-growing indolent B-cell lymphoma represents approximately 12% of all cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in adults. Read More ›