FDA OKs new use for cancer drug Imbruvica

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new indication for the drug Imbruvica.

Imbruvica first gained FDA approval in 2013 to treat patients with mantle cell lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, small lymphocytic lymphoma, and marginal zone lymphoma. Now, the drug can also be used to treat patients with marginal zone lymphoma who require systemic therapy and have received at least one type of lymphoma therapy.

The continued approval of this indication may be contingent upon the positive clinical outcomes from a confirmatory clinical trial, according to a news release.

Janssen Biotech, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, and Pharmacyclics, an AbbVie company, partnered to develop and commercialize the drug.

 

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