On August 27, AbbVie announced that the FDA has approved ibrutinib (Imbruvica) (Pharmacyclics, LLC) plus rituximab for the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM), a rare and incurable type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). This approval represents the first and only chemotherapy-free combination treatment specifically indicated for the disease.
Read the full AbbVie corporate press release here.
Posted 8/27/2018
Understanding both the benefits to be had from offering BsAb therapy to its community and the scope of this undertaking, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center took a novel approach with its APP-led BsAb step-up dosing clinic, which won the program a 2026 ACCC Innovator Award.
