Ibrutinib approved for mantle cell lymphoma

    Cancer Discovery
    |January 10, 2014
    PubMed

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the targeted therapy ibrutinib (Imbruvica; Johnson & Johnson and Pharmacyclics) for treating patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who have received at least one prior therapy.

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