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AUGUST 4, 2017

FDA Approves Vyxeos for 2 Types of AML

By PPN News Staff

The FDA approved daunorubicin-cytarabine (Vyxeos, Jazz Pharmaceuticals) to treat adults with two types of acute myeloid leukemia (AML): newly diagnosed therapy-related AML (t-AML) or AML with myelodysplasia-related changes (AML-MRC).

Designed with Jazz’s CombiPlex proprietary technology, Vyxeos is a unique liposomal formulation that delivers a fixed ratio of daunorubicin and cytarabine to the bone marrow that has been shown to have synergistic effects at killing leukemia