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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

FDA Approves Lumoxiti for Hairy Cell Leukemia

By PPN News Staff

The FDA approved moxetumomab pasudotox-tdfk (Lumoxiti, AstraZeneca/MedImmune) injection for intravenous use to treat adults with relapsed or refractory hairy cell leukemia (HCL) who have received at least two prior systemic therapies, including treatment with a purine nucleoside analog. 

Moxetumomab pasudotox-tdfk is a CD22-directed cytotoxin and is the first of this type of treatment for patients with HCL, a rare, slow-growing hematologic malignancy in which the bone