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Date: May 10th, 2010

In the News: Tasigna® Approved for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

10 May, 2010 (04:12) | Management and Treatment, News and Updates | By: Lightning

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Tasigna® (nilotinib) for the treatment of chronic and accelerated-phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) for patients who are not able to tolerate or who have stopped responding to Gleevec® (imatinib). Tasigna® is an agent that also targets the same protein as Gleevec but through a different [...]