Millennium Pharmaceuticals, The Takeda Oncology Company, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have received an additional approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their agent Velcade® (bortezomib) as initial therapy for multiple myeloma. Velcade is also approved for the treatment of multiple myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma among patients who have received prior therapies.
Velcade is a proteosome inhibitor that has demonstrated a significant improvement in response rates when added to chemotherapy for the treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, as well as an improvement in survival when used in the treatment regimen of patients with multiple myeloma.
The added indication for Velcade includes both transplant-eligible and ineligible patients, and does not specify a chemotherapy regimen with which Velcade is to be used.
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