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APRIL 21, 2020

Breakthrough Therapy for Advanced Cholangiocarcinoma Approved

The FDA granted accelerated approval to pemigatinib (Pemazyre, Incyte ), the first approved treatment for adults with previously treated cholangiocarcinoma that is locally advanced or metastatic and has a fusion or other rearrangement in FGFR2

“With Pemazyre, we considered the observed efficacy results to be clinically meaningful and the overall risk-to-benefit assessment for patients with tumors harboring FGFR2 [fibroblast growth factor receptor 2] gene fusions and other