No­var­tis shoots for ear­ly OK of a ‘break­through’ blood can­cer drug af­ter re­vers­ing or­gan dam­age in tri­al

Up to now, No­var­tis’ mi­dostau­rin has been pri­mar­i­ly not­ed for its po­ten­tial in treat­ing a mu­ta­tion-spe­cif­ic type of acute myeloid leukemia, thrust in­to the spot­light af­ter the FDA hand­ed out its break­through des­ig­na­tion for the drug ear­li­er this year. But a new study shows that the drug al­so demon­strat­ed a sta­tis­ti­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant abil­i­ty to halt and re­verse or­gan dam­age caused by rare cas­es of ad­vanced sys­temic mas­to­cy­to­sis. And the phar­ma gi­ant now plans to prep an ap­pli­ca­tion for reg­u­la­tors on both sides of the At­lantic in search of ear­ly mar­ket­ing ap­proval.

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