Health Canada approves Inrebic (fedratinib), first new treatment in nearly a decade for patients living with myelofibrosis

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21 September 2020 - Inrebic provides new, once-daily oral option for patients affected by rare bone marrow cancer.

Bristol Myers Squibb Canada announced today that Health Canada has approved Inrebic (fedratinib), a new once-daily oral medication used to treat adults with an enlarged spleen and associated symptoms caused by intermediate-2 or high-risk primary myelofibrosis, post-polycythemia vera myelofibrosis or post-essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis.

Health Canada’s approval of Inrebic included findings from the JAKARTA and JAKARTA2 clinical trials.

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