Accelerated approval of Roche/AbbVie Inc.’s Venclexta (venetoclax) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia with the 17p deletion mutation is just the beginning for a drug that has demonstrated impressive response rates and is being positioned for a range of blood cancers.
Venetoclax (previously known as ABT-199) targets the protein B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2), which is often over-expressed in CLL