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Tibsovo Approval Makes Agios’ Second AML Approval In A Year; Priced At $26k For 30 Days

 
• By Joseph Haas

Tibsovo is the second targeted therapy approved for a mutation-specific subset of relapsed/refractory AML patients. Agios discovered and jointly markets the first, Idhifa, with Celgene.

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Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc. obtained its second approval for a targeted acute myelogenous leukemia drug in less than a year and will soon launch Tibsovo (ivosidenib) for relapsed or refractory AML patients who test positive for an IDH1 mutation. The firm said on July 20 that it set a 30-day wholesale acquisition cost of $26,115 for the drug at a daily dose of 500 mg.

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