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Australian-made drug results in a medical breakthrough
19/09/2023
A new drug discovered in Melbourne to treat bone marrow cancer has been approved by US regulators and is expected to generate US $1 billion annually.
Clinical trials show that Momelotinib improves patients’ conditions and reduces treatment side effects.
Co-head of the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Program at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Professor Mark Dawson, told Mark Allen and Jimmy Bartel it “provides a greater quality of life”.
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