AstraZeneca Canada's Calquence (acalabrutinib) Receives Health Canada Approval for Patients Previously Treated with Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
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- The NOC is based on the positive data of Calquence in ACE-LY-004 trial demonstrating 81% OR rate for patients with relapsed or refractory MCL
- The Health Canada approval of Calquence allows AstraZeneca to develop the treatments of blood cancers
- Calquence (acalabrutinib- previously known as ACP-196) is an oral selective inhibitor of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) which further irreversibly binds to it while inhibiting its activity- with its recommended dose one 100mg capsule administered twice daily
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