Quemliclustat Receives Orphan Drug Designation for Pancreatic Cancer
“The orphan drug designation indicates the importance of developing new treatment options for rare diseases like pancreatic cancer, which has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers, and which has seen few treatment advancements over the past 30 years,” said Richard Markus, M.D., Ph.D., chief medical officer at Arcus Biosciences. “We expect the Phase 3 PRISM-1 study to be fully enrolled this year and, if positive, intend to quickly bring this new first-line treatment option to patients, with the goal of prolonging survival for those with metastatic pancreatic cancer.”
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