As part of Project Orbis, a collaboration with the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration and Health Canada, FDA granted supplemental approval to Calquence (acalabrutinib) for the treatment of adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma. This new approved indication for Calquence provides a new treatment option for patients with CLL or SLL as an initial or subsequent therapy.
For more than a year before her stage 4 lung cancer was found, 35-year-old Alisa Secaida, a never-smoker and a physically active Southern Californian, had been experiencing a persistent cough and, increasingly, fatigue.
