FDA approved crizotinib (Xalkori) for adult and pediatric patients 1 year of age and older with unresectable, recurrent, or refractory inflammatory anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive myofibroblastic tumors.
A study led by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute found the drug pirtobrutinib worked as well as another drug, ibrutinib, in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma, and people in the study responded better with pirtobrutinib.
