This is an unusual activty as acutemyeloidleukemia is characterized by progressively shorter remission periods regardless of the drug regimen, says the analyst.
Novartis is in final trials of a drug that may help the one-third of acutemyeloidleukemia cases with a gene mutation that turns on cell-growth signals.
The first of its two clinical-stage product candidates is a potential treatment for acutemyeloidleukemia, a cancer that receives about 14, 000 new diagnoses in the U.S. annually.