Pfizer's Besponsa Is Yet Another Win for the Biopharma Giant

Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE: PFE) scored another cancer drug victory this past week when the FDA green-lighted Besponsa, a drug that battles back against a rare and deadly type of leukemia. The approval adds yet another arrow to Pfizer's quiver of cancer treatments, and it could boost the company's sales by $1 billion, or more.

After failing a trial evaluating its use in a subset of non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients back in 2013, Besponsa was rescued from the risk of ending up in the dustbin when it delivered a decisive knock-out blow to cancer in patients diagnosed with relapsing or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL.

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