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Blueprint Medicines Announces Publication in The Lancet Oncology Showing Durable Clinical Benefits of AYVAKIT™ (avapritinib) in NAVIGATOR Trial Patients with PDGFRA D842V Mutant GIST
June 29, 2020 at 6:30 PM EDT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Blueprint Medicines Corporation (NASDAQ: BPMC), a precision therapy company focused on genomically defined cancers, rare diseases and cancer immunotherapy, today announced that The Lancet Oncology published data from the NAVIGATOR clinical trial showing an unprecedented overall survival (OS) rate and a well-tolerated safety profile for AYVAKIT™ (avapritinib) in patients with advanced PDGFRA D842V mutant gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). The paper, titled “Avapritinib in advanced PDGFRA D842V-mutant gastrointestinal stromal tumour (NAVIGATOR): a multicentre, open-label, phase 1 trial,” was published online in The Lancet Oncology on June 29, 2020. Read more…
