BeiGene’s Brukinsa (zanubrutinib) has failed to outperform its class rival from Johnson & Johnson/AbbVie in the rare white blood cell cancer Waldenstrom’s macroglublinemia (WM).
AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson’s Imbruvica has become the first chemo-free treatment for first-line chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) to be approved by the FDA, its tenth indication.