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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Storm Newton

New pill offers hope for patients with incurable blood cancer

Adding a new once-daily pill to a combination of drugs already used on the NHS could help patients with a with an incurable blood cancer live longer without the disease getting worse, according to researchers.

A trial found that patients on the triplet therapy – which included the new treatment mezigdomide – lived more than twice as long without their cancer progressing.

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