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New indication alert: Daiichi’s VANFLYTA® (quizartinib) approved for AML in Japan

May 25, 2023

Daiichi Sankyo announced that VANFLYTA® (quizartinib) has been approved in Japan for a new indication: the treatment of FLT3-ITD mutation positive acute myeloid leukemia (AML)VANFLYTA® is now approved to treat these patients in combination with standard cytarabine and anthracycline induction and standard cytarabine consolidation chemotherapy and as maintenance monotherapyThis is the first and only FLT3 inhibitor in Japan approved for newly diagnosed AML treatment. The existing approval from June 2019 covers relapsed or refractory FLT3-ITD mutation-positive AML.