WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCPH), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines to improve the lives of people with cancer, today announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved QINLOCK (ripretinib) in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of adult patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) who have received prior treatment with three or more kinase inhibitors, including imatinib1. The EC decision is applicable to all 27 European Union member states plus Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein. In September 2021, QINLOCK was added as a fourth-line treatment for GIST patients progressing or intolerant to imatinib, sunitinib, and regorafenib to the ESMO-EURACAN-GENTURIS clinical practice guidelines for GIST2.
“The European Commission’s approval of QINLOCK marks the eighth regulatory approval of this transformative medicine worldwide and is an important milestone for patients with advanced GIST in the EU who are in need of a new treatment option,” said Steve Hoerter, President and Chief Executive Officer of Deciphera. “We look forward to working with health authorities to ensure that all eligible patients who can benefit from QINLOCK have access as rapidly as possible.”
“With a complex disease like advanced GIST, the availability of new efficacious and tolerable treatment options is critical for patients,” said Jean-Yves Blay, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Medicine at the...
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