NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the label for VENCLEXTA^® (venetoclax tablets) in combination with rituximab to include information about patients with previously-treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who achieved minimal residual disease (MRD)-negativity in the Phase 3 MURANO trial.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IMBRUVICA^® (ibrutinib) plus rituximab (RITUXAN^®) for the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM), a rare and incurable type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). With this approval, the IMBRUVICA prescribing information now includes combination use with rituximab, representing the first and only chemotherapy-free combination treatment specifically indicated for the disease. IMBRUVICA was first approved as a single agent therapy for WM in January 2015. IMBRUVICA is a first-in-class Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor jointly developed and commercialized by Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie company, and Janssen Biotech, Inc.

– Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is one of the most aggressive cancers, with a very low survival rate and few options available for patients who are ineligible for intensive chemotherapy

- The ibrutinib clinical program is designed to fully explore the potential of this first-in-class molecule as a single or combination therapy for multiple cancers and other diseases. Fourteen Phase 3 company-sponsored studies are ongoing.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for Priority Review a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for IMBRUVICA^® (ibrutinib) in combination with rituximab (RITUXAN^®) as a new treatment option for Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM), a rare and incurable form of blood cancer.¹ If approved, the sNDA would expand the prescribing information of IMBRUVICA in WM beyond its current approved use as a single agent for all lines of therapy to include combination use with rituximab. As a single-agent therapy, IMBRUVICA is the first and only FDA-approved treatment available for patients with WM. IMBRUVICA is a first-in-class Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor jointly developed and commercialized by Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie company, and Janssen Biotech, Inc.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the presentation of investigational data from a new analysis of undetectable minimal residual disease (uMRD) rates from the pivotal Phase 3 MURANO trial of venetoclax, a first-in-class oral B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2) inhibitor, in combination with rituximab (VenR) in patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Of the 121 patients who achieved uMRD (meaning less than one CLL cell in 10,000 white blood cells were detectable using a standardized test²) at the end of combination therapy (EOCT), 83 percent (n=100) maintained uMRD and were progression-free for a median of 13.8 months (range, 5.6-23.0 months) thereafter. These results will be presented in an oral session on Saturday, June 16, at 11:45 a.m. CEST during the 23^rd European Hematology Association (EHA) Annual Congress in Stockholm.¹  Venetoclax is being developed by AbbVie and Roche. It is jointly commercialized by AbbVie and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, in the U.S. and by AbbVie outside of the U.S.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved, under priority review, VENCLEXTA® (venetoclax tablets) in combination with rituximab for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), with or without 17p deletion, who have received at least one prior therapy.¹

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., June 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV), a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced positive data from the Phase 2 CAPTIVATE (PCYC-1142) study evaluating IMBRUVICA^® (ibrutinib) in combination with VENCLEXTA^® (venetoclax) in previously-untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) patients. Early results of the combination oral regimen suggest promising activity in treatment-naïve CLL/SLL with 77 percent of the first 30 patients achieving responses with no detectable minimal residual disease (MRD) after six cycles of the combination therapy. MRD is determined by measuring the number of cancer cells remaining and helps confirm depth of remission. The first 14 CLL/SLL patients to complete the clinical trial combination therapy of 12 cycles (15 cycles of ibrutinib) achieved responses with no detectable MRD in approximately nine out of 10 patients, with 93 percent achieving MRD negativity when measuring in peripheral blood and 86 percent with MRD negativity when measuring in the bone marrow.¹