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Nilotinib: Backed by 17 Years of Experience Treating Newly Diagnosed 
Ph+ CML Patients, and Those Resistant to or Intolerant to Imatinib2

Nilotinib significantly reduces the risk of progression to AP/BC and may help patients achieve9:

  • Complete Cytogenetic Response (CCyR)
  • Major Molecular Response (MMR)
  • Deep molecular responses (eg, MR4.5)a

Nilotinib is the only TKI with in-label eligibility criteria to enter treatment-free remission2

  • Treatment-free remission is the ability for eligible patients who achieved a sustained MR4.5 to maintain MMR after discontinuing nilotinib2,3,b
  • Patients who achieved EMR at 3 months were more likely to achieve MMR by 2 years and MR4.5 by 4 years than were patients with EMR failure9

EMR
3 Months9

MMR
2 Years9

MR4.5
4 Years9

Treatment-free Remission

The most commonly reported non-hematologic adverse reactions (≥20%) in adult patients were nausea, rash, headache, fatigue, pruritus, vomiting, diarrhea, cough, constipation, arthralgia, nasopharyngitis, pyrexia, and night sweats.2

  • Hematologic adverse drug reactions include myelosuppression: thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and anemia

Abbreviations: AP/BC=accelerated phase/blast crisis; EMR=early molecular response; IS=International Scale; MR=molecular response.

aMR4.5, corresponding to BCR-ABL/ABL ≤0.0032% IS.1

bThese patients no longer take daily oral therapy but continue to be actively managed through frequently scheduled monitoring to identify possible loss of molecular response.1