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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first drug in a brand-new class of treatments for acute myeloid leukemia.

The drug, ivosidenib — developed by Cambridge-based Agios Pharmaceuticals — is a once-daily pill that might replace chemotherapy for some people with refractory or relapsing AML, a type of blood cancer that forms in the bone marrow.

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