Geron Announces Updated NCCN Guidelines® Recommending RYTELO™ (imetelstat) for the Treatment of Symptomatic Anemia in Patients with Lower-Risk MDS
Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to change lives by changing the course of blood cancer, today announced that the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has updated its Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for the treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) to recommend RYTELO™ (imetelstat) as a Category 1 and 2A treatment of symptomatic anemia in patients with lower-risk MDS. Treatments are classified as Category 1 and 2A when there is uniform NCCN consensus ≥85% that the intervention is appropriate.
