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The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended approving an oral therapy to treat myelofibrosis patients with moderate to severe anaemia. Myelofibrosis is a rare blood cancer that affects the body's normal production of blood cells, and the affected patients are likely to develop anaemia over the course of the disease. British drugmaker GSK, the manufacturer of the oral therapy known as momelotinib, said that it can be used to treat "both newly diagnosed and previously treated myelofibrosis patients." The medicine helps address disease-related splenomegaly (enlarged spleen) or symptoms in adult patients who are Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor naïve or have been treated with ruxolitinib, as stated by the company. Nina Mojas, Senior Vice President of Oncology Global Product Strategy at GSK, said that receiving the positive CHMP opinion "is a significant step in bringing momelotinib to patients in the EU with this difficult-to-treat blood cancer."