The FDA has approved a first-in-class targeted therapy for adults with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Daraxonrasib (Rasonque, Revolution Medicines), an RAS inhibitor, received approval for patients who previously received at least one prior line of systemic therapy and are not candidates for multiagent systemic therapy.

Rasonque joins a short list of treatment options for one of the country’s deadliest types of cancer.

Rasonque’s speedy approval — just a month after a completed submission — represents a paradigm shift for a notoriously deadly cancer and begins what analysts see as a highly…