WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a groundbreaking new drug for the most common form of pancreatic cancer, offering U.S. patients a more effective treatment

The therapy is a brand new targeted drug for the disease which experts have labelled as a substantial breakthrough following doubling of survival time in a trial.

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

RAS inhibitor daraxonrasib doubled survival outcomes in second-line trial

Pancreatic cancer is considered one of the hardest to treat and most serious cancers