Af­ter kick­back from the FDA, Bris­tol-My­ers yanks its Op­di­vo/Yer­voy BLA for high TMB ap­proach to lung can­cer

Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb has had a hard time win­ning an­a­lysts over to its strat­e­gy for carv­ing out a high­er mar­ket share for its check­point com­bo in non-small cell lung can­cer. And now you can add the FDA to the list of skep­tics re­quir­ing more da­ta to con­vince them.

In their Q4 re­lease Thurs­day morn­ing Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb says it is yank­ing its BLA for Op­di­vo com­bined with Yer­voy for front­line NSCLC cas­es with high tu­mor mu­ta­tion­al bur­den — or TMB — af­ter talks with the agency con­vinced them they need­ed more da­ta to high­light the con­nec­tion be­tween TMB and PD-L1.

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