Bris­tol My­ers flash­es a thumbs-up on piv­otal push to ex­pand Abec­ma's BC­MA CAR-T mar­ket

Bris­tol My­ers Squibb and their part­ners at 2sev­en­ty bio have flagged a top-line win for Kar­M­Ma-3, one in a se­ries of piv­otal stud­ies look­ing to move Abec­ma (ide­cab­ta­gene vi­cleu­cel) up the line to ear­li­er-stage mul­ti­ple myelo­ma pa­tients.

We won’t get the hard da­ta un­til lat­er in the year, but for now, the phar­ma gi­ant and its biotech mar­ket­ing side­kick want you to know that Abec­ma scored on sta­tis­ti­cal sig­nif­i­cance for third-line pa­tients on the pri­ma­ry end­point: su­pe­ri­or pro­gres­sion-free sur­vival com­pared to stan­dard of care.

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