Fierce Pharma September 30, 2024
After putting on a strong performance in preventing disease progression in the earlier treatment of multiple myeloma, Johnson & Johnson and Legend Biotech’s Carvykti has once again mounted a major benefit—this time in prolonging patients’ lives.
A single dose of the star BCMA CAR-T therapy significantly slashed the risk of death by 45% compared with two traditional combination treatments in myeloma patients who had received at least one prior line of therapy, according to an update of the phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 trial. Combinations of either Bristol Myers Squibb’s Pomalyst, Takeda’s Velcade and dexamethasone (PVd), or J&J’s Darzalex, Pomalyst and dexamethasone (DPd) served as the trial’s comparators.
Although neither arm reached its median overall survival time, 76.4% of patients in the...
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