Good DREAMM-1 Data Keeps GSK On Track For Multiple Myeloma Filing This Year

Confirmation of good trial data for GSK's promising anti-BCMA antibody-drug conjugate GSK2857916 in multiple myeloma patients keeps it in the running for eventual regulatory approval by 2020 - but it faces a formidable field of emerging rival therapies.  

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GlaxoSmithKline PLC confirmed plans to file its investigational anti-BCMA antibody-drug conjugate GSK2857916 with regulators by the end of this year, as further positive data from the DREAMM-1 study in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma confirmed that nearly two thirds of patients responded to the drug after an extra year’s follow-up.

Announcing updated data from the DREAMM-1 study, published in the published in Blood Cancer Journal, GSK said "these new data...

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