GSK’s Blenrep has pivotal clinical trial results showing the multiple myeloma therapy reduced the risk of disease progression or death by nearly 50%. The results were presented Sunday during the annual meeting of the America Society of Clinical Oncology.

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GSK took Blenrep off the market last year after the multiple myeloma drug failed its confirmatory study. But GSK now says it has interim data showing Blenrep beat a blockbuster Johnson & Johnson drug in a head-to-head Phase 3 study testing it as an earlier line of therapy.

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Blenrep, an antibody-drug conjugate, is the first drug approved for multiple myeloma that targets the antigen BCMA. Several other companies are also developing BCMA-targeting therapies for the blood cancer, including CAR-T cells and bispecific antibodies.

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