GSK’s Blenrep: 15 Days From Confirmatory Trial Failure To Withdrawal Announcement
Executive Summary
The first BCMA-targeting agent to gain approval in myeloma never became the blockbuster for which GSK had hoped, but Blenrep appears to have set a new standard for speed of voluntary withdrawal of an accelerated approval drug after a confirmatory trial failure.
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