Gilead's CAR-T Therapy Yescarta Slowly Getting Off The Ground

07 Feb 2018

• By Emily Hayes

Slow and steady approach to launch should position Yescarta well in the long run, Gilead maintains – the CAR-T therapy brought in $7m in its first month. But Gilead is still suffering from the decline in hepatitis C.

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Gilead Sciences Inc.'s measured launch of the chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy Yescarta is proceeding as expected, with 28 cancer centers in the US now ready to provide the treatment and $7m in sales for the fourth quarter.

Jefferies analyst Michael Yee said in a same-day note that Yescarta sales were higher than expected, considering they

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