The US Food and Drug Administration approval of Bristol Myers Squibb Company’s chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel; liso-cel) has been a long time coming, but that has given the company time to prepare for launch against two established competitors.
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Breyanzi’s list price is $410,300. The CD19-targeting CAR-T therapy previously known as liso-cel has a lot of ground to make up following competitors Yescarta and Kymriah.
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