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A Neato Cell: Data Show Favorable Efficacy, Toxicity For Arcellx/Gilead Myeloma CAR-T

 
• By Alaric DeArment

Anito-cel showed strong efficacy in heavily pretreated patients despite characteristics predicting poorer performance, but none of the atypical neurotoxicities that have appeared with other BCMA CAR-Ts.

Gilead's Kite Pharma is partnered with Arcellx on the development of anito-cel, also known as CART-ddBCMA • Source: Scrip

Arcellx, Inc.’s anitocabtagene autoleucel (anito-cel), partnered with Gilead Sciences, Inc., beat expectations at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting, producing progression-free survival (PFS) on the high end of approved CAR-T cell therapies for multiple myeloma, but with a potentially more favorable adverse event profile. But while it did not produce the atypical neurotoxicities associated with the approved CAR-Ts, the small numbers of people who have experienced atypical neurotoxicities with the approved CAR-Ts led the CEO of a company developing one of them to point out that the rates at which they have occurred have been low.

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