ImmunityBio Treatment With ANKTIVA Plus Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Shows Efficacy At 12, 36 Months

Benzinga · 23h ago

ImmunityBio, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBRX), a leading immunotherapy company, today announced treatment with ANKTIVA® (nogapendekin alfa inbakicept-pmln) plus Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) demonstrates efficacy at 12 and 36 months, including disease-free survival (DFS), disease-specific survival (DSS), long-term progression-free survival (PFS), and high cystectomy avoidance in patients with BCG-unresponsive high-grade papillary-only non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Published in The Journal of Urology's current January 2026 print edition, the findings also show tolerable safety that was consistent with BCG treatment alone, with 3% of grade 3 and no grade 4 or 5 treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs).