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ImmunityBio Presents Health Economic Analysis at ISPOR 2026 Showing ANKTIVA® Plus BCG Delivers Lower Cost per Sustained Complete Response Versus TAR-200 in BCG-Unresponsive NMIBC CIS
CULVER CITY, Calif., May 22, 2026--ImmunityBio, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBRX), a commercial-stage immunotherapy company, today announced preliminary results from a new health economic analysis demonstrating that ANKTIVA® (nogapendekin alfa inbakicept-pmln; NAI) plus Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) achieved a lower cost per sustained complete responder compared to TAR-200 in patients with BCG-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer carcinoma in situ ± papillary disease (NMIBC CIS). The findings were
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