Why ImmunityBio’s ANKTIVA cost analysis could intensify the bladder cancer value debate

Bladder cancer drugs face a value test. ImmunityBio’s ANKTIVA analysis raises new questions on cost, response durability and access.

Bladder cancer drugs face a value test. ImmunityBio’s ANKTIVA analysis raises new questions on cost, response durability and access.

ANKTIVA already has an NMIBC foothold. The harder test is whether FDA reviewers accept extrapolation into papillary-only disease.

Bladder-sparing therapy needs better sequencing. Ferring’s ADSTILADRIN re-induction signal raises hope, but durability is the real test.

ImmunityBio’s first Asia approval for ANKTIVA in BCG-unresponsive bladder cancer: what the Macau clearance means for its global strategy. Read the analysis.

ImmunityBio has resubmitted its supplemental biologics license application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for ANKTIVA (nogapendekin alfa inbakicept) in combination with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin for BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with papillary tumors, after the agency requested updated long-term efficacy data in March 2026. The resubmission follows a regulatory exchange that began in January […]