Bristol-Myers Presents 4 and 5-Year Survival Data for YERVOY in Treatment-Naïve and Previously-Treated Metastatic Melanoma

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

today announced four- and five-year survival rates based on long-term follow up from Phase 3 and Phase 2 YERVOY® (ipilimumab) clinical trials in patients with treatment-naïve and previously-treated metastatic melanoma. The data were presented at the ESMO 2012 Congress (European Society for Medical Oncology). (Abstract #1127 and 1116.) In the Phase 3 trial (024), patients who had not previously received treatment for metastatic melanoma (n=502) were randomized to receive either the investigational dose of YERVOY 10 mg/kg in combination with dacarbazine (DTIC, 850 mg/m2) or DTIC alone. Long-term follow-up from this study demonstrated that treatment with YERVOY plus DTIC resulted in a four-year survival