Dec 15 (Reuters) - Bristol Myers Squibb said on Friday it would discontinue its late-stage trial testing a treatment for a type of colon cancer.

The company said an independent data monitoring committee's analysis showed the trial was unlikely to meet its primary endpoints upon completion.

The trial was evaluating a combination therapy in patients who received previous treatment for a kind of colorectal cancer.

(Reporting by Christy Santhosh; Editing by Maju Samuel and Shinjini Ganguli)