Enhertu recommended for approval by CHMP for patients with HER2-mutant advanced non-small cell lung cancer
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been recommended for approval in the European Union (EU) as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumours have an activating HER2 (ERBB2) mutation and who require systemic therapy following platinum-based chemotherapy with or without immunotherapy.
Enhertu is a specifically engineered HER2-directed antibody drug conjugate (ADC) being jointly developed and commercialised by AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency based its positive opinion on the primary results from the DESTINY-Lung02 Phase II trial, which were presented at the IASLC 2023 World Conference on Lung Cancer and simultaneously published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
In the trial, Enhertu (5.4mg/kg) demonstrated a confirmed objective response rate (ORR) of 49.0% (95% confidence interval [CI] 39.0-59.1) and a disease control rate (DCR) of 93.1% (95% CI 86.4-97.2), as assessed by blinded independent central review (BICR), in patients with previously treated advanced or metastatic HER2-mutant (HER2m) NSCLC. One (1.0%) complete response (CR) and 49 (48.0%) partial responses (PR) were observed. The median duration of response (DoR) was 16.8 months (95% CI 6.4-not estimated [NE]). Median follow-up was 11.5 months at time of data cut-off of 23 December 2022.
See- "Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Patients With HER2-Mutant Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Primary Results From the Randomized, Phase II DESTINY-Lung02 Trial"-.Koichi Goto , MD, PhD; Yasushi Goto , MD, PhD; .et al., OI: 10.1200/JCO.23.01361 Journal of Clinical Oncology.Published online September 11, 2023. , PMID: 37694347.
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