First HER2-directed medicine to show an improvement in overall survival for previously treated metastatic gastric cancer with a 41% reduction in the risk of death vs. chemotherapy
Breakthrough Therapy Designation recently granted in the US for Enhertu in this setting
Detailed results from the positive, registrational, randomised controlled Phase II DESTINY-Gastric01 trial showed
The trial evaluated patients with HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma that had progressed following two or more treatment regimens including trastuzumab and chemotherapy.
Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer mortality with a five-year survival rate of 5% for metastatic disease.1,2 Approximately one in five gastric cancers are considered HER2 positive.3,4
The confirmed ORR, assessed by independent central review, was 42.9% with Enhertu monotherapy (6.4mg/kg) compared to 12.5% with investigator's choice of chemotherapy (paclitaxel or irinotecan). Ten complete responses (CRs) and 41 partial responses (PRs) were seen in patients treated with Enhertu versus no CRs and seven PRs seen in patients treated with chemotherapy.
Patients treated with Enhertu had a 41% reduction in the risk of death versus patients treated with chemotherapy (based on a hazard ratio [HR] of 0.59; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.39-0.88; p=0.0097) at a pre-specified interim analysis. The median OS was 12.5 months versus 8.4 months with chemotherapy. The estimated OS rate at one year in the Enhertu arm was 52.1% and 28.9% with the chemotherapy arm.
Enhertu showed a confirmed disease control rate (DCR) of 85.7% versus 62.5% and a median confirmed duration of response (DoR) of 11.3 months versus 3.9 months with chemotherapy.
Gastric cancer
Gastric (stomach) cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer mortality with a five-year survival rate of 5% for metastatic disease; there were approximately one million new cases reported in 2018 and 783,000 deaths.1,2
Approximately one in five gastric cancers are HER2 positive.3,4 HER2 is a tyrosine kinase receptor growth-promoting protein expressed on the surface of many types of tumours including breast, gastric, lung and colorectal cancers. Gastric cancer is usually diagnosed in the advanced stage, but even when diagnosed in earlier stages of the disease the survival rate remains modest.7 Recommended 1st-line treatment for HER2-positive advanced or metastatic gastric cancer is combination chemotherapy plus trastuzumab, an anti-HER2 medicine, which has been shown to improve survival outcomes when added to chemotherapy. For gastric cancer that progresses on 1st-line treatment, there are no other approved HER2-targeted medicines.8
DESTINY-Gastric01
DESTINY-Gastric01 is a registrational Phase II, open-label, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial testing the safety and efficacy of Enhertu versus investigator's choice of chemotherapy in a primary cohort of 188 patients from
The primary endpoint of the trial is ORR, as assessed by independent central review. ORR, or tumour response rate, represents the percentage of patients whose disease decreased and/or disappears. OS was a key secondary endpoint to be statistically evaluated hierarchically at a prespecified interim analysis if the primary endpoint was statistically significant. Other secondary endpoints include progression-free survival, DoR, DCR and confirmed ORR assessed in those responses confirmed by a follow-up scan of at least four weeks after initial independent central review.9
Enhertu
Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan; fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki in the US) is a HER2-directed antibody drug conjugate (ADC) and is the lead ADC in the oncology portfolio of
Enhertu (5.4mg/kg) is approved in the US and
Enhertu clinical development
A comprehensive development programme is underway globally with six registrational trials evaluating the efficacy and safety of Enhertu monotherapy across multiple HER2-targetable cancers including breast, gastric and lung cancers. Trials in combination with other anticancer treatments, such as immunotherapy, are also underway.
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