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Bintrafusp alfa appears to yield durable responses in the second line among patients with high PD-L1–expressing non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to research presented at the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program.
An ongoing phase 1 trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02517398) of bintrafusp alfa, a transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta “trap” fused to an antibody that blocks PD-L1 — also known as an antibody-drug conjugate [ADC]) — previously showed an overall response rate (ORR) of 25%.
For this presentation, researchers highlighted long-term efficacy and safety follow-up data among patients with NSCLC receiving this first-in-class treatment.
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For this ongoing trial, researchers are randomly assigning patients with advanced NSCLC, unselected for PD-L1 expression, to receive bintrafusp alfa 500 mg or the recommended phase 2 dose of 1200 mg. Treatment is continued until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Forty patients were assigned to each arm (80 individuals); 17 (21.3%) patients overall had received at least 2 prior therapies. No patients, however, had received prior immunotherapy.
Among the 22.7% (17 of 75 patients with evaluable data) responders, the median durations of response (DOR) were 15.3 months and 18 months in the 500 mg and 1200 mg cohorts, respectively. In the 3 ongoing responses, all had PD-L1–positive disease. Approximately 64% percent of patients had responses lasting 12 months or longer.
Grade 3 adverse events were noted in 23 (28.8%) patients; grade 4 events occurred in 2 (2.5%) patients. Only 1 further treatment discontinuation due to a treatment-related event (pruritis) was noted in this long-term analysis.
The median overall survival was 13.6 months regardless of biomarker status. Median OS was 21.7 months in patients with PD-L1–positive disease and not yet reached in the PD-L1–high disease subgroup.
“An ongoing phase 3 study is evaluating bintrafusp alfa compared with pembrolizumab as 1L treatment for patients with advanced NSCLC who have high PD-L1 expression ([email protected] LUNG 037; NCT03631706),” the authors added on their poster.
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Reference
Cho BC, Kim TM, Vicente D, et al. Two-year follow-up of bintrafusp alfa, a bifunctional fusion protein targeting TGF-β and PD-L1, for second-line (2L) treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Poster presented at: ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program. J Clin Oncol. 2020;38(suppl):abstr 9558.
