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Among patients with HER2-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) shows promising efficacy, according to research presented at the ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program.
T-DXd, which is composed in part of an anti-HER2 antibody, showed promising effectiveness in a previous phase 1 trial in patients with HER2-mutated NSCLC. In DESTINY-Lung01 (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03505710), an ongoing phase 2 trial of T-DXd, researchers are evaluating the drug’s safety and efficacy among patients with non-squamous NSCLC which either overexpresses HER2 or contains a HER2-activating mutation. For this presentation, the authors highlighted the interim results from cohort 2 — patients with a HER2 mutation — of DESTINY-Lung01.
All included patients have unresectable or metastatic NSCLC, which has either relapsed or is refractory to standard treatment, and have received no prior HER2 targeted therapy, except for pan-HER tyrosine kinase inhibitors. The study’s primary outcome is overall response rate (ORR).
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Overall, 84 patients have been enrolled, with 42 in cohort 1 (HER2 overexpression) and 42 in cohort 2. In cohort 2, the median age was 63 years, 64.3% of patients were female, and 45.2% had central nervous system metastases.
At the data cut-off point in November 2019, 45.2% (19) of patients in cohort 2 had remained on study treatment.
The median follow-up was 8 months. Twenty-six (61.9%) patients had an ORR as confirmed by independent central review. Among these, 1 (2.4%) was a complete response and 25 (59.5%) were partial responses. Twelve (28.6%) patients had stable disease, 2 (4.8%) had progressive disease, and 2 (4.8%) did not have evaluable data.
The duration of response was not reached (95% CI, 5.3-not reached), and the median progression-free survival was 14 months (95% CI, 6.4-14).
Overall, the median treatment duration was 7.76 months. All patients had a treatment-related adverse event (AE), with 27 (64.3%) having a grade 3 or worse AE. Serious drug-related AEs occurred in 7 (16.7%) patients.
The authors noted that interstitial lung disease was an AE of special interest, which occurred in 5 patients, but was not associated with any deaths.
Five patient deaths occurred in conjunction with a treatment-related AE, but the investigators did not determine these to be related to the drug.
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Reference
Smit EF, Nakagawa K, Nagasaka M, et al. Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd; DS-8201) in patients with HER2-mutated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Interim results of DESTINY-Lung01. Presented at: ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program. J Clin Oncol. 2020;38(suppl):abstr 9504.
