Sunday, Summit Therapeutics Inc. SMMT launched knowledge from the first evaluation of the Part 3 HARMONi-2 trial of ivonescimab performed in China, sponsored by collaboration companion Akeso, Inc.
The information was offered on the Worldwide Affiliation for the Research of Lung Most cancers’s 2024 World Convention on Lung Most cancers.
The trial evaluated monotherapy ivonescimab towards monotherapy Merck & Co Inc’s MRK Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in sufferers with domestically superior or metastatic non-small cell lung most cancers whose tumors have constructive PD-L1 expression.
Ivonescimab monotherapy demonstrated a statistically vital enchancment within the trial’s major endpoint, progression-free survival, in comparison with monotherapy pembrolizumab, reaching a hazard ratio (HR) of 0.51.
Ivonescimab slashed the chance of illness development or demise by 49% in contrast with Merck’s Keytruda.
In contrast with Keytruda, ivonescimab prolonged the median progression-free survival, reaching 11.14 months vs. 5.82 months for Keytruda.
A clinically significant profit was demonstrated throughout scientific subgroups, together with these with PD-L1 high and low expression, squamous and non-squamous histologies, and different high-risk sufferers.
The general response price (ORR) and the illness management price (DCR) have been greater in sufferers handled with ivonescimab than these handled with pembrolizumab. ORR was noticed at 50% vs. 38.5, and DCR was 89.9% versus 70.5%, respectively.
General survival knowledge was not but mature on the time of the information cutoff and can be evaluated sooner or later.
Summit plans to provoke HARMONi-7 in early 2025, a multi-regional Part 3 trial to check ivonescimab monotherapy to pembrolizumab monotherapy in sufferers with metastatic NSCLC whose tumors have excessive PD-L1 expression.
The corporate additionally shared knowledge from the Part 2 trial of ivonescimab alone or mixed with chemotherapy in resectable non-small cell lung most cancers, performed in Chinese language sufferers.
The examine is designed to evaluate sufferers receiving both ivonescimab monotherapy or ivonescimab plus chemotherapy earlier than surgical resection after which ivonescimab monotherapy after surgical procedure.
Of the 39 sufferers who acquired ivonescimab plus chemotherapy within the neo-adjuvant stage and accomplished surgical procedure, 71.8% skilled a significant pathological response, and 43.6% skilled a pathological full response.
Within the 49 sufferers enrolled on this cohort, median event-free survival (EFS) was not but reached after 8.9 months of median follow-up time; the 12-month EFS price was 80.3%.
The security profile was manageable: of the 49 sufferers who acquired ivonescimab plus chemotherapy within the neoadjuvant setting.
There have been no TRAEs resulting in delayed or canceled surgical procedure or the demise of a affected person.
Worth Motion: SMMT inventory is up 30.4% at $16.00 throughout the premarket session eventually test Monday.
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