On Tuesday, the FDA authorized NovoCure’s NVCR Optune Lua for concurrent use with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors or docetaxel for grownup sufferers with metastatic non-small cell lung most cancers (mNSCLC) who’ve progressed on or after a platinum-based routine.
Optune Lua is a transportable system that produces alternating electrical fields referred to as tumor-treating fields (TTFields), delivered by non-invasive, wearable arrays.
TTFields exert bodily forces on the electrically charged parts of dividing most cancers cells, leading to cell loss of life.
“The general survival outcomes we noticed with Optune Lua within the LUNAR research mark the primary substantial enchancment in additional than eight years on this affected person inhabitants, which, when mixed with Optune Lua’s lack of systemic toxicity,” mentioned Ticiana Leal, major investigator of the LUNAR research.
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The first endpoint of the Part 3 LUNAR research was achieved, demonstrating a statistically important and clinically significant 3.3-month (P=0.04) extension in median total survival (OS) for sufferers handled with Optune Lua concurrently with a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor or docetaxel (n=145).
The group handled with Optune Lua concurrently with a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor or docetaxel had a median OS of 13.2 months in comparison with a median OS of 9.9 months within the PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor or docetaxel-treated group.
The LUNAR research included two pre-specified powered secondary endpoints.
The primary secondary endpoint, which met statistical significance, assessed median OS in sufferers handled with Optune Lua concurrently with a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor versus a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor alone. The second secondary endpoint, which confirmed a constructive pattern however didn’t meet statistical significance, assessed Optune Lua concurrently with docetaxel versus docetaxel alone.
Sufferers randomized to Optune Lua and a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor (n=70) demonstrated a median OS of 19.0 months in comparison with 10.8 months in sufferers handled with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor alone (n=71), which was a statistically important extension in median OS of greater than 8.0 months (P=0.02).
Sufferers randomized to obtain Optune Lua and docetaxel (n=75) had a median OS of 11.1 months in comparison with 8.9 months in sufferers handled with docetaxel alone (n=75). This 2.2-month extension in median OS didn’t present a statistically important demonstrated profit however did present a constructive pattern.
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