What is ENHERTU?
ENHERTU is a prescription medicine used to treat adults who have human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-low breast cancer that cannot be removed by surgery or that has spread to other parts of your body (metastatic), and who have received a prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease, or your disease has returned during or within 6 months of completing adjuvant chemotherapy (after surgery). Your healthcare provider will perform a test to make sure ENHERTU is right for you.How was ENHERTU studied in HER2-low mBC?
ENHERTU was studied in many types of adults, including those with different:
- Ages
- HR status
- Levels of HER2
- Number of previous treatments
At diagnosis, your healthcare provider performed a test to determine your HER2 status.
ENHERTU was compared to chemotherapy in a clinical study of 557 adults (373 treated with ENHERTU and 184 treated with chemotherapy) who:
- Had low levels of HER2 proteins
- Had either HR+ (494 people) or HR- (63 people) unresectable or metastatic breast cancer (mBC)
- Had already received chemotherapy for metastatic disease, or had the disease return during or within 6 months of completing adjuvant chemotherapy (after surgery)
- If HR+, had received at least one hormonal therapy or was ineligible for hormonal therapy
What were the results of the ENHERTU study?
ENHERTU nearly DOUBLED THE TIME people lived without their cancer growing or spreading compared to chemotherapy*†
In people who had either HR+ or HR- HER2-low mBC
This is called median progression-free survival.
A median is the middle number in a set of numbers.
*130 out of 373 people treated with ENHERTU lived without their cancer progressing or them dying; 57 out of 184 people treated with chemotherapy lived without their cancer progressing or them dying.
†Patients received physician’s choice of chemotherapy. Out of 184 patients, 94 received eribulin, 37 received capecitabine, 19 received gemcitabine, 19 received nab-paclitaxel, and 15 received paclitaxel.
- 331 people who were HR+ and who were treated with ENHERTU lived a median of 10.1 months without their cancer growing or spreading compared to 5.4 months for 163 people who were treated with chemotherapy
- The small group of 40 people included in this study who were HR- and treated with ENHERTU lived a median of 8.5 months without their cancer growing or spreading compared to 2.9 months for 18 people who were treated with chemotherapy‡
- - Before the approval of ENHERTU for HER2-low mBC, these people might have been told by their healthcare providers that they had triple-negative breast cancer (HR- and HER2-negative)
‡Not statistically significant. Statistical significance describes a mathematical measure of difference between groups. The difference is statistically significant if it is greater than what might be expected to happen by chance alone.
People treated with ENHERTU were alive a median of 23.4 months vs 16.8 months for those who received chemotherapy†§
In people who had either HR+ or HR- HER2-low mBC
This is called median overall survival.||
§224 out of 373 people treated with ENHERTU were alive; 94 out of 184 people treated with chemotherapy were alive.
||Median overall survival is the length of time, from either the date of diagnosis or the start of treatment, that half the patients in a group are still alive.
52.3% of people had their tumor(s) shrink or disappear with ENHERTU compared to 16.3% with chemotherapy†¶
In people who had either HR+ or HR- HER2-low mBC
More than 5 out of 10 people
responded to ENHERTU
About 1.5 out of 10 people
responded to chemotherapy
This is called overall response rate.#
Of the people who responded to ENHERTU:
- 3.5% of people treated with ENHERTU and 1.1% of people treated with chemotherapy achieved a complete response. A complete
response means the tumor could not be seen on imaging tests** - 49.1% of people treated with ENHERTU and 15.2% treated with chemotherapy achieved a partial response. A partial
response means there was at least 30% tumor shrinkage†† - 34.6% of people treated with ENHERTU and 49.5% treated with chemotherapy achieved stable disease. This means their tumor did not increase in size more than 20% nor decrease in size more than 30%‡‡
¶195 of 373 people treated with ENHERTU and 30 of 184 people treated with chemotherapy had their tumors shrink or stop growing.
#Not statistically significant. Statistical significance describes a mathematical measure of difference between groups. The difference is statistically significant if it is greater than what might be expected to happen by chance alone.
**13 of 373 people treated with ENHERTU and 2 of 184 people treated with chemotherapy achieved a complete response.
††183 of 373 people treated with ENHERTU and 28 of 184 people treated with chemotherapy achieved a partial response.
‡‡129 of 373 people treated with ENHERTU and 91 of 184 people treated with chemotherapy achieved stable disease.
Nearly 90% of people treated with ENHERTU had their tumor(s) respond to treatment in at least 1 of the following ways:
Shrink
Stop growing
Slow down
This is called disease control rate.§§
§§Disease control rate is the percentage of patients who have achieved complete response, partial response, or stable disease. 325 of 373 people treated with ENHERTU achieved disease control.
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HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; HR+, hormone receptor-positive; HR–, hormone receptor-negative.