Enhertu approved in the US as first HER2-directed therapy for patients with HER2-low or HER2-ultralow metastatic breast cancer following disease progression after one or more endocrine therapies
Based on DESTINY-Breast06 Phase III trial results which showed Enhertu demonstrated superiority vs. chemotherapy with a median progression-free survival of more than one year. Approval brings AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu to an earlier HR-positive treatment setting and broadens the patient population eligible for treatment with a HER2-directed therapy to those with HER2-ultralow disease.AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been approved in the US for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic hormone receptor (HR)-positive,