UK – AstraZeneca/Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu recommended by NICE for advanced breast cancer

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the treatment of HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic breast cancer after at least one anti-HER2 therapy.

The recommendation follows updated results from the DESTINY-Breast03 phase 3 trial, announced by the companies earlier this month, in which Enhertu demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival compared to standard of care trastuzumab emtansine in patients previously treated with trastuzumab and a taxane.

The observed survival benefit was consistent across analysed subgroups, including patients with or without baseline brain metastases, with or without baseline visceral disease, those who were HR-positive or HR-negative, and regardless of prior pertuzumab or lines of systemic therapy…