First FDA-approved antibody-drug conjugate that targets the Trop-2 antigen
Trodelvy is the first antibody-drug conjugate
approved by FDA specifically for the treatment of relapsed or refractory
metastatic triple-negative breast cancer
Company to host conference call today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Immunomedics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMMU)
(“Immunomedics” or the “Company”), a leading biopharmaceutical company
in the area of antibody-drug conjugates (ADC), today announced that the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Trodelvy™
(sacituzumab govitecan-hziy) for the treatment of adult patients with
metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who have received at
least two prior therapies for metastatic disease. Trodelvy is the first
ADC approved by the FDA specifically for relapsed or refractory
metastatic TNBC and is also the first FDA-approved anti-Trop-2 ADC.1
Trodelvy, which was granted Breakthrough Therapy
Designation and Priority Review, was approved under the FDA’s
Accelerated Approval Program based on the objective response rate (ORR)
and duration of response (DoR) observed in a single-arm, multicenter
Phase 2 study. Continued approval may be contingent upon verification of
clinical benefit in the confirmatory Phase 3 ASCENT study, which was
recently halted by the independent Data Safety Monitoring Committee
(DSMC) for compelling evidence of efficacy across multiple endpoints.
“The approval of Trodelvy, the first ADC approved
specifically for metastatic TNBC, an aggressive cancer with a poor
prognosis and few effective therapies, will give clinicians a novel tool
for treating patients with this disease,” stated Aditya Bardia, MD,
MPH, Director of Precision Medicine at the Center for Breast Cancer,
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of
Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bardia was the lead investigator
of the Phase 2 study. “In our trial, Trodelvy demonstrated clinically
meaningful responses in patients with difficult-to-treat metastatic TNBC
and moves the needle towards better outcomes for patients with
metastatic breast cancer.”
The Company will host a
conference call and live audio webcast today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
to discuss the FDA approval. To access the conference call, please dial
(877) 303-2523 or (253) 237-1755 using the Conference ID 4987526. The
conference call will be webcast via the Investors page on the Company’s
website at https://immunomedics.com/investors/.
Approximately two hours following the live event, a webcast replay of
the conference call will be available on the Company’s website for
approximately 30 days.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/04/22/2020193/0/en/FDA-Grants-Accelerated-Approval-for-Immunomedics-Trodelvy-in-Previously-Treated-Metastatic-Triple-Negative-Breast-Cancer.html
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