ENHERTU + Pertuzumab Granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation in the US as 1L Therapy for Patients with HER2+ve Metastatic Breast Cancer
“This Breakthrough Therapy Designation provides further recognition of the potential benefit of ENHERTU in combination with pertuzumab in the first-line setting of HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer,” said Ken Takeshita, MD, Global Head, R&D, Daiichi Sankyo. “If approved, ENHERTU will continue to redefine the treatment of metastatic breast cancer as these latest results from DESTINY-Breast09 demonstrate a median progression-free survival of more than three years when using ENHERTU plus pertuzumab in this disease setting, which is an improvement over the current standard of care that has been in place for more than a decade.”
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