ASTRO 2025: Final Results from Pivotal Ph 3 METIS Trial of TTFields Therapy for Brain Mets from NSCLC presented
“One of the challenges in treating patients with primary lung cancer is the high incidence of brain metastases in this population. When Tumor Treating Fields therapy was used to treat patients in the METIS trial, we saw a significant delay in the progression of intracranial metastases without adding systemic toxicity or causing neurocognitive side effects associated with other current treatments,” said Nicolas Leupin, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, Novocure. “We plan to submit our premarket approval application to the FDA for the treatment of adult patients with brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer in the coming weeks.”
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