Roche Reports Kadcyla (trastuzumab emtansine) vs Herceptin (trastuzumab) Achieve 1EP in P-III KATHERINE study
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- The P-III KATHERINE study involves assessing of Kadcyla vs Herceptin + taxane-based CT as an adjuvant treatment in people with HER2-positive early breast cancer (eBC) who didn’t achieve pathological complete response to neoadjuvant treatment
- The P-III KATHERINE study met 1EP endpoints i.e. iDFS the time period to invasive breast cancer recurrence or death. No new safety signals were observed & included DFS & OS as 2EP
- Kadcyla is an Ab-drug conjugate (ADC) for inducing CT into HER2-positive cancer cells- approved drug in 104 countries including the US and EU. Roche is licensing a technology for Kadcyla from ImmunoGen
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