Therapy information had been analyzed from 3,276 instances of sufferers with newly identified EGFR mutant NSCLC from Guardant Well being (NASDAQ:)
Analyses of sufferers with non-classical EGFR mutations reveal that almost all obtain frontline chemotherapy and the rest are handled with osimertinib or afatinib
Quick time to remedy discontinuation starting from 4 to eight months demonstrates clear unmet want for sufferers with non-classical EGFR mutant NSCLC
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NASDAQ:), a clinical-stage oncology firm growing MasterKey therapies that focus on households of oncogenic mutations in sufferers with most cancers, in the present day offered a poster analyzing real-world remedy outcomes for newly identified non-small cell lung most cancers (NSCLC) sufferers with non-classical EGFR mutations (NCMs) on the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2024 happening September 13-17, in Barcelona, Spain.
Of 11,434 sequenced instances of newly identified and treatment-naïve EGFRm NSCLC inside the Guardant Well being (GuardantINFORM™) clinical-genomic database, first-line remedy info was obtainable and evaluated for 3,276 sufferers. Outcomes revealed the presence of a broad spectrum of NCMs, together with P-loop and αC-helix compressing (PACC) mutations, and allowed correlation with real-world remedy practices and therapeutic outcomes.  Findings additional demonstrated that present remedy practices for sufferers with NCMs are heterogenous: 36% of sufferers acquired osimertinib or afatinib and 60% of sufferers acquired chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy.
There’s a rising unmet want for brand new therapies for newly identified NSCLC sufferers with PACC and different non-classical EGFR mutations, stated John Heymach, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at MD Anderson Most cancers Middle. Actual-world remedy outcomes present that present EGFR TKIs present little profit to those sufferers, and chemotherapy brings important toxicity, administration burden, and restricted efficacy.
Newly identified sufferers expressing NCMs discontinued osimertinib remedy at a median of 6.0 months versus sufferers expressing classical mutations, who remained on remedy for 13.8 months. Sufferers receiving afatinib discontinued remedy at a median of 8.0 months, and the median time to remedy discontinuation for sufferers on chemotherapy was 4.2 months.
BDTX-1535 was designed to handle a broad spectrum of EGFR mutations, with emphasis on non-classical mutations that stretch past PACC mutations, stated Elizabeth Buck, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Black Diamond Therapeutics. BDTX-1535 is essentially the most superior fourth- technology EGFR TKI in medical improvement to handle this underserved affected person inhabitants.
The brand new real-world outcomes construct upon findings offered on the 2024 American Affiliation of Most cancers Analysis (AACR) Annual Assembly across the evolving EGFR mutation panorama in NSCLC that exposed greater than 100 NCMs, which might be current in 20-30% of newly identified sufferers. Black Diamond plans to reveal preliminary Part 2 information in Q1 2025 within the first-line NCM setting. The corporate additionally plans to launch preliminary Part 2 leads to the second/third-line setting later this month.
About Black Diamond Therapeutics
Black Diamond Therapeutics is a clinical-stage oncology firm growing MasterKey therapies that focus on households of oncogenic mutations in sufferers with most cancers. The Firm’s MasterKey therapies are designed to handle a broad spectrum of genetically outlined tumors, overcome resistance, reduce wild-type mediated toxicities, and be mind penetrant to deal with CNS illness. The Firm is advancing two clinical-stage packages: BDTX-1535, a brain-penetrant fourth-generation EGFR MasterKey inhibitor concentrating on EGFR mutant NSCLC and GBM, and BDTX-4933, a brain-penetrant RAF MasterKey inhibitor concentrating on KRAS, NRAS and BRAF alterations in stable tumors. For extra info, please go to www.blackdiamondtherapeutics.com.
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Statements contained on this press launch relating to issues that aren’t historic information are forward-looking statements inside the which means of the Personal Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. As a result of such statements are topic to dangers and uncertainties, precise outcomes could differ materially from these expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements embody, however aren’t restricted to, statements relating to: the unmet want for brand new therapies for newly identified NSCLC sufferers with non-classical EGFR mutations and the potential of BDTX-1535 to handle this unmet medical want and profit sufferers with NSCLC throughout a number of traces of remedy, the continued improvement and development of BDTX-1535, together with the continued medical trial and the timing of medical updates for BDTX-1535 in sufferers with NSCLC, and potential future improvement plans for BDTX-1535 in NSCLC. Any forward-looking statements on this press launch are based mostly on administration’s present expectations of future occasions and are topic to plenty of dangers and uncertainties that would trigger precise outcomes to vary materially and adversely from these set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Dangers that contribute to the unsure nature of the forward-looking statements embody these dangers and uncertainties set forth in its Annual Report on Kind 10-Okay for the 12 months ended December 31, 2023, filed with the USA Securities and Trade Fee and in its subsequent filings filed with the USA Securities and Trade Fee. All forward-looking statements contained on this press launch converse solely as of the date on which they had been made. The Firm undertakes no obligation to replace such statements to replicate occasions that happen or circumstances that exist after the date on which they had been made.
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