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Enhertu demonstrates improvement in invasive DFS in HER2+ breast cancer after neoadjuvant therapy

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Positive high-level results showed Enhertu (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) demonstrated a highly statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in invasive disease-free survival versus trastuzumab emtansine in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer with residual invasive disease in the breast or axillary lymph nodes after neoadjuvant treatment and a high-risk of disease recurrence, according to a planned interim analysis of the DESTINY-Breast05 phase III trial. 

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