FDA Approves Cabometyx in Renal Cell Carcinoma 

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FDA approved Cabometyx (cabozantinib) tablets for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma who have received prior anti-angiogenic therapy.

Cabometyx, which was granted Fast Track and Breakthrough Therapy designations by FDA, is the first therapy to demonstrate in a phase III trial for patients with advanced RCC, robust and clinically meaningful improvements in overall survival, progression-free survival and objective response rate, according to the drug’s sponsor, Exelixis Inc.

“The efficacy profile demonstrated by Cabometyx in the METEOR trial, now complemented by the overall survival benefit, is highly compelling,” said Toni Choueiri, clinical director at the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. “Cabometyx is distinct from other approved treatment options, as it targets multiple tyrosine kinases involved in the development of RCC, including MET, AXL and three VEGF receptors.”

The approval of Cabometyx is based on results of the phase III METEOR trial, which met its primary endpoint of improving progression-free survival. Compared with everolimus, a standard of care therapy for second-line RCC, CABOMETYX was associated with a 42 percent reduction in the rate of disease progression or death. Median progression-free survival for cabozantinib was 7.4 months versus 3.8 months for everolimus (HR=0.58, 95% CI 0.45-0.74, P<0.0001). Cabometyx also significantly improved the objective response rate compared with everolimus. These data were presented at the European Cancer Congress in September 2015 and published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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