Puma's Neratinib SUMMIT Study Shows Potential & Pitfalls Of Precision Medicine

"Basket trial" design allowed Puma to identify certain cohorts for further study, but also missed in areas where neratinib was expected to work.

Puma Biotechnology Inc.'s innovative "basket trial" of its neratinib in a wide variety of cancers highlights the drug's potential beyond breast cancer, but also shows the challenges of studying patients according to mutations, rather than tumor type.

The company presented results for neratinib, an irreversible pan-HER targeting tyrosine kinase inhibitor, as a monotherapy in the Phase II SUMMIT study of multiple solid tumor types with HER2- and HER3-activating mutations on April

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