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Amgen NSCLC Data Could Give Lumakras Boost As Competition Looms

 
• By Alaric DeArment

Mirati’s adagrasib is expected to win an FDA lung cancer nod, while also showing better data in pancreatic and colorectal cancer, making it more important for Lumakras to show strength in NSCLC.

Amgen announced longer-term data for Lumakras in NSCLC • Source: Alamy

Amgen, Inc. KRAS inhibitor Lumakras (sotorasib)’s market position stands to gain from two-year follow-up data from the company’s pivotal study in non-small cell lung cancer showing continued benefit on survival. Longer-term survival data could help bolster Amgen’s commercial case for its drug as it gears up for potentially stiff competition from Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.’s adagrasib, a competing drug in the same class that is widely expected to get US Food and Drug Administration approval and has shown better data than Lumakras in two other key KRAS-mutated cancers.

Amgen presented two-year follow-up data from the Phase I/II CodeBreaK 100 study in patients with KRAS G12C-mutated advanced non-small cell...

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