As More DLL3 Bispecifics Advance, Doctors Are Adjusting To CRS, ICANS

BiTEs Bring New Side Effects To Solid Tumor Setting

Amgen’s Imdelltra for small-cell lung cancer is one of two bispecific T-cell engagers approved for solid tumors, but data at the WCLC meeting show other DLL3-targeting BiTEs may be on the way.

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Amgen, Inc.’s Imdelltra (tarlatamab) for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) is one of only two bispecific T-cell engagers (BiTEs) approved in the US to treat solid tumors. As additional DLL3-targeting BiTEs near the market, those drugs may benefit from doctors’ earlier experience learning to manage adverse events for BiTEs and other T-cell recruiters – chiefly cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS)

Key Takeaways
  • Data for DLL3-targeting bispecific T-cell engagers (BiTEs) – Amgen’s Imdelltra, Boehringer’s obrixtamig and Merck/Daiichi’s MK-6070 – show efficacy that may best the standard of care in small-cell lung cancer but with adverse events previously uncommon with solid tumor drugs

Clinical trial results were presented at the recent World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) for Imdelltra and two other DLL3 BiTEs – Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH’s obrixtamig (BI 764532) and Merck & Co., Inc.’s MK-6070, developed with partner Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd

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