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October 13, 2023
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VIDEO: Second-line tepotinib plus osimertinib benefits metastatic EGFR-mutated NSCLC

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Healio spoke with Melina Elpi Marmarelis, MD, about data from the INSIGHT 2 trial presented at this year’s International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer.

The study assessed the use of tepotinib (Tepmetko, Merck/EMD Serono) plus osimertinib (Tagrisso, AstraZeneca) in patients with EGFR-mutated, MET-amplified NSCLC who experienced disease progression after receiving osimertinib.

“They found a pretty impressive overall response rate of 50%, a median PFS of 5 months and a median duration of response of 8.5 months,” Melina Elpi Marmarelis, MD, medical director of the Penn Mesothelioma Program and an assistant professor of medicine (hematology-oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, told Healio.

“This impressive overall response rate as well as a fairly good PFS and median duration of response make it a nice option for patients in the second-line setting that just adds another pill to their treatment,” she added.