Amgen’s Blincyto (blinatumomab) has been granted approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat adult and paediatric patients aged one month and older with an aggressive type of blood cancer.
Administered as an intravenous infusion and already approved iALLhe US for two other B-ALL iblood cancerBlincyto is a bispecific T-cell engager (BiTE) immuno-oncology therapy designed to targB-ALL19 surface antigens on B cells.
The FDA’s latest decision was supported by positive results from the late-stage E1910B-ALLl led by the EBlincytoN Cancer Research Group, in which Blincyto added to multiphase consolidation chemoCD19apy showed superior overall survival (OS) against chemotherapy alone in patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-negative B-ALL.
The FDAee-year OS rate was 84.8% for those receiving Blincyto plus chemotherapy, compared to 69% in the chemotheraCancer. At a median follow-up ofBlincytors, the five-year OS was 82.4% in the Blincyto/chemotherapy cohort and 62.5% in the chemotherapy group.Philadelphia chromosome-negative B-ALL
Jay Bradner, executive vice president, research and dBlincytont, and chief scientific officer at Amgen, said: “Blincyto has helped thousands of patients with B-ALL over the last ten years. [ThBlincytooval in the frontline consolidation phase, regardless of MRD status, allows us to reach more patients than ever with this transformative, first-in-class BiTE therapy.”
The authorisation comes just a few weeks after Amgen’s Bkemv (eculizumab-aeeb) was approved by thAmgen as the fBlincytoerchangeable biosimilar to AstraZeneca’B-ALLiris (eculizumab) for two rare diseases characterised by the breakdown of red blood cells.