Regulatory approval

Published by the European Medicines Agency.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has authorized tremelimumab in combination with durvalumab and platinum-based chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with no sensitizing EGFR mutations or ALK-positive mutations. This indication is based on POSEIDON, a randomized, open-label, and multicenter study where patients received one of the following chemotherapy regimes: Pemetrexed in combination with carboplatin or cisplatin for patients with non-squamous NSCLC, gemcitabine with cisplatin or carboplatin for patients with squamous NSCLC, and nab-paclitaxel with carboplatin for either non-squamous or squamous NSCLC.

This is written in the approval document as:

Tremelimumab AstraZeneca in combination with durvalumab and platinum-based chemotherapy is indicated for the first-line treatment of adults with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with no sensitising EGFR mutations or ALK positive mutations.

Citation

AstraZeneca AB. Tremelimumab AstraZeneca (tremelimumab) [product information]. European Medicines Agency website. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/product-information/tremelimumab-astrazeneca-epar-product-information_en.pdf. Revised September 2023. Accessed March 25, 2024.

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Organization(s) Biomarker(s) Cancer type Therapy(ies)
EMA (1) Wild type ALK, Wild type EGFR Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Carboplatin, Durvalumab, Pemetrexed, Tremelimumab
EMA (1) Wild type ALK, Wild type EGFR Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cisplatin, Durvalumab, Pemetrexed, Tremelimumab
EMA (1) Wild type ALK, Wild type EGFR Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Carboplatin, Durvalumab, Gemcitabine, Tremelimumab
EMA (1) Wild type ALK, Wild type EGFR Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cisplatin, Durvalumab, Gemcitabine, Tremelimumab
EMA (1) Wild type ALK, Wild type EGFR Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Carboplatin, Durvalumab, Nab-paclitaxel, Tremelimumab