AAA Announces Positive Results From Phase 3 Study NETTER-1 Evaluating Lutathera in Patients with Advanced Midgut Neuroendocrine Tumors

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Advanced Accelerator Applications announced today at ECC 2015 that the pivotal Phase 3 NETTER-1 study for Lutathera (177Lu-DOTATATE) met its primary endpoint of assessing progression-free survival (PFS), demonstrating that Lutathera significantly improved PFS when compared with Sandostatin LAR 60mg (Octreotide LAR) in patients with advanced midgut neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).

The NETTER-1 study met its primary endpoint by demonstrating that treatment with Lutathera was associated with a statistically significant and clinically meaningful risk reduction of 79% of disease progression or death versus a treatment with a double dose of Octreotide LAR (hazard ratio 0.21, 95% CI: 0.13-0.34; p<0.0001). The median PFS in the Lutathera arm is not yet reached, whilst the median PFS in the Octreotide LAR 60 mg arm was 8.4 months. The adverse events observed on Lutathera in NETTER-1 are consistent with the results of Lutathera’s previous Phase I-II study, with Lutathera demonstrating a favorable safety profile.

“NETTER-1 is the first large scale, multinational Phase 3 trial to demonstrate the efficacy of Lutathera in patients with advanced midgut NETs,” said Stefano Buono, Chief Executive Officer of AAA. “We are very pleased with the favorable results demonstrated in the study. We believe that Lutathera has the potential to provide a clinically significant benefit for patients and improve the standard of care for this disease.”

Prof. Philippe Ruszniewski, Gastroenterology-Pancreatology Dept, Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, and Dean of the School of Medicine at Paris Diderot University (France), a study investigator commented: “The NETTER-1 results demonstrate a clinically important and statistically significant increase in progression-free survival for patients with advanced midgut NETs treated with Lutathera. This is the first time a Phase 3 clinical trial has demonstrated an increased PFS with PRRT in the treatment of GEP-NETs.“

The results were presented in late-breaking abstract 6LBA “177-Lu-Dotatate significantly improves progression-free survival in patients with mid gut neuroendocrine tumors: Results of the phase III NETTER-1 trial.” This abstract was presented today at the European Cancer Congress in Vienna during Presidential Session II.