Company: AZN
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001654954-25-004745
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Company: ASTRAZENECA PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: 6-K
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 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) based its positive opinion on results from the AMPLIFY Phase III trial , which were presented at the American Society of Haematology (ASH) 2024 Annual Meeting and published in The New England Journal of Medicine . 1

Results showed Calquence plus venetoclax reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 35% compared to standard-of-care chemoimmunotherapy (investigator's choice of fludarabine-cyclophosphamide-rituximab or bendamustine-rituximab; hazard ratio [HR] 0.65; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.49-0.87; p=0.0038). Calquence plus venetoclax with obinutuzumab demonstrated a 58% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared to standard-of-care chemoimmunotherapy (HR 0.42; 95% CI 0.30-0.59; p<0.0001). 2

At three years, 77% of patients treated with Calquence plus venetoclax and 83% of patients treated with Calquence plus venetoclax and obinutuzumab were progression free, versus 67% of patients treated with chemoimmunotherapy. 1 Median progression-free survival (PFS) was not reached for either experimental arm versus 47.6 months for chemoimmunotherapy. 1

Wojciech Jurczak, MD, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Institute of Oncology, Kraków, Poland and investigator for the trial, said: "Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia is an incurable cancer which means patients live with the disease and stay on treatment for many years, which can have long-term effects. The fixed-duration Calquence regimens will allow patients to take breaks from their treatment, reducing the risk of long-term adverse events and drug resistance."

Susan Galbraith, Executive Vice President, Oncology Haematology R&D, AstraZeneca, said: "With this recommendation, Calquence plus venetoclax can potentially be the only all-oral second-generation BTK inhibitor option approved in Europe for patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Calquence has demonstrated efficacy and safety in fixed-duration and treat-to-progression regimens providing patients and their doctors more treatment flexibility."

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