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AstraZeneca & Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu Approved by FDA for Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer

New approval brings the medicine to an earlier treatment setting and a broader patient population.

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By: Charlie Sternberg

Associate Editor

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been approved in the U.S. for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-low (IHC 1+ or IHC 2+/ISH-) or HER2-ultralow (IHC 0 with membrane staining) breast cancer, as determined by an FDA-approved test, that has progressed on one or more endocrine therapies in the metastatic setting. The approval was granted by the FDA after securing Priority Review and Breakthrough ...

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