posted on 2022-03-29, 10:15authored byTaylor & FrancisTaylor & Francis, Egbert F Smit, Christophe Dooms, Jo Raskin, Ernest Nadal, Lye Mun Tho, Xiuning Le, Julien Mazieres, How Soon Hin, Masahire Morise, Viola W Zhu, Daniel Tan, Kristina H Holmberg, Barbara Ellers-Lenz, Svenja Adrian, Sabine Brutlach, Karl Maria Schumacher, Niki Karachaliou, Yi-Long Wu
MET amplification (METamp), a mechanism of acquired resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors, occurs in up to 30% of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) progressing on first-line osimertinib. Combining osimertinib with a MET inhibitor, such as tepotinib, an oral, highly selective, potent MET tyrosine kinase inhibitor, may overcome METamp-driven resistance. INSIGHT 2 (NCT03940703), an international, open-label, multicenter phase II trial, assesses tepotinib plus osimertinib in patients with advanced/metastatic EGFR-mutant NSCLC and acquired resistance to first-line osimertinib and METamp, determined centrally by fluorescence in situ hybridization (gene copy number ≥5 and/or MET/CEP7 ≥2) at time of progression. Patients will receive tepotinib 500 mg (450 mg active moiety) plus osimertinib 80 mg once-a-day. The primary end point is objective response, and secondary end points include duration of response, progression-free survival, overall survival and safety.