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Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Previously Treated HER2-Positive Gastric Cancer.

N Engl J Med

June 2020

From the National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa (K. Shitara), the National Cancer Center Hospital (S.I.), Daiichi Sankyo (T.K., A.K., M.S.), and the Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR (K.Y.), Tokyo, the Osaka International Cancer Institute (N.S.), Osaka University Hospital (D.S.), and Kindai University Hospital (H.K.), Osaka, and Niigata Cancer Center Hospital, Niigata (H.Y.) - all in Japan; Seoul National University College of Medicine (Y.-J.B.), the Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine (M.-H.R.), the Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine (H.-C.C.), and the Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine (J.L.) - all in Seoul, South Korea; and Daiichi Sankyo, Basking Ridge, NJ (K. Saito, Y.K.).

Background: Trastuzumab deruxtecan (DS-8201) is an antibody-drug conjugate consisting of an anti-HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) antibody, a cleavable tetrapeptide-based linker, and a cytotoxic topoisomerase I inhibitor. The drug may have efficacy in patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric cancer.

Methods: In an open-label, randomized, phase 2 trial, we evaluated trastuzumab deruxtecan as compared with chemotherapy in patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric cancer.

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