SAN MATEO, CALIF. -- BeiGene, Ltd. (NASDAQ: BGNE; HKEX: 06160; SSE: 688235), a global oncology company, announced it will share new data across a range of B-cell malignancies and assets, including best-in-class Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor BRUKINSA® (zanubrutinib), at the 66th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, December 7-10. BeiGene has 21 abstracts accepted at ASH 2024, with four selected for oral presentation.
“In the five years since its initial approval, BRUKINSA has become a standard of care for patients facing many B-cell malignancies, and our data featured at ASH demonstrated how long-term follow-up of treatment with BRUKINSA elicited deep and durable responses, including in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia,” said Mehrdad Mobasher, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Medical Officer, Hematology at BeiGene. “BRUKINSA is just the starting point - pipeline data for our BTK degrader BGB-16673 and BCL2 inhibitor sonrotoclax showcase our continued leadership across the hematology landscape and our commitment to bringing innovative medicines to as many people with cancer as possible.”
Presentations Highlight Sustained Progression-Free Survival and Deepening Durable Responses for Patients Treated with BRUKINSA in Treatment-Naïve and Relapsed/Refractory (R/R) Settings
· Five-year follow-up results from Cohort 1 of the Phase 3 SEQUOIA study showed sustained progression-free survival (PFS) benefit with BRUKINSA in patients with treatment-naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), with no new safety signals observed.
· Results from the LTE (long-term extension rollover) study of patients with treatment-naïve and R/R CLL also showed that treatment with BRUKINSA as a single agent or as an investigational treatment in combination with obinutuzumab achieved high overall and complete response rates. With a median follow-up of up to 6.5 years, the responses were sustained, and no new safety signals were observed.
· Results from an LTE study of patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) from the Phase 3 ASPEN study, with a median follow-up of up to 5.8 years, demonstrated that treatment with BRUKINSA monotherapy remained durable and the safety/tolerability profile remained favorable.
· Data from a Phase 2 study showed patients with prior intolerance to acalabrutinib were able to safely and effectively switch to BRUKINSA, with the majority of patients not experiencing recurrence of prior acalabrutinib-intolerance events while maintaining or deepening responses.
Pipeline Data Show Early Safety and Efficacy Across Multiple B-cell Malignancies
· First-in-human Phase 1/2 CaDAnCe-101 presentations (two oral, one poster) highlighted generally manageable safety and promising efficacy results for BTK degrader, BGB-16673, in patients with R/R CLL/SLL, WM, and R/R indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. BGB-16673, which induces BTK degradation, is the first and most advanced asset from BeiGene’s chimeric degradation activation compound (CDAC) platform.
· Oral presentation of the BGB-11417-101 Phase 1 study demonstrated B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL2) inhibitor sonrotoclax in combination with BRUKINSA continued to show promising efficacy and was generally well-tolerated in patients with treatment-naïve CLL/SLL; this combination is being evaluated in the Phase 3 CELESTIAL-TNCLL study (NCT06073821).
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