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Dr. Susan Galbraith

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Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

So it's overall a 56% rate of crossover onto Ascent.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

In the tropium breast O2 study, around 30% of patients ended up on a second line antibody drug conjugate, either a trop2 or a HER2 directed antibody drug conjugate.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

So the rates of crossover aren't as high

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

The difference between those aren't as big as perhaps, you know, people when they react to the 80% number first thing is, you know, and what we saw is even though we got a 30% crossover is still translated through to an improvement in this overall

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

survival number.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

And I think that's those sets of data, high response rate, good durability of response, leading to progression-free survival of five months and a five-month improvement in overall survival.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

The totality of those data really have a compelling argument that this is the best-in-class trope to ADC.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

And it's great to have an option for patients in a segment of the disease where there hasn't been an improvement for over a decade.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

So it's very exciting.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

Yeah, sure.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

So you're absolutely right that over time physicians learn to deal with the side effects of treatment.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

And actually the breast cancer physicians have had other drugs that they've had experience with stomatitis with some of the PI3 kinase inhibitors, for example.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

Yes, stomatitis is clearly seen.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

It can be managed with either ice chips during the period of the infusion in the mouth or with a corticosteroid mouthwash.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

Both of those as management techniques on the experience of investigators are reducing the impact of the stomatitis.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

Obviously, it's important that

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

patients and their caregivers understand what those opportunities are for improving to this.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

And for some patients, it does become an issue.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

But for the majority of patients, it hasn't prevented them from taking Datraway.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates

There's a very low rate of discontinuation due to stomatitis on the Datraway studies.