About the trial
As you look through the trial results for DATROWAY, here are important points to note:
- The trial was open label, meaning that both the people being treated and trial investigators knew which treatments were received. Therefore, the results could have been influenced by people switching to another treatment, leaving the study, or other factors
- People were treated with either DATROWAY or a chemotherapy treatment*
- At the time of data analysis, people in the trial were monitored for about 11 months after they started treatment. This is called the median duration of follow-up
- Median is the middle number in a set of numbers. It is used to give an accurate picture of a range of data
*Doctor’s choice of chemotherapy (60% of patients received eribulin, 21% of patients received capecitabine, 10% of patients received vinorelbine, and 9% of patients received gemcitabine).
HR=hormone receptor; HER2=human epidermal growth factor receptor 2.
*Doctor’s choice of chemotherapy (60% of patients received eribulin, 21% of patients received capecitabine, 10% of patients received vinorelbine, and 9% of patients received gemcitabine).
HR=hormone receptor; HER2=human epidermal growth factor receptor 2.
Results with DATROWAY
Please remember that the results you will see are from a clinical trial and each person’s experience may differ. Speak with your doctor about what you may expect on DATROWAY treatment.
Median progression-free survival results
A median is the middle number in a set of numbers. Median progression-free survival is the amount of time that half of the people enrolled in the trial were on treatment before their cancer started growing or spreading.
How long people lived on treatment without their cancer growing or spreading
At the time of evaluation, the median progression-free survival results were considered statistically significant. In a trial, results are considered statistically significant if they are unlikely to have occurred by chance alone, showing that the treatment likely had a real effect.
Median overall survival results
A median is the middle number in a set of numbers. Median overall survival is the amount of time that half of the people in the trial lived since starting treatment.
How long people lived on treatment without their cancer growing or spreading
Overall survival results were not statistically significant. In a trial, results are considered statistically significant if they are unlikely to have occurred by chance. Therefore, these results cannot be fully explained as an effect of the treatment alone.
Overall response rate (tumor shrinking) results
This is the percentage of people who have a partial or complete response to therapy. A complete response means the tumor could not be seen on imaging tests. A partial response means the tumor shrank by at least 30%.
How many people had their tumors shrink
Median duration of response (mDOR) is the length of time half of the people who responded to DATROWAY (partial or complete) continued to respond after the first response was seen. mDOR was about 6½ months with DATROWAY. mDOR was about 5½ months with chemotherapy.
Frequently asked questions
Even though the overall survival was not statistically significant, DATROWAY has been shown to significantly slow down the growth or spread of cancer. Ask your doctor about how treatment with DATROWAY may impact you given your specific history.
Traditional chemotherapy has been used to effectively treat people with metastatic breast cancer for over 20 years. Since chemotherapy is a common treatment given to this population of people, DATROWAY was studied against it.