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Innovent and Lilly Release Phase 3 Results of TYVYT® (Sintilimab Injection) as a Second-Line Treatment for Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer at AACR Annual Meeting 2021

Published: 2021-04-13 00:00:00 ET
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SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. ("Innovent", HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high-quality medicines for the treatment of cancer, metabolic, autoimmune and other major diseases, announced with Eli Lilly and Company ("Lilly", NYSE: LLY) that the results of the Phase 3 ORIENT-3 study were released today in an oral presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2021.

ORIENT-3 is a randomized, open-label, Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating TYVYT® (sintilimab injection) versus docetaxel as a second-line treatment for advanced or metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (sqNSCLC). A total of 290 patients whose cancer had progressed following first-line treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy were enrolled. Based on the primary analysis population (280 patients, excluding patients on the docetaxel arm who received immunotherapy prior to disease progression), TYVYT® (sintilimab injection) demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in overall survival (OS) compared to docetaxel, meeting the pre-specified primary endpoint. The median OS was 11.79 months for patients on the TYVYT® (sintilimab injection) arm and 8.25 months for those on the docetaxel arm (HR=0.74, 95% CI: 0.56-0.96, P=0.02489). The median progression-free survival (PFS) as assessed by investigators was 4.30 months versus 2.79 months (HR=0.52, 95% CI: 0.39-0.68, P