Horizon Therapeutics plc announced new long-term follow-up data from the Phase 2 clinical trial of TEPEZZA® (teprotumumab-trbw), which showed a sustained response up to one year following completion of treatment for Thyroid Eye Disease (TED). TEPEZZA is marketed as the first and only medicine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of TED – a serious, progressive and vision-threatening rare autoimmune disease.
In the Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials, TEPEZZA demonstrated clinically significant improvements in several key indicators of TED, including proptosis (eye bulging), diplopia (double vision) and clinical activity score (CAS), at Week 24. To understand the long-term benefits of TEPEZZA, patients from the Phase 2 clinical trial were followed for 51 weeks (study Week 72) after their last infusion of TEPEZZA. Study findings only include patients who had Week 72 data (n=37). The study assessed the percent of patients who received TEPEZZA and had any improvement in proptosis, diplopia or CAS, as well as the percent with disease inactivation, as measured by a CAS of 0 or 1 point at the end of the study. Four patients received non-TEPEZZA therapy (corticosteroids and/or orbital decompression surgery) during this follow-up period and were counted as improved in the study.
Key findings include the following:
- All patients with Week 72 data (37/37) reported some improvement in at least one of the study outcomes from baseline.
- 97 percent (36/37) had an improvement in CAS (decrease of at least 1 point).
- 86 percent (31/36) had any decrease in proptosis. One patient chose elective TED surgery at Week 70 and did not have proptosis measurements at Week 72.
- Of patients with baseline diplopia, 70 percent (23/33) had an improvement of at least one grade.
- 70 percent (26/37) had disease inactivation (CAS of 0 or 1 point).
“These findings indicate this medication can provide relief at least a year after the last dose, including improvements in proptosis and diplopia, which are especially difficult symptoms to manage,” said Roger A. Dailey, M.D., F.A.C.S., trial investigator and professor of ophthalmology at Oregon Health & Science University’s Casey Eye Institute.
This study adds to the body of evidence supporting the long-term effects of TEPEZZA, including data recently announced from the Phase 3 OPTIC 48-week off-treatment follow-up period. In that analysis, the majority of TEPEZZA patients who were proptosis responders at Week 24 in OPTIC maintained their response at Week 72 (19/34; 56 percent) without receiving additional TED treatment. Of the 15 patients who did not qualify as maintaining a proptosis response, eight patients were at least 2 mm better than baseline at the time of their last assessment in the OPTIC 48-week off-treatment follow-up period. There were no new safety concerns in the OPTIC 48-week off-treatment follow-up period. Additional data from the OPTIC trial will be presented at future medical congresses.
“We continue to evaluate existing and new data from our clinical development program and are pleased with the continuing evidence supporting potential for sustained benefit,” said Elizabeth H.Z. Thompson, Ph.D., group vice president, development and external search, research and development, Horizon. “For a patient population who has had no options aside from difficult and complicated surgeries, the potential for lasting benefit can really bring hope to patients.”
Full news release: ir.horizontherapeutics.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tepezzar-teprotumumab-trbw-data-phase-2-clinical-trial-evaluate
Source: Horizon Therapeutics