Regulatory approval

Published by the Food and Drug Administration.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to lapatinib in combination with capecitabine for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose tumors overexpress human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2) and who have received prior therapy, including an anthracycline, a taxane, a trastuzumab.

This is written in the approval document as:

TYKERB is a kinase inhibitor indicated in combination with capecitabine for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose tumors overexpress human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and who have received prior therapy, including an anthracycline, a taxane, and trastuzumab. Limitations of Use: Patients should have disease progression on trastuzumab prior to initiation of treatment with TYKERB in combination with capecitabine. TYKERB in combination with an aromatase inhibitor has not been compared to a trastuzumab-containing chemotherapy regimen for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

Citation

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Tykerb (lapatinib) [package insert]. U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2022/022059s031lbl.pdf. Revised March 2022. Accessed October 30, 2024.

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Type	Biomarker(s)	Cancer type	Therapy(ies)
Sensitivity (+)	HER2-positive	Invasive Breast Carcinoma	Capecitabine, Lapatinib