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ArticleCancers2025

Population-Adjusted Indirect Treatment Comparisons of Repotrectinib Among Patients with

Jürgen Wolf, Sarah Goring, Adam Lee, Byoung Chul Cho, Alexander Drilon, Yong Yuan, Dieter Ayers, Greta Lozano-Ortega, Ellen E Korol, Sarah G Korpach and 4 more

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Article in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Real-World Treatment Patterns and Survival in Patients withCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Jürgen WolfCenter for Integrated Oncology, University Hospital of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
Sarah GoringBroadstreet HEOR, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8522-9354
Adam LeeBristol Myers Squibb, Uxbridge UB8 1DH, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8834-1296
Byoung Chul ChoYonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea.
Alexander DrilonMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Yong YuanBristol Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA.
Dieter AyersBroadstreet HEOR, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L8, Canada.
Greta Lozano-OrtegaBroadstreet HEOR, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5378-0544
Ellen E KorolBroadstreet HEOR, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L8, Canada.
Sarah G KorpachBroadstreet HEOR, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L8, Canada.
Madeleine CrabtreeBroadstreet HEOR, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L8, Canada.
Lavanya HuriaBroadstreet HEOR, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7835-0372
Christophe Y CalvetBristol Myers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA.
D Ross CamidgeUniversity of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Bristol-Myers Squibb (United States) NANCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHead-to-head evidence comparing repotrectinib against other approved ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) is not currently available. The objective of this study was to indirectly compare progression-free survival (PFS), the objective response rate (ORR), and the duration of response (DoR) for repotrectinib vs. crizotinib and vs. entrectinib in patients with TKI-naïve

methodsUsing evidence from a systematic literature review, unanchored matching-adjusted indirect comparisons (MAICs) were used to estimate population-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for PFS and DoR and odds ratios (ORs) for ORR for repotrectinib vs. crizotinib and vs. entrectinib among patients with TKI-naïve aNSCLC. The MAICs were adjusted for imbalances in baseline patient characteristics that were pre-specified as being prognostic or predictive of treatment effects. Weighted Cox (for PFS and DoR) and logistic (for ORR) regression models were fit. Supplementary analyses (SAs) explored the impact of missing data and modeling assumptions on effect estimates.

resultsThe evidence base was formed by TRIDENT-1 EXP-1 (repotrectinib; N = 71), a pooled set of five trials involving crizotinib (N = 273), and the pooled ALKA-372-001/STARTRK-1 and -2 trials (entrectinib; N = 168). After population adjustment, repotrectinib was associated with statistically significant improvements in PFS relative to crizotinib (HR = 0.44; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.29, 0.67) and entrectinib (HR = 0.57; 95% CI: 0.36, 0.91). Differences in ORR and DoR were not statistically significant but numerically favored repotrectinib. SAs were consistent with the main analyses across all comparisons.

conclusionsThe analysis demonstrated the strong benefits of repotrectinib in PFS, which was robust across different SAs and supported by numerically favorable results for DoR (where available) and ORR. These results, alongside the published TRIDENT-1 clinical data, further support repotrectinib as a potential new standard of care for TKI-naïve patients with

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crizotinibefficacyentrectiniblung cancerpopulation-adjusted indirect comparisonsrepotrectinibROS1 fusion-positive

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PMID40075596
PMCPMC11899369

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