Date: 2014-03-17
Type of information:
phase: 3
Announcement: results
Company: Medivir (Sweden)
Product: simeprevir (TMC435)
Action
mechanism: once-daily protease inhibitor drug
Disease: treatment-experienced adult patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) and compensated liver disease
Therapeutic area: Infectious diseases
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Trial details: The multicenter phase III clinical study of treatment-experienced genotype 1 HCV patients partial- and null-responder patients to at least one previous course of PegIFN/RBV therapy called the ATTAIN study is a randomized, double-blind, two-arm study. In the trial, 771 patients were randomized (1:1) to treatment with either 150 mg of simeprevir once daily plus PegIFN/RBV or 750 mg of telaprevir three times per day plus PegIFN/RBV for 12 weeks, followed by 36 weeks of PegIFN/RBV alone.
Latest
news: * On March 17, 2014, Medivir has announced that new phase III data for the once-daily protease inhibitor simeprevir have been presented at the Conference of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) in Brisbane, Australia. The phase III ATTAIN study in treatment-experienced adult patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) and compensated liver disease achieved its primary efficacy endpoint by demonstrating non-inferiority of simeprevir compared to telaprevir when both are given in combination with PegIFN/RBV. Simeprevir demonstrated superior safety profile including fewer adverse events (AEs), fewer serious adverse events (SAEs) and less anemia versus telaprevir.Results from ATTAIN show that simeprevir achieved its primary endpoint of non-inferiority to telaprevir in treatment-experienced HCV patients and demonstrated a superior safety profile. In the study, 54 percent of chronic HCV genotype 1 prior partial- and null-responder patients treated with simeprevir administered once daily in combination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin achieved the primary endpoint of sustained virologic response 12 weeks after end of treatment (SVR12) compared to 55 percent of patients treated with telaprevir administered three-times daily plus pegylated interferon and ribavirin.Among prior null-responder patients, 44 percent of patients in the simeprevir arm achieved SVR12 versus 46 percent of patients in the telaprevir arm. Among prior partial-responder patients, 70 percent of patients in the simeprevir arm achieved SVR12 versus 69 percent of patients in the telaprevir arm.SVR12 rates across patient subgroups were generally similar between the simeprevir and telaprevir arms, including among patients with the HCV genotype 1a Q80K mutation. Twenty-seven percent of patients with the HCV Q80K mutation achieved SVR12 in the simeprevir arm versus 26 percent in the telaprevir arm. The study also found that 60 percent of patients with the IL28B CC genotype, 55 percent of CT patients and 48 percent of TT patients in the simeprevir arm achieved SVR12, versus 67, 57 and 50 percent of patients in the telaprevir arm, respectively.
