What is the success rate of Cabometyx (cabozantinib)?
Cabometyx (cabozantinib) is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor used to treat certain patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, hepatocellular (liver) cancer, differentiated thyroid cancer, or pancreatic and extra-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
It is a targeted chemotherapy drug that you take until your cancer starts to get worse - disease progression - or you can no longer tolerate the drug because of side effects or adverse reactions.
How successful Cabometyx is can be measured by how long patients take the treatment for, how long they survive for without their cancer getting worse (progression-free survival), how many months they remain alive for while taking the treatment and how many patients respond to the drug.
How effective is Cabometyx?
| Trial | Duration of treatment | Median progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS) and overall response rate (ORR) |
| METEOR - advanced renal cell carcinoma |
Cabometyx: 7.6 months (range 0.3 - 20.5) vs Everolimus (Afinitor): 4.4 months (range 0.21 - 18.9) |
PFS Cabometyx: 7.4 months (95% CI 5.6, 9.1) vs Everolimus: 3.8 months (95% CI 3.7, 5.4) OS Partial responses only Cabometyx: 17% (95% CI 13%, 22%) vs Everolimus: 3% (95% CI 2%, 6%) |
| CABOSUN - advance renal cell carcinoma |
Cabometyx: 6.5 months (range 0.2 - 28.7) vs Sunitinib (Sutent): 3.1 months (range 0.2 - 25.5) |
PFS Cabometyx: 8.6 months (95% CI 6.8, 14.0) vs Everolimus: 5.3 months (95% CI 3.0, 8.2) ORR |
| CHECKMATE-9ER - advanced renal cell carcinoma, first-line treatment | Cabometyx plus nivolumab (Opdivo): 14 months (range 0.2 - 27) |
PFS Cabometyx: 16.6 months (95% CI 12.5, 24.9) vs Sunitinib: 8.3 months (95% CI 7.0, 9.7) OS Complete and partial responses Cabometyx: 55.7% (95% CI 50.1, 61.2) vs Sunitinib: 27.1% (95% CI 22.4, 32.3) |
| CELESTIAL - advanced hepatocellular carcinoma |
Cabometyx: 3.8 months (range 0.1 - 37.3) vs Placeo: 2.0 months (range 0.0 - 27.2) |
PFS Cabometyx: 5.2 months (95% CI 4.0, 5.5) vs Placebo: 1.9 months (95% CI 1.9, 1.9) OS Partial responses only Cabometyx: 4% (95% CI2.3, 6.0) vs Placebo: 0.4% (95% CI 0.0, 2.3) |
| COSMIC-311 - radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer previously treated with VEGFR-targeted therapy |
PFS (updated analysis) Cabometyx: 11 months (95% CI 7.4, 13.8) vs Placebo: 1.9 months (95% CI 1.9, 3.7) ORR (updated analysis) |
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| CABINET - pancreatic and extrapancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET and epNET) |
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References
- Cabometyx Prescribing Information. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2025/208692s017lbl.pdf
- Chan, J. A., Geyer, S., Zemla, T., Knopp, M. V., Behr, S., Pulsipher, S., ... Meyerhardt, J. A. (2024). Phase 3 trial of cabozantinib to treat advanced neuroendocrine tumors. New England Journal of Medicine, 392(7), 653-665. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2403991
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How does Cabometyx work?
Cabometyx (cabozantinib) is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, which works by helping to stop the out-of-control growth that cancer cells display.
Carbometyx works by blocking the signals between cells that promote the growth of new blood vessels and encourage cells to divide and grow. In doing so, it decreases the ability of tumors to spread (metastasize) to other parts of the body and invade surrounding areas. Continue reading
What is the difference between Cabometyx and Cometriq?
Cabometyx and Cometriq are two brand name drugs that both contain the same active ingredient cabozantinib, but they are not interchangeable.
Cabometyx comes in the form of a tablet (20, 40 and 60 mg) and is used to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), advanced RCC as a first-line treatment in combination with nivolumab, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients who have previously been treated with sorafenib, certain types of differentiated thyroid cancer, and pancreatic or extra-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET and epNET).
Cometriq comes in the form of a capsule (20 and 80 mg) and is used to treat progressive metastatic medullary thyroid cancer. Continue reading
What type of cancer is Tecentriq used to treat?
Tecentriq (atezolizumab) is an immune checkpoint inhibitor used to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), small cell lung cancer (SCLC), heptatocellular (liver) carcinoma (HCC), melanoma (skin cancer), and alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS), a rare soft tissue tumor. Continue reading
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