An experimental breast cancer treatment co-developed by Pfizer and Arvinas significantly improved the time some patients lived without the disease worsening, but failed to achieve statistically significant results in others in a late-stage study.

The drug in question, called vepdegestrant, is an oral PROteolysis TArgeting Chimera (PROTAC) ER degrader. The phase 3 study assessed vepdegestrant against AstraZeneca’s hormone med Faslodex in 624 patients with ER+/HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer who had already tried CDK 4/6 inhibitors and endocrine therapy.

Pharma giant Pfizer and Arvinas’s human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative breast cancer therapy, vepdegestrant, has seen mixed results after it was only able to extend progression-free survival (PFS) in certain patients in a Phase III trial.