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Hernexeos (zongertinib)

What FDA's own documents say about Hernexeos: what it is approved for, the trials FDA reviewed, the results it reported and the risks on the label.

Sponsor
Boehringer Ingelheim
Application
NDA 219042
First approved
August 8, 2025
Status
Accelerated approval, converted to traditional approval
Read from
17 FDA documents, 663 pages

What it is approved for

“HERNEXEOS is a kinase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have HER2 (ERBB2) tyrosine kinase domain activating mutations, as detected by an FDA-authorized test.”

Prescribing information, supplement 006 · PDF p. 1 · fda.gov ↗

Trials FDA reviewed

TrialClinicalTrials.govPhaseMentionsDocuments
LUNG-11479-0001NCT04886804121910 of 17
Study 1479not given1644 of 17
SAF-3not given1061 of 17
SAF-1not given391 of 17
LUNG-2not given236 of 17
SAF-2not given141 of 17

Mentions: how many sentences across the FDA documents name the trial. NCT ids are read from the documents or, where they give none, matched on ClinicalTrials.gov by the trial's name or protocol code.

Results FDA reported

Sentences from FDA's reviews that give an endpoint's p-value, effect or confidence interval, those reporting a treatment effect first.

ORR

“Statistical significance was achieved with both doses for the test of ORR against the fixed benchmark of 30% (120 mg QD: confirmed ORR = 66.7%; 97.5% CI 53.8, 77.5; 95% CI 55.4, 76.3; p<0.0001; 240 mg QD: confirmed ORR = 78.9%; 97.5% CI 64.8, 88.4; 95% CI 66.7, 87.5; p<0.0001).”

Multi-disciplinary Review · PDF p. 148 · fda.gov ↗

66.7%97.5%95%p<0.000178.9%30%

ORR

“Statistical significance was achieved in the first step of hierarchical testing of ORR against the fixed benchmark of 25% (confirmed ORR: 41.9%, 95% CI 26.4, 59.2, 1-sided p = 0.0147), and in the second step of statistical testing (confirmed ORR in patients with mutations in exon 20 of HER2:”

Multi-disciplinary Review · PDF p. 150 · fda.gov ↗

41.9%95%p = 0.014725%

Safety

Most common adverse reactions

“• Most common adverse reactions (>= 20%) are diarrhea, rash, hepatotoxicity, fatigue, nausea, musculoskeletal pain, and upper respiratory tract infection.”

Prescribing information, supplement 006 · PDF p. 1 · fda.gov ↗

Adverse events the documents discuss most

Dosing on the label

“The recommended dosage of HERNEXEOS is based on body weight:”

Prescribing information, supplement 006 · PDF p. 2 · fda.gov ↗

FDA documents read

DocumentDatePagesCopysha256
Prescribing information, original approval219042s000lbl.pdfAugust 11, 20251853e35491e7c8
Approval letter219042Orig1s000ltr.pdfAugust 12, 202578f428c214b67
Administrative Correspondence219042Orig1s000AdminCorres.pdfSeptember 9, 202535e2215b9e2b72
Approval Letter219042Orig1s000Approv.pdfSeptember 9, 202510a13fb67b6c14
Chemistry Review219042Orig1s000ChemR.pdfSeptember 9, 202543ec26ba6bf88c
Prescribing Information (Label)219042Orig1s000Lbl.pdfSeptember 9, 20252375475cb08a4d
Multi-disciplinary Review219042Orig1s000MultidisciplineR.pdfSeptember 9, 2025367b2c0ff70ba1a
Proprietary Name Review219042Orig1s000NameR.pdfSeptember 9, 202517e2f8b199fcea
Officer/Employee List219042Orig1s000OEList.pdfSeptember 9, 202524913376ed154
Other Reviews219042Orig1s000OtherR.pdfSeptember 9, 202557ac08dfedd83a
Risk Assessment / REMS Review219042Orig1s000RiskR.pdfSeptember 9, 2025124406fdb50abe
Prescribing information, supplement 001219042s001lbl.pdfMarch 2, 2026198dd109d88c87
Approval letter, supplement 001219042Orig1s001ltr.pdfMarch 2, 20267ec54f07c2f2c
Prescribing information, supplement 005219042s005lbl.pdfAugust 4, 202619eeff6bc6e108
Prescribing information, supplement 006219042s006lbl.pdfAugust 4, 202619eb5cd5db7494
Approval letter, supplement 005219042Orig1s005ltr.pdfAugust 4, 202641d327090efa9
Approval letter, supplement 006219042Orig1s006ltr.pdfAugust 4, 2026460a9b7d18d84

Checked against FDA's copies on September 30, 2026. The sha256 is the fingerprint of the file that was read: download it from fda.gov and compare. Quotes come from the text of each file as read; pages FDA stored as images were read by OCR and are marked.

Generated automatically (auto): the trials, names and dates are drafted from the documents by rules, with no language model; see the method.

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