By Stephen Nakrosis

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for JNJ-61186372 to treat certain patients with small cell lung cancer.

The company said the treatment was for "patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with epidermal growth factor receptor Exon 20 insertion mutations, whose disease has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy."

Janssen said the FDA's decision was supported by a Phase 1 study and that enrollment into the Part 2 dose expansion cohorts is ongoing.

-Write to Stephen Nakrosis at stephen.nakrosis@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

March 10, 2020 16:42 ET (20:42 GMT)

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