Roche Announces FDA Grants Genentech's Pertuzumab Priority Review for Previously Untreated HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

Genentech, a member of the Roche Group

, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company's Biologics License Application for pertuzumab and granted Priority Review. The proposed indication is pertuzumab in combination with Herceptin® (trastuzumab) and docetaxel chemotherapy for people with HER2-positive metastatic or locally recurrent, unresectable breast cancer, who have not received previous treatment or whose disease has relapsed after adjuvant therapy. The FDA confirmed the action date is June 8, 2012.