Association between treatment duration and overall survival in early-stage HER2+ breast cancer patients receiving extended adjuvant therapy with neratinib in the ExteNET trial.

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 540-540
Author(s):  
Beverly Moy ◽  
Masato Takahashi ◽  
Shoichiro Ohtani ◽  
Ewa Chmielowska ◽  
Naohito Yamamoto ◽  
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540 Background: Completion of planned treatment has been shown to improve clinical outcomes. In the ExteNET trial (NCT00878709), where diarrhea prophylaxis was not mandated, 17% of patients (pts) discontinued neratinib early due to diarrhea. This compares with 3.3% of pts from the CONTROL trial (NCT02400476) who used a neratinib dose-escalation strategy. Prior analyses have shown improved invasive disease-free survival (iDFS) in pts who completed planned duration of neratinib therapy in ExteNET (Table). Here we assess outcomes, including overall survival (OS), for pts who completed planned therapy in 3 groups from ExteNET: intent-to-treat (ITT) population; pts with hormone receptor-positive (HR+) disease who initiated neratinib within 1y after prior trastuzumab (HR+/≤1y, the population neratinib is approved for in the EU); and HR+/≤1y with residual disease post-neoadjuvant therapy (no pathologic complete response [pCR]). Methods: Pts with early-stage HER2+ breast cancer received oral neratinib 240 mg/d or placebo after trastuzumab-based (neo)adjuvant therapy. Pts who completed neratinib therapy (defined as ≥11m or cessation of neratinib if recurrence occurred prior to 11m) were compared with placebo (all randomized pts). iDFS and OS were analyzed using Kaplan-Meier methods; hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using Cox proportional-hazards models. Data cutoff: July 2019. Results: There were 2840 pts in the ITT population. The table shows iDFS and OS in the overall population and in pts who completed planned duration of neratinib therapy. Completion of planned neratinib was associated with improvements in iDFS and OS in all groups evaluated. Conclusions: These descriptive findings suggest that pts who receive the recommended duration of treatment of 1y with neratinib may have improved outcomes. Clinical trial information: NCT00878709. [Table: see text]

Author(s):  
Beata Jagielska ◽  
Andrzej Czubek ◽  
Konrad Talasiewicz ◽  
Adam Twarowski ◽  
Piotr Rutkowski ◽  
...  

Abstract: In patients suffering from breast cancer, adjuvant radiation, chemotherapy, or immunotherapy, which immediately follow the surgery as the first line therapy, greatly improve overall (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). Various regimens of adjuvant therapy for these patients have been tested contingent upon the clinical staging. Inclusion of adjuvant immunotherapy is particularly promising.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. TPS597-TPS597
Author(s):  
In Hae Park ◽  
Gun Min Kim ◽  
Jee Hyun Kim ◽  
Hanjo Kim ◽  
Kyong Hwa Park ◽  
...  

TPS597 Background: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), lack of ER, PR and HER2 expression, is known to have aggressive clinical features such as early recurrence, drug resistance, and frequent distant metastasis at the diagnosis. The most effective chemotherapy combinations used for early TNBC include anthracycline, taxanes, and/or platinum agents. Achieving a pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) provides important prognostic information and is considered as a surrogate endpoint in many clinical trials especially with TNBC. Patients with residual invasive disease after NAC have a high risk for early relapse and worse prognosis compared to those with pCR. Therefore, patients who did not get pCR could be better candidates for additional adjuvant treatment because their risk of recurrence would be higher than those with pCR. The CREATE-X (capecitabine for residual cancer as adjuvant therapy) trial howed that adjuvant capecitabine treatment improved 5-yr rate of disease free survival in TNBC subtype. A recent study indicated that immunosuppressive microenvironment had developed even in early stage of TNBC with increased T cells with a high exhaustion signature which are targets of immune modulating agents. Therefore, earlier cooperation of immune modulating drugs would be beneficial by generating a long-lasting anti-tumor immune response to micrometastatic disease, thus preventing disease relapse or recurrence. Methods: This study is a phase II, multicenter, randomized open label trial of atezolizumab (anti-PD-L1 antibody) and capecitabine compared with capecitabine in patients with TNBC who had residual disease after NAC. 284 patients will be enrolled from 15 sites in Korea with a primary objective to access the 5-yr invasive disease-free survival (IDFS) rate. Secondary objectives include 5-yr IDFS rate in PD-L1 positive population, distant relapse free survival (DRFS), overall survival (OS), and safety. Major inclusion and exclusion criteria are followings; 1) histologically confirmed TNBC, 2) received anthracycline and taxane based NAC followed by complete breast surgery, 3) residual disease after NAC must be ≥1cm in the greatest dimension, and/or have macroscopically positive lymph nodes. The study is open with 13 patients enrolled at the time of submission. Clinical trial information: NCT03756298 .


Author(s):  
Danielle File ◽  
Giuseppe Curigliano ◽  
Lisa A. Carey

Untreated, HER2+ disease is the most aggressive breast cancer phenotype; however, the development of multiple highly effective HER2-targeting drugs has transformed treatment and survival. These drugs include the anti-HER2 monoclonal antibodies trastuzumab and pertuzumab; small molecule inhibitors lapatinib, neratinib, and tucatinib; and antibody-drug conjugates trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) and now trastuzumab deroxtecan. More complex regimens using these drugs continue to improve outcomes, but the incremental benefits of these advances are often modest. Improved outcomes came from the addition of HER2-targeted therapies to conventional chemotherapy, beginning with trastuzumab, then pertuzumab added to trastuzumab, or with neratinib given for the year after trastuzumab. Neoadjuvant, or preoperative, administration of chemotherapy plus HER2-targeting allows surgical deescalation and tailoring treatment by pathologic complete response (pCR) to therapy. Patients with pCR after conventional therapy have excellent outcomes; what we now know is that the poorer outcomes associated with residual disease can be ameliorated with adjuvant T-DM1. However, as we have developed more complex, effective, and expensive therapy to maximize outcomes, it is also true that we are overtreating many patients. In stage I HER2+ breast cancer, there are excellent outcomes with paclitaxel plus trastuzumab or T-DM1 alone. Higher clinical stage HER2+ disease is still treated aggressively, although intrinsic subtype or activated immune tumor microenvironment may identify those with augmented treatment response or better outcome. It is likely that future strategies to escalate and de-escalate treatment with less chemotherapy, fewer anti-HER2 drugs, or shorter duration will depend upon integrated clinical and genomic modeling.


2021 ◽  
pp. 172460082110111
Author(s):  
Erika Korobeinikova ◽  
Rasa Ugenskiene ◽  
Ruta Insodaite ◽  
Viktoras Rudzianskas ◽  
Jurgita Gudaitiene ◽  
...  

Background: Genetic variations in oxidative stress-related genes may alter the coded protein level and impact the pathogenesis of breast cancer. Methods: The current study investigated the associations of functional single nucleotide polymorphisms in the NFE2L2, HMOX1, P21, TXNRD2, and ATF3 genes with the early-stage breast cancer clinicopathological characteristics and disease-free survival, metastasis-free survival, and overall survival. A total of 202 Eastern European (Lithuanian) women with primary I–II stage breast cancer were involved. Genotyping of the single nucleotide polymorphisms was performed using TaqMan single nucleotide polymorphisms genotyping assays. Results: The CA+AA genotypes of P21 rs1801270 were significantly less frequent in patients with lymph node metastasis and larger tumor size ( P=0.041 and P=0.022, respectively). The TT genotype in ATF3 rs3125289 had significantly lower risk of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) negative, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive status ( P=0.023, P=0.046, and P=0.040, respectively). In both, univariate and multivariate Cox analysis, TXNRD2 rs1139793 GG genotype vs. GA+AA was a negative prognostic factor for disease-free survival (multivariate hazard ratio (HR) 2.248; P=0.025) and overall survival (multivariate HR 2.248; P=0.029). The ATF3 rs11119982 CC genotype in the genotype model was a negative prognostic factor for disease-free survival (multivariate HR 5.878; P=0.006), metastasis-free survival (multivariate HR 4.759; P=0.018), and overall survival (multivariate HR 3.280; P=0.048). Conclusion: Our findings suggest that P21 rs1801270 is associated with lymph node metastasis and larger tumor size, and ATF3 rs3125289 is associated with ER, PR, and HER2 status. Two potential, novel, early-stage breast cancer survival biomarkers, TXNRD2 rs1139793 and ATF3 rs11119982, were detected. Further investigations are needed to confirm the results of the current study.


2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (25) ◽  
pp. 4072-4077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Litton ◽  
Ana M. Gonzalez-Angulo ◽  
Carla L. Warneke ◽  
Aman U. Buzdar ◽  
Shu-Wan Kau ◽  
...  

Purpose To understand the mechanism through which obesity in breast cancer patients is associated with poorer outcome, we evaluated body mass index (BMI) and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC) in women with operable breast cancer. Patients and Methods From May 1990 to July 2004, 1,169 patients were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and received NC before surgery. Patients were categorized as obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2), overweight (BMI of 25 to < 30 kg/m2), or normal/underweight (BMI < 25 kg/m2). Logistic regression was used to examine associations between BMI and pathologic complete response (pCR). Breast cancer–specific, progression-free, and overall survival times were examined using the Kaplan-Meier method and Cox proportional hazards regression analysis. All statistical tests were two-sided. Results Median age was 50 years; 30% of patients were obese, 32% were overweight, and 38% were normal or underweight. In multivariate analysis, there was no significant difference in pCR for obese compared with normal weight patients (odds ratio [OR] = 0.78; 95% CI, 0.49 to 1.26). Overweight and the combination of overweight and obese patients were significantly less likely to have a pCR (OR = 0.59; 95% CI, 0.37 to 0.95; and OR = 0.67; 95% CI, 0.45 to 0.99, respectively). Obese patients were more likely to have hormone-negative tumors (P < .01), stage III tumors (P < .01), and worse overall survival (P = .006) at a median follow-up time of 4.1 years. Conclusion Higher BMI was associated with worse pCR to NC. In addition, its association with worse overall survival suggests that greater attention should be focused on this risk factor to optimize the care of breast cancer patients.


2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Guillermo Peralta-Castillo ◽  
Antonio Maffuz-Aziz ◽  
Mariana Sierra-Murguía ◽  
Sergio Rodriguez-Cuevas

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 1380-1387 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Lindley ◽  
S Vasa ◽  
W T Sawyer ◽  
E P Winer

PURPOSE To evaluate the quality of life (QOL) of breast cancer patients who survived 2 to 5 years following initiation of adjuvant cytotoxic and/or hormonal therapy and to characterize relationships between QOL and patient physical symptoms, sexual function, and preferences regarding adjuvant treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS Eighty-six patients who had completed systemic adjuvant therapy for early-stage breast cancer between 1988 and 1991 were surveyed by written questionnaire and telephone interview. Sociodemographic information was obtained for each patient, and patients were asked to complete the Functional Living Index-Cancer (FLIC), the Symptom Distress Scale (SDS), the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Short Form 36 (SF-36), a series of questions regarding sexual function, and a survey about preferences for adjuvant therapy in relation to possible benefit. RESULTS The mean FLIC score among all patients was 138.3 (+/- 12.2), which suggests a high level of QOL. The reported frequency of moderate to severe symptoms was generally low (ie, < 15%), with fatigue (31.4%), insomnia (23.3%), and local numbness at the site of surgery (22.1%) occurring with greatest frequency. Patients reported a wide range of sexual difficulties. Preference assessment showed that more than 65% of patients were willing to undergo 6 months of chemotherapy for a 5% increase in likelihood of cancer cure. CONCLUSION Self-rated QOL in breast cancer patients 2 to 5 years following adjuvant therapy was generally favorable. Less than one third of patients reported moderate to severe symptoms. Selected aspects of sexual function appeared to be compromised. The majority of patients indicated a willingness to accept 6 months of chemotherapy for small to modest potential benefit.


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