scholarly journals LAPATINIB-BASED THERAPY FOR WOMEN WITH ADVANCED/ METASTATIC HER2 POSITIVE BREAST CANCER

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-150
Author(s):  
J Zekri ◽  
M Mokhtar ◽  
S M Karim ◽  
T Darwish ◽  
M Al-Foheidi ◽  
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Background: Lapatinib alone or in combination with other agents, mostly capecitabine is used for patients with advanced/metastatic HER2 positive breast cancer (HER2+BC) after progression on trastuzumab based therapy. Here we report our experience with lapatinib based therapy in this setting. Material and Methods: 67 consecutive patients received lapatinib based therapy. 58 (86.6%) received lapatinib + capecitabine (LC), 7 (10.4%) with other agents and 2 (3.0%) as single agent lapatinib. Data was collected from patients’ records retrospectively. Results: Objective response to lapatinib based therapy in 64 evaluable patients was 64.0% in all patients and 64.0% in patients who received LC. Median progression free survival and overall survival were 10 and 27 months in all patients and 10 and 17 months in patients who received LC, respectively. 16 (24.0%) patients had dose delay > 1 week and/or dose reduction. Conclusion: Lapatinib based therapy is an effective treatment for women with advanced/metastatic HER2+BC after prior exposure to trastuzumab. It yields meaningful response rates, progression free and overall survival. Some patients require dose adjustments.

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e13012-e13012
Author(s):  
Jifeng Feng ◽  
Lili Zhang ◽  
Xiaohong Wu ◽  
Jun Zhou ◽  
Mingzhen Zhu ◽  
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e13012 Background: Pyrotinib is a newly-developed irreversible pan-ErbB receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor. The efficacy of pyrotinib in patients with different baseline characteristics in the actual clinical practice has been rarely reported. This study analyzed the efficacy and safety of pyrotinib in the real world. Methods: Patients with histologically confirmed advanced HER2 positive breast cancer were included in the analyses. All patients received pyrotinib-based therapy were given pyrotinib once a day in a 21-day cycle. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoints included adverse events (AE), objective response rate (ORR), disease control rate (DCR), and overall survival (OS). Results: A total of 132 patients (median age: 52 years [29-78]) were enrolled from February 2019 to March 2020. 94(71.21%) patients had visceral metastatic lesions and 20 (15.15%) had brain metastases. HR+, HR-, or unknown HR status for primary tumor accounted for 56.82%, 42.42%, 0.76%, respectively. 115(87.12%) patients were previously administered with trastuzumab. 96(72.73%) patients received pyrotinib-based therapy as a second or further line of treatment. 94(71.21%) patients initiated pyrotinib treatment at 400 mg. Treatment regimens were pyrotinib plus capecitabine (55.30%), pyrotinib combined with trastuzumab (18.18%), and pyrotinib monotherapy (8.33%), pyrotinib combined with endocrine therapy, radiotherapy or antiangiogenic drugs (3.79%). A total of 132 patients were included in PFS analysis. mPFS was 12.0 months (95%CI 8.1-18.8). mPFS for patients without primary trastuzumab-resistant breast cancer was 14.1 months (95%CI 8.7-23.3). Patients receiving pyrotinib-based therapy as their ≥3 lines treatment had lower mPFS than those receiving pyrotinib-based therapy as their < 3 lines treatment (8.8 vs. 15.1 months, P= 0.119). mPFS in patients receiving regimen with and without capecitabine were 15.1 months and 8.4 months, respectively ( P= 0.081). As of data cutoff, mOS has not yet been reached. Among the 65 patients available for efficacy evaluation, 1 (1.54%) patient achieved complete response (CR), 24 (36.92%) patients had partial response (PR), 30 (46.15%) patients achieved stable disease (SD), and 10 (15.38%) patients had progression disease (PD), resulting in an ORR of 38.46% and DCR of 84.62%. The most common AE was diarrhea (84.17%), but only 5 (4.17%) patients were reported grade ≥ 3 diarrhea which could be well controlled. Other AEs with an incidence higher than 20.00% were anemia (36.67%), leukopenia (25.83%), vomiting (25.00%), neutropenia (22.50%). No treatment-related death occurred. Conclusions: Pyrotinib demonstrated an encouraging efficacy and manageable safety in patients with advanced HER2+ breast cancer. More data would be analyzed and reported in the future. Clinical trial information: ChiCTR1900021819.


2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Matos ◽  
Branko Zakotnik ◽  
Cvetka Grasic Kuhar

Abstract Background. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive breast cancer is an entity with aggressive behaviour. One year of adjuvant trastuzumab significantly improves the disease free survival in the range of 40-50% and reduces the risk of dying from HER2 positive breast cancer by one third. Adjuvant treatment with trastuzumab became available in Slovenia in 2005 and the aim of this study is to explore, if the exceptional results reported in adjuvant clinical trials are achieved also in daily clinical practice. Patients and methods. An analysis of tumour and patient characteristics, type of treatment and outcome (relapse free and overall survival) of 313 patients (median age 52 years) treated at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana in years 2005-2009 was performed. Results. Median follow-up was 4.4 years. Sixty-one patients relapsed and 24 died. Three and four years relapse free survival was 84.2% and 80.8% and the overall survival was 94.4% and 92.5%, respectively. Independent prognostic factors for relapse were tumour grade (HR 2.10; 95% CI 1.07-4.14; p = 0.031) and nodal stage (HR 1.35; 1.16-1.56; p < 0.0001) and for the overall survival nodal stage only (HR 1.36; 1.05-1.78; p = 0.021). Conclusions. The outcome in patients with adjuvant trastuzumab in daily clinical practice, treated by medical oncologists, is comparable to results obtained in international adjuvant studies.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e13019-e13019
Author(s):  
Sasagu Kurozumi ◽  
Takamichi Yokoe ◽  
Kazuki Nozawa ◽  
Yukinori Ozaki ◽  
Tetsuyo Maeda ◽  
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e13019 Background: Since trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) was established as a standard treatment option, the treatment strategy of metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer has markedly changed. However, clinical evidence regarding the treatments beyond T-DM1 is insufficient. In this study, we attempted to describe real-world selection and efficacy of treatments following T-DM1 for metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. Methods: This multi-center retrospective cohort study was conducted in 17 hospitals in Japan. Consecutive patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who had received T-DM1 and started post-T-DM1 treatments between January 2014 and December 2018 were enrolled. Patients treated with investigational drugs were excluded. The primary endpoint was objective response rate (ORR) of post-T-DM1 treatments. Secondary endpoints included disease control rate (DCR), progression-free survival (PFS), time to treatment failure (TTF), and overall survival (OS). Results: In this study, 325 patients were eligible, of which 182 (56.0%) cases were estrogen receptor-positive and 61 (18.8%) had brain metastases. T-DM1 had been used as the first to 11th (median third) line treatment for metastatic disease. The types of post-T-DM1 treatment were as follows: 1) chemotherapy concomitant with trastuzumab and pertuzumab (n = 102; 31.4%), 2) chemotherapy concomitant with trastuzumab only (n = 78; 24.0%), 3) lapatinib with capecitabine (n = 63; 19.4%), and 4) others (n = 82; 25.2%). ORR of post-T-DM1 treatments was 22.8% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 18.1 to 28.0) and DCR was 66.6% (95% CI: 60.8 to 72.0), calculated with 290 eligible cases with the target lesion. Median PFS was 6.1 months (95%CI: 5.3 to 6.7), median TTF was 5.1 months (95%CI: 4.4 to 5.6), and median OS was 23.7 months (95%CI: 20.7 to 27.4). Conclusions: This real-world study showed that post-T-DM1 treatments had modest anti-tumor activity. Development of more effective treatments beyond T-DM1 is needed for metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. Clinical trial information: UMIN000037747 .


2007 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupert Bartsch ◽  
Andrea Rottenfusser ◽  
Catharina Wenzel ◽  
Karin Dieckmann ◽  
Ursula Pluschnig ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuanxu Luo ◽  
Xiaorong Zhong ◽  
Zhu Wang ◽  
Yu Wang ◽  
Yanping Wang ◽  
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Purpose: A nomogram is a reliable tool to generate individualized risk prediction by combining prognostic factors. We aimed to construct a nomogram for predicting the survival in patients with non-metastatic human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive breast cancer in a prospective cohort. Methods: We analyzed 1304 consecutive patients who were diagnosed with non-metastatic HER2 positive breast cancer between January 2008 and December 2016 in our institution. Independent prognostic factors were identified to build a nomogram using the COX proportional hazard regression model. The prediction of the nomogram was evaluated by concordance index (C-index), calibration and subgroup analysis. External validation was performed in a cohort of 6379 patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Results: Through the COX proportional hazard regression model, five independent prognostic factors were identified. The nomogram predicting overall survival achieved a C-index of 0.78 in the training cohort and 0.74 in the SEER cohort. The calibration plot displayed favorable accordance between the nomogram prediction and the actual observation for 3-year overall survival in both cohorts. The quartiles of the nomogram score classified patients into subgroups with distinct overall survival. Conclusion: We developed and validated a novel nomogram for predicting overall survival in patients with non-metastatic HER2 positive breast cancer, which presented a favorable discrimination ability. This model may assist clinical decision making and patient–clinician communication in clinical practice.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 945-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A. Freedman ◽  
Rebecca S. Gelman ◽  
Jeffrey S. Wefel ◽  
Michelle E. Melisko ◽  
Kenneth R. Hess ◽  
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Purpose Evidence-based treatments for metastatic, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–positive breast cancer in the CNS are limited. Neratinib is an irreversible inhibitor of erbB1, HER2, and erbB4, with promising activity in HER2-positive breast cancer; however, its activity in the CNS is unknown. We evaluated the efficacy of treatment with neratinib in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer brain metastases in a multicenter, phase II open-label trial. Patients and Methods Eligible patients were those with HER2-positive brain metastases (≥ 1 cm in longest dimension) who experienced progression in the CNS after one or more line of CNS-directed therapy, such as whole-brain radiotherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, and/or surgical resection. Patients received neratinib 240 mg orally once per day, and tumors were assessed every two cycles. The primary endpoint was composite CNS objective response rate (ORR), requiring all of the following: ≥50% reduction in volumetric sum of target CNS lesions and no progression of non-target lesions, new lesions, escalating corticosteroids, progressive neurologic signs/symptoms, or non-CNS progression—the threshold for success was five of 40 responders. Results Forty patients were enrolled between February 2012 and June 2013; 78% of patients had previous whole-brain radiotherapy. Three women achieved a partial response (CNS objective response rate, 8%; 95% CI, 2% to 22%). The median number of cycles received was two (range, one to seven cycles), with a median progression-free survival of 1.9 months. Five women received six or more cycles. The most common grade ≥ 3 event was diarrhea (occurring in 21% of patients taking prespecified loperamide prophylaxis and 28% of those without prophylaxis). Patients in the study experienced a decreased quality of life over time. Conclusion Although neratinib had low activity and did not meet our threshold for success, 12.5% of patients received six or more cycles. Studies combining neratinib with chemotherapy in patients with CNS disease are ongoing.


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