Comparison of the efficacy of trastuzumab emtansine between patients with metastatic human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancers previously treated with combination trastuzumab and pertuzumab and with trastuzumab only in Japanese population.

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Comparison of the efficacy of trastuzumab emtansine between patients with metastatic human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancers previously treated with combination trastuzumab and pertuzumab and with trastuzumab only in Japanese population.

Breast Cancer. 2019 Feb 08;:

Authors: Noda-Narita S, Shimomura A, Kawachi A, Sumiyoshi-Okuma H, Sudo K, Shimoi T, Noguchi E, Yonemori K, Shimizu C, Fujiwara Y, Tamura K

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) has been approved since 2013 for patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC) who had received trastuzumab (Tmab) and taxane. However, no clinical trial has evaluated the efficacy of T-DM1 in those who have previously received pertuzumab (Pmab). This study aimed to compare the efficacy of T-DM1 between patients who had received Tmab and Pmab and those who had received Tmab only in Japanese population.
METHODS: We identified all patients with HER2-positive MBC who received T-DM1 between April 1, 2014 and February 28, 2017 in our institution. The patients were divided into the Tmab group (i.e., those who received only Tmab before T-DM1 treatment) and the Tmab/Pmab group (i.e., those who received Tmab and Pmab before T-DM1 treatment), and progression-free survival (PFS) and best response were compared between the two groups.
RESULTS: A total of 42 patients were enrolled for outcome analysis. The median follow-up period was 4.8 months, and the median number of prior chemotherapy regimens for metastatic disease before T-DM1 was 1 (range 1-2) in the Tmab/Pmab group and 2 (range 0-6) in the Tmab group. The median PFS was 2.8 months in the Tmab/Pmab group (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.7-4.8 months) and 7.8 months in the Tmab group (95% CI 5.5-15.9 months) (p = 0.0030). The best response was lower in the Tmab/Pmab group (11.1% vs. 25.0%).
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with HER2-positive MBC who received Tmab and Pmab treatment before T-DM1 have fewer benefits from T-DM1.

PMID: 30737616 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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