Impact of the line of treatment on progression-free survival in patients treated with T-DM1 for metastatic breast cancer.
(2021) BMC Cancer — Vol. 21, n° 1, p. 1204 [1-8] (2021)
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- (en) BACKGROUND: Trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) is indicated as second-line treatment for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive metastatic or unresectable locally advanced breast cancer, after progression on trastuzumab and a taxane-based chemotherapy. We wished to determine if the line of treatment in which T-DM1 is administered has an impact on progression-free survival (PFS) and in particular, if prior treatment with capecitabine/lapatinib or pertuzumab modifies PFS of further treatment with T-DM1. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We performed a multicenter retrospective study in 3 Belgian institutions. We evaluated PFS with T-DM1 in patients treated for HER2 positive metastatic or locally advanced unresectable breast cancer between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2016. RESULTS: We included 51 patients. The median PFS was 9.01 months. The line of treatment in which T-DM1 (1st line, 2nd line, 3rd line or 4+ lines) was administered had no influence on PFS (hazard ratio 0.979, CI95: 0.835-1.143). There was no significant difference in PFS whether or not patients had received prior treatment with capecitabine/lapatinib (9.17 vs 5.56 months, p-value 0.875). But, patients who received pertuzumab before T-DM1 tended to exhibit a shorter PFS (3.55 months for T-DM1 after pertuzumab vs 9.50 months for T-DM1 without pretreatment with pertuzumab), even if this difference was not statistically significant (p-value 0.144). CONCLUSION: Unlike with conventional chemotherapy, the line of treatment in which T-DM1 is administered does not influence PFS in our cohort of patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer.
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Migeotte, A., Dufour, V., van Maanen, A., Berlière, M., Canon, J.-L., Taylor, D., & Duhoux, F. (2021). Impact of the line of treatment on progression-free survival in patients treated with T-DM1 for metastatic breast cancer. BMC Cancer, 21(1), 1204 [1-8]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08950-x (Original work published 2021)