Real-life experience of trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) in patients with heavily pretreated HER2 positive advanced breast cancer: A retrospective single institution study.

Authors

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Elham Vosoughi

University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA

Elham Vosoughi , Nellie Nafissi , Aditya Mahadevan , Seungshin Lee , Kritisha Parajuli , Nejina Rijal , Ritesh Parajuli , Rita S. Mehta

Organizations

University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, UC Irvine Health, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Orange, CA, Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal, Kathmandu Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA

Research Funding

No funding received
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Background: T-DXd is a HER2 antibody–drug conjugate. It improves patient outcomes and is FDA approved for the treatment of patients with Her-2 positive and Her-2 low metastatic breast cancer. However, the impact of T-DXd use in real life compared with the findings reported in clinical trials with strict inclusion criteria has rarely been assessed. We performed a real-world study to evaluate the outcomes of patients with advanced HER2+ and HER2-low expression breast cancer. Methods: We conducted a retrospective single institution study and collected the clinical and pathologic data of patients with metastatic breast cancer who were treated with T-DXd from 2019 to 2022. The primary end point, time to treatment failure (TTF) was defined as the interval from T-DXd initiation to discontinuation. We compared the TTF of T-DXd with previous lines of treatment and also report its safety and tolerability. Results: Thirty-one patients were included in this study, seventeen with HER2-low expression and fourteen with HER2 positive. Patients had received a mean of three prior lines of therapy (ranging from 1 to 13). 32.2% of patients had ≥ 5 lines of therapy prior to T-DXd. TTF was 104 days, 95% CI [58,162] in T-DXd compared with 151 days, 95% CI [119,217] in the previous line of therapy. 2 patients (6.4%) had treatment discontinuation due to adverse events (AEs) (1 patient due to grade 3 fatigue and 1 patient due to concern for ILD). 3 patients (9.6%) had treatment delay or dose reduction due to AEs. A total of 67.7% of patients (21/31) developed AEs on T-DXd. 4 (12.9%) had grade 3 or 4 AEs. Fatigue was the most common AE followed by nausea/vomiting and thrombocytopenia. A total of 17 patients had T-DXd discontinued-15 patients discontinued due to progression or death, 2 discontinued due to AEs. 9 out of 31 patients had brain metastasis. Amongst patients with brain metastases, 7 showed stable disease while on T-DXd (1 had previously progressed on tucatinib, trastuzumab, and capecitabine). In the subgroup analysis, in patients with HER2-low expression, TTF was 98 days 95% CI [41-153] with T-DXd compared with 192 days, 95% CI [84,363] in the previous line of therapy. 2 out of 14 patients developed grade 3 or 4 AEs. Fatigue was the most common AE. In HER2+ subgroups, TTF was 126 days, 95% CI [58,353] in T-DXd vs 125 days, 95% CI [106,217] in the previous line of therapy. 2 out of 17 patients developed grade 3 or 4 AEs. Conclusions: To the best of our knowledge this is the first real life retrospective study evaluating the efficacy and tolerability of T-DXd. Overall, T-DXd had acceptable efficacy and tolerable toxicity in heavily pretreated patients. T-DXd showed a good response rate in patients with active brain metastasis. Our findings are consistent with published data on T-Dxd but is limited by virtue of retrospective series.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Publication Only: Breast Cancer—Metastatic

Track

Breast Cancer

Sub Track

HER2-Positive

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr e13035)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.e13035

Abstract #

e13035

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