64Cu-DOTA-trastuzumab-PET imaging in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

Authors

Kenji Tamura

Kenji Tamura

Department of Breast and Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Tamura , Hiroaki Kurihara , Kan Yonemori , Kazuhiro Takahashi , Yasuhiro Wada , Koki Hasegawa , Fumiaki Koizumi , Hitoshi Tsuda , Makoto Kodaira , Mayu Yunokawa , Chikako Shimizu , Masashi Ando , Yasuyoshi Watanabe , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Organizations

Department of Breast and Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Nuclear Medicine Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science, Hyogo, Japan, Shien Lab, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Pathology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

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Other Foundation
Background: Targeting of HER2 with trastuzumab (T) is a well-established strategy in the metastatic and adjuvant setting in HER2 positive breast cancer (HER2-BC). Although HER2 status is routinely determined using immunohistochemistry or fluorescence in situ hybridization, technical problem can arise when lesions are poorly accessible. HER2 expression can vary during the course of the disease, and there can be discordance in HER2 expression across tumor lesion even in the same patients. Noninvasive HER2 imaging is crucial needed to solve these problems. Previous imaging using 111In or 89Zn- trastuzumab produced high radiation exposure to patients by their long half life (=67.9and 78.4h) and low resolution image. Half life of 64Cu is 12.7h. We performed a feasibility study of the 64Cu-1, 4, 7, 10- tetraazacylododecane-N,N',N",N"'-tetraacetic acid (DOTA)-T to perform PET imaging in patients with HER2-BC. Methods: Patients with HER2-BC received 150 MBq of 64Cu-DOTA-T and underwent PET scan 1, 24 and 48h after the injection. Six patients were evaluated internal dosimetry by collecting radioactivity data of blood and normal tissue in each time point from PET study, and radiation exposure by collecting clothes, linen and urine to test feasibility for outpatients. Results: Fifteen patients who received T therapy were enrolled in the “first-in-human” trial. All patients had no severe toxicity. Radiation excretion evaluating clothes, linen were under background level. Radiation exposure of 64Cu-DOTA-T was equivalent to that of conventional 18F-FDG-PET. Distribution of liver, kidney, spleen, and blood vessel was 2-8 SUV, and uptake in other normal tissue was low. At visual examination, in two patients brain metastases were clearly visualized by 64Cu-DOTA-T-PET, suggesting that there are disruptions of the blood-brain barrier at the site of the brain metastases. The sternum bone metastasis was well visualized and quantitatively monitored according to the response by T. Primary breast cancers, lymph node metastases and lung metastases could also be visualized at the lesion indentified by CT. Conclusions: 64Cu-DOTA-T-PET was feasible test even for outpatient, and provides specific and high resolution image in HER2 positive lesion.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2012 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Tumor Biology

Track

Tumor Biology

Sub Track

Molecular Diagnostics and Imaging

Clinical Trial Registration Number

UMIN000004170

Citation

J Clin Oncol 30, 2012 (suppl; abstr 10519)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2012.30.15_suppl.10519

Abstract #

10519

Poster Bd #

12

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