📍High rate of gBRCA mut in TNBC (10-20%)
📍BRCA mut carriers ➡️ lower age at diagnosis
📍PARPi act through synthetic lethality: ⬆️🧬 ss breaks converted to irreparable ds breaks in BRCA1/2-defective cells
✨2017, OlympiAD✨
1st phase III trial to demonstrate 👍🏽 of PARPi Olaparib vs treatment of physician’s choice (TPC) in patients with gBRCAm & HER2-negative metastatic BrCa previously treated with Taxanes and Anthracyclines.
Parallel ph III trial shows significant efficacy of Talazoparib monotherapy vs TPS in similar population (patients with gBRCAm & HER2-negative metastatic BrCa previously treated with Taxanes or Anthracyclines)
📌No sig OS benefit found in both trials
✨OlympiA: mOS Olaparib 19.3 mo; HR Olaparib vs TPC: 0.90 (95% CI 0.66–1.23; P = 0.513)
✨EMBRACA: mOS Talazoparib 19.3 mo; HR (OS) Talazo vs TPC: 0.848 (95% CI 0.670-1.073; P= 0.17)
Recurrence timing after adjuvant Olaparib:
👉🏽long TFI ➡️ re-treatment with PARPi may be considered (Olaparib or Talazoparib)
👉🏽if recurrence ON therapy or WITHIN 1 YEAR from adjuvant Olaparib➡️new tx
In ten days, the presentation of DB-04 may redefine the way we classify and treat breast cancer.
Here’s ten HER2-low facts you need to know before attending the ASCO Plenary Session:
1/10 About half of all BCs have HER2-low expression, defined as HER2 IHC 1+ or 2+/ISH-.
The rate of HER2-low tumors depends however on the expression of ER:
- TNBC: 40% HER2-low
- Moderate ER-exp: 45-55% are HER2-low
- Highly ER-exp: >60% are HER2-low
2/10 HER2-low expression is not associated with major biologic differences (vs. HER2-0). Most HR+ breast tumors are luminal and most TNBCs are basal-like at PAM50, regardless of HER2-low expression
A significant fraction of patients with HER2+ MBC achieve long lasting responses to HER2-blockade, with no evidence of disease for many years after Tx start
Are these patients cured? Can we increase this fraction?
Several aspects are associated w/ a long-lasting response to HER2-blockade
Important clinical features are de-novo presentation, low burden of dz & achievement of CR. Highly HER2+, immune inflamed tumors w/ no detrimental gene muts are more likely to achieve long responses
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Recently emerging drugs and tools may further expand the rate of long-term responders
T-DXd, achieved 16% CR in DB03, and is currently being tested in 1L (DB09). Integration with IO, advancements in ablative treatments & ctDNA assessment also promise to help in this sense
In questi giorni stiamo assistendo all’approvazione dei primi vaccini per il #COVID19.
Tuttavia, si parla meno di un’altro grande traguardo scientifico, che permetterà in futuro di ridurre sostanzialmente l’utilizzo di chemioterapia adiuvante nel carcinoma mammario.
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Circa 50 anni fa, due ricercatori italiani (Bonadonna e Veronesi) conducevano uno storico studio clinico, dimostrando al mondo che somministrare chemioterapia dopo la rimozione di un tumore mammario poteva ridurre sostanzialmente il rischio di recidiva di malattia.
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50 anni dopo, la chemioterapia adiuvante è ancora uno standard terapeutico nel tumore mammario operabile.
Molti parametri vengono utilizzati per capire se una donna possa trarre beneficio dalla chemio. Uno dei parametri più importanti è il coinvolgimento linfonodale.
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