🤔 Which 1L systemic treatment would you choose for a post-menopausal patient with metastatic recurrence of HR+ #BreastCancer with the 👆🏽 characteristics from tweets 1-3
🔹Most common subtype: ~ 70% of cases
🔹historically treated with endocrine tx & chemotherapy
🔹Gene signatures (ex OncotypeDX) allow to estimate benefit of chemo & aid clinical decision making
📍Tested in monarchE phase 3 trial
📍Last update of the study: 2 years of adjuvant abema added to ET led to ⬇️ by 33% in risk of recurrence compared with adjuvant ET alone
🔹1L metastatic setting, adding CDK4/6i to endocrine treatment has demonstrated significant & comparable improvements in PFS across phase 3 trials of 3 different agents (palbociclib, ribociclib, abemaciclib)
OS results p3 recently reported
✨PALOMA2 (palbociclib):👎🏽 significant OS advantage
✨MONALEESA2 (ribociclib):👍🏽significant OS advantage
✨MONARCH3 (abemaciclib): data immature, non-significant OS improvement
✨MAINTAIN: + ribociclib (after progress to other CDK4/6i): sig PFS advantage over fulv mono
🔹Await p3 post CDK4/6
✨PrE0102: + everolimus: sig PFS advantage over fulv mono
👏🏽phase 3 novel oral SERD data have led to new approval
📍phase 3
📍oral SERD elacestrant outperformed SoC endocrine treatment (AI or Fulvestrant) in endocrine-refractory MBC
📍benefit enhanced in ESR1-mutant #BreastCancer & in patients who have received > 12 months of prior CDK4/6 inhibitors
🎉 Based on data, elacestrant was approved on Jan 27, 2023 for treatment of patients with ESR1-mutant HR+ breast cancer who have progressed to at least 1L of endocrine treatment
📚 ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.12…
🎉Multiplicity of potential treatment options are becoming available for patients progressing to 1L ET + CDK4/6-inh
🎉expected to improve outcomes in near future for this large population of patients
Proud to contribute to the remarkable scientific journey of #APT, whose 10-year analysis is now published on @TheLancetOncol. Adjuvant TH confirmed outstanding long-term outcomes for patients with small HER2+ breast cancer. Aim for the next decade: biomarker-informed treatments!
Great idea: time for Elacestrant thread Tuesday! 🧵
But first a reminder: access to paywalled papers from @Annals_Oncology, @ESMO_Open & multiple other affiliated journals is free for @myESMO members, and I could not recommend more to become a member! esmo.org/membership 1/
Endocrine treatment is among the most effective treatment strategies we have for breast cancer. 50 years ago, the approval of the SERD tamoxifen really revolutionized the field, & we still use the drug today.
Yet, no novel ET had been approved for the last 20 years. Until now 2/
Multiple oral SERDs (selective estrogen receptor degraders) are being developed for patients with HR+ MBC. The first to achieve positive phase 3 results was elacestrant, tested in the #EMERALD trial vs. SoC ET (fulvestrant or AI). Primary endpoint -> PFS overall & in ESR1-mut
T-DXd has shown remarkable activity for treating HER2-positive and HER2-low breast cancers.
However, it may soon expand its reach, and become a treatment option even for HER2-0 tumors.
Here’s the 10 reasons why:
1. Because it works!
The only study that tested T-DXd for treating HER2-0 metastatic breast cancer (the phase 2 DAISY trial) demonstrated a response rate of 30% and a duration of response of 6.8 months. Not bad for being “zero”.
2. Because activity of T-DXd in HER2-0 has been also observed in other tumor types.
In DESTINY-Lung01 (T-DXd for HER2-mutant NSCLC), several responses were observed in patients w/ HER2-0 tumors, including the only complete response observed in the trial.
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