HER2 Breast Cancer

Rachel Wuerstein, MD, of the Unïversität Müchen, discusses the differences between the global and Asian cohorts in the KAMILLA trial (NCT01702571), which evaluates the benefit of trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1, Kadcyla) in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer who have received prior anti-HER2 and chemotherapy-based treatment.

When comparing de-escalated neoadjuvant ado-trastuzumab emtansine, with or without endocrine therapy, vs trastuzumab plus endocrine therapy baseline tumor immunogenicity may be associated with higher pathologic complete response rates and favorable outcomes in hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive early stage breast cancer.

Progression-free survival after [vic]-trastuzumab duocarmazine treatment in patients with pretreated, metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer was improved compared with physician’s choice chemotherapy.

Patients with previously treated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer experienced a clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki vs standard of care trastuzumab emtansine in the DESTINY-Breast03 trial.

Elisa Agostinetto, MD, of the Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Rozzano, Milan, Italy, discussed the rational of investigating the accuracy of PREDICT+ in HER2-positive breast cancer.

Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD discusses the results of a phase 2 study examining the combination of tucatinib, trastuzumab, and capecitabine in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer with leptomeningeal metastasis.

In an Interview with Targeted Oncology, Debasish Tripathy, MD, discusses the triplet regimen for HER2+ breast cancer with leptomeningeal metastases in greater detail along with its broader clinical applications.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, lead study author Elisa Agostinetto, MD, of the Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Rozzano, Milan, Italy, discussed the accuracy of PREDICT+ in HER2-positive breast cancer in greater detail and its clinical implications.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD, discusses the study in more detail and how this newly approved triplet combination may improve survival for patients living with HER2-positive breast cancer with central nervous system metastases.

With the development of anti-HER2 antibody-drug conjugates, clinicians are looking to expand the number of patients they can treat. Now, a new study shows that HER2-low-positive tumors can be identified as a new subgroup to help treat patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.

The addition of trastuzumab to chemotherapy for the treatment of early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer helps to reduce disease recurrence and can potentially reduce the mortality from breast cancer by a third worldwide.

Guiseppe Curigliano, MD, discusses the design and results of the HER2CLIMB-02 study which evaluated the efficacy of tucatinib in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine in HER2-positive breast cancer patients with and without brain metastases compared to placebo.

A highly statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival has been observed with the HER2 monoclonal antibody trastuzumab deruxtecan treatment compared with trastuzumab emtansine in patients with HER2-positive unresectable or metastatic breast cancer, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 DESTINY-Breast03 trial.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology™, Kamran A. Ahmed, MD, discussed the novel treatment strategy of combining radiotherapy with intrathecal trastuzumab/pertuzumab as well as and the rationale behind the combination.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Guiseppe Curigliano, MD, an associate professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Milano and the head of the Division of Early Drug Development at the European Institute of Oncology, discussed the HER2Climb study and the impact of tucatinib in HER2-positive breast cancer care.

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Patients who recived olaparib after a median follow-up of 2.5 years revealed a 42% reduction in invasive disease–free survival, including local and metastatic recurrence of breast cancer, other new cancers, and death due to any cause.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Rachel Wuerstein, MD, discussed the implications of the KAMILLA trial and the benefit of T-DM1. Wuerstein also discussed the data that show TDM1’s potential use for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer beyond the standard-of-care second-line setting.

A prospective analysis demonstrated a trend toward worse prognosis for patients with metastatic breast cancer who were initially HER2 negative and switched to HER2 positive treated with HER2-directed therapies compared with those who were HER2 positive at diagnosis.

Strategies for treating patients with HER2-positive breast cancer and metastatic brain lesions was a topic discussed between William J. Gradishar, MD, and a group of peers during a Targeted Oncology Case-Based Roundtable event.

Adding paclitaxel to the combination of trastuzumab and pertuzumab was associated with pathologic complete response and invasive disease-free survival in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer compared with the doublet alone.

Adjuvant trastuzumab is showing promising long-term results in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer, a population that is representative of most patients seen in clinical practice.