Prognostic value of circulating HER2 extracellular domain in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast carcinoma treated with TDM-1 (trastuzumab emtansine)
摘要
Antibody–drug conjugates (ADC) improved survival in patients with HER2-positive MBC. To date, there is no prognostic biomarker in routine practice for these patients. HER2-ECD is associated with poor prognosis but has not yet been studied in patients receiving ADC.
MethodsThis monocentric retrospective study assessed in HER2-positive MBC patients shows the prognostic value on OS and PFS of (1) baseline HER2-ECD and CA15-3 and (2) HER2-ECD and CA15-3 after 3 months of treatment with TDM-1. At baseline, patients were divided according to the median value of HER2-ECD and CA15-3 from study population. For kinetic assessments, we compared survival outcomes according to the evolution of HER2-ECD and CA15-3 (stable/decrease vs increase).
Results40 patients were included. For both biomarkers, baseline values were not prognostic for OS neither PFS. Patients with stable or decrease HER2-ECD at 3 months had a significantly longer OS (median 43 versus 15.3 months, p < 0.0001) and PFS (median 9.4 versus 2.9 months, p = 0.0018) than patients with decrease, confirmed in multivariate analysis (p = 0.004 for OS and < 0.0001 for PFS). In contrast, CA15-3 kinetic was only prognostic for PFS (median 9.6 versus 4.9 months, p = 0.019), confirmed in multivariate analysis (p = 0.008).
ConclusionIn this retrospective cohort, HER2-ECD kinetic was a prognostic biomarker for OS and PFS in patients with an HER2-positive MBC treated with TDM-1.