Trastuzumab treatment improves brain metastasis outcomes through control and durable prolongation of systemic extracranial disease in HER2-overexpressing breast cancer patientsopen access
- Authors
- Park, YH[Park, Y. H.]; Park, MJ[Park, M. J.]; Ji, SH[Ji, S. H.]; Yi, SY[Yi, S. Y.]; Lim, DH[Lim, D. H.]; Nam, DH[Nam, D. H.]; Lee, JI[Lee, J-I]; Park, W[Park, W.]; Choi, DH[Choi, D. H.]; Huh, SJ[Huh, S. J.]; Ahn, JS[Ahn, J. S.]; Kang, WK[Kang, W. K.]; Park, K[Park, K.]; Im, YH[Im, Y-H]
- Issue Date
- 17-Mar-2009
- Publisher
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
- Keywords
- trastuzumab; brain metastasis; HER2-overexpressing breast cancer; extracranial disease control
- Citation
- BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER, v.100, no.6, pp.894 - 900
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
- Volume
- 100
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 894
- End Page
- 900
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/78243
- DOI
- 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604941
- ISSN
- 0007-0920
- Abstract
- In patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2)-overexpressing breast cancer, treatment with trastuzumab has been shown to markedly improve the outcome. We investigated the role of trastuzumab on brain metastasis (BM) in HER2-positive breast cancer patients. From 1999 to 2006, 251 patients were treated with palliative chemotherapy for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer at Samsung Medical Center. The medical records of these patients were analysed to study the effects of trastuzumab on BM prevalence and outcomes. Patients were grouped according to trastuzumab therapy: pre-T (no trastuzumab therapy) vs post-T (trastuzumab therapy). The development of BM between the two treatment groups was significantly different (37.8% for post-T vs 25.0% for pre-T, P = 0.028). Patients who had received trastuzumab had longer times to BM compared with patients who were not treated with trastuzumab (median 15 months for post-T group vs 10 months for pre-T group, P = 0.035). Time to death (TTD) from BM was significantly longer in the post-T group than in the pre-T group (median 14.9 vs 4.0 months, P = 0.0005). Extracranial disease control at the time of BM, 12 months or more of progression-free survival of extracranial disease and treatment with lapatinib were independent prognostic factors for TTD from BM.
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