Hope S Rugo, David W Cescon, Peter Schmid, Zbigniew Nowecki, Seock-Ah Im, Mastura Md Yusof, Carlos Gallardo, Hiroji Iwata, Oleg Lipatov, Felipe Cruz, Carlos Henrique Barrios, Roberto Hegg, Sherene Loi, Maria Gion, Marco Torregroza Otero, Péter Árkosy, Rafal Tarnawski, Lili Yao, Jaime Mejia, Wilbur Pan, Javier Cortés
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Abstract
Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) versus chemotherapy in the phase 3 randomized KEYNOTE-355 study in participants with previously untreated, advanced triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) with PD-L1 combined positive score (CPS) ≥ 10. Among participants with clinical benefit from pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy, discontinuation of chemotherapy before pembrolizumab for any reason was associated with similar median PFS and OS to that in the overall population. Additionally, we further characterized immune-mediated adverse events (AEs) in KEYNOTE-355. Most immune-mediated AEs were manageable with treatment interruption and supportive care. In participants treated with pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy with immune-mediated AEs, there appeared to be numerical improvement in efficacy. This analysis provides additional information on the use of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy as standard-of-care therapy in patients with previously untreated, advanced TNBC with PD-L1 CPS ≥ 10. This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02819518; registration date, June 28, 2016).
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npj Breast Cancer publishes original research articles, reviews, brief correspondence, meeting reports, editorial summaries and hypothesis generating observations which could be unexplained or preliminary findings from experiments, novel ideas, or the framing of new questions that need to be solved. Featured topics of the journal include imaging, immunotherapy, molecular classification of disease, mechanism-based therapies largely targeting signal transduction pathways, carcinogenesis including hereditary susceptibility and molecular epidemiology, survivorship issues including long-term toxicities of treatment and secondary neoplasm occurrence, the biophysics of cancer, mechanisms of metastasis and their perturbation, and studies of the tumor microenvironment.