Pembrolizumab in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer With High Tumor Mutational Burden: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study.
Publication/Presentation Date
8-1-2021
Abstract
PURPOSE: The TAPUR Study is a phase II basket trial that aims to identify signals of antitumor activity of commercially available targeted agents in patients with advanced cancers harboring genomic alterations known to be drug targets. Results in a cohort of patients with metastatic breast cancer (mBC) with high tumor mutational burden (HTMB) treated with pembrolizumab are reported.
METHODS: Patients with advanced mBC received standard doses of either 2 mg/kg or 200 mg infusions of pembrolizumab every 3 weeks. Simon's two-stage design was used with a primary study end point of disease control (DC) defined as objective response or stable disease of at least 16 weeks duration. If two or more patients in stage I achieved DC, the cohort would enroll 18 additional patients in stage II. Secondary end points include progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival, and safety.
RESULTS: Twenty-eight patients were enrolled from October 2016 to July 2018. All patients' tumors had HTMB ranging from 9 to 37 mutations/megabase. DC and objective response were noted in 37% (95% CI, 21 to 50) and 21% of patients (95% CI, 8 to 41), respectively. Median PFS was 10.6 weeks (95% CI, 7.7 to 21.1); median overall survival was 30.6 weeks (95% CI, 18.3 to 103.3). No relationship was observed between PFS and tumor mutational burden. Five patients experienced ≥ 1 serious adverse event or grade 3 adverse event at least possibly related to pembrolizumab consistent with the product label.
CONCLUSION: Pembrolizumab monotherapy has antitumor activity in heavily pretreated patients with mBC characterized by HTMB. Our findings support the recent US Food and Drug Administration approval of pembrolizumab for treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic solid tumors with HTMB without alternative treatment options.
Volume
39
Issue
22
First Page
2443
Last Page
2451
ISSN
1527-7755
Published In/Presented At
Alva, A. S., Mangat, P. K., Garrett-Mayer, E., Halabi, S., Hansra, D., Calfa, C. J., Khalil, M. F., Ahn, E. R., Cannon, T. L., Crilley, P., Fisher, J. G., Haslem, D. S., Shrestha, S., Antonelli, K. R., Butler, N. L., Warren, S. L., Rygiel, A. L., Ranasinghe, S., Bruinooge, S. S., & Schilsky, R. L. (2021). Pembrolizumab in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer With High Tumor Mutational Burden: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 39(22), 2443–2451. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.20.02923
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
33844595
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article