HER2+ Breast Cancer

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, reflects on key pivotal trials and recent regulatory decisions that have propelled progress in metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.

January 20, 2021 - The antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan has been granted conditional approval in the European Union for use as a single agent in the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have previously received 2 or more HER2-based regimens.

A discussion on systemic treatment for HER2+ breast cancer and the impact of recent clinical trial data on decision making, including data discussed at the ESMO and SABCS 2020 Annual Meetings.

Sara A. Hurvitz, MD, discusses the expanding HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer treatment arsenal.

Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD, discusses the updated findings from the ExteNET trial, the role of TKIs in treating patients with brain metastases, and unanswered questions that future research efforts should aim to address.

Lecia V. Sequist, MD, MPH, discusses the importance of implementing broad molecular testing in lung cancer.

January 5th, 2021 -The FDA has granted a fast track designation to the investigational antibody-drug conjugate ARX788 for use as a monotherapy in the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have previously received 1 or more HER2-targeted regimens in the metastatic setting.

Clinical risk continues to guide treatment decisions in early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer. The presence of brain metastases has become a driving force for treatment selection in the metastatic setting.

December 23, 2020 - The European Commission has approved the fixed-dose combination of pertuzumab and trastuzumab with hyaluronidase, to be administered via a subcutaneous injection in the treatment of patients with early and metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.

Ruta D. Rao, MD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology at Rush Medical College, as well as the director of the Coleman Foundation Comprehensive Breast Cancer Clinic and medical director of Rush University Cancer Center, discusses emerging treatments for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Komal Jhaveri, MD, FACP, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses sequencing treatments for patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.

December 16, 2020 - The FDA has approved margetuximab-cmkb plus chemotherapy for use in adult patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have previously received 2 or more anti-HER2 regimens, at least one of which was for metastatic disease.

December 15, 2020 - The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has adopted a positive opinion for fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for use as a single agent in adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer who have previously received 2 or more anti-HER2–based regimens.

December 14, 2020 - The combination of neratinib and capecitabine showed a 34% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death compared with lapatinib and capecitabine in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer who had central nervous system metastases at baseline.

December 11, 2020 - The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has granted a positive opinion to tucatinib in combination with trastuzumab and capecitabine for use in adult patients with HER2-positive, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer who had received at least 2 previous anti-HER2 therapies.

December 11, 2020 - Use of a novel HER2 quantitative continuous score was better able to provide an objective and quantitative assessment of HER2 expression to identify patients who are most likely to respond to fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki.

In our exclusive interview, Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, sheds light on the considerations that should be made leading up to treatment selection in common clinical scenarios in breast cancer.

Breast cancer specialists discuss noteworthy data on efficacy and safety about fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki, neratinib, and tucatinib.

Nusayba Bagegni, MD, discusses prominent data that have emerged in early-stage and metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.