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Pembrolizumab in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer With High Tumor Mutational Burden: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study.

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Alva, AS; Mangat, PK; Garrett-Mayer, E; Halabi, S; Hansra, D; Calfa, CJ; Khalil, MF; Ahn, ER; Cannon, TL; Crilley, P; Fisher, JG; Haslem, DS ...
Published in: J Clin Oncol
August 1, 2021

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.

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J Clin Oncol

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1527-7755

Publication Date

August 1, 2021

Volume

39

Issue

22

Start / End Page

2443 / 2451

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Tumor Burden
  • Registries
  • Oncology & Carcinogenesis
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • Mutation
  • Molecular Targeted Therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Breast Neoplasms
 

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Alva, A. S., Mangat, P. K., Garrett-Mayer, E., Halabi, S., Hansra, D., Calfa, C. J., … 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. In J Clin Oncol (Vol. 39, pp. 2443–2451). United States. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.20.02923
Alva, Ajjai S., Pam K. Mangat, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Susan Halabi, Damien Hansra, Carmen J. Calfa, Maged F. Khalil, et al. “Pembrolizumab in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer With High Tumor Mutational Burden: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study.” In J Clin Oncol, 39:2443–51, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.20.02923.
Alva, Ajjai S., et al. “Pembrolizumab in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer With High Tumor Mutational Burden: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study.J Clin Oncol, vol. 39, no. 22, 2021, pp. 2443–51. Pubmed, doi:10.1200/JCO.20.02923.
Alva AS, Mangat PK, Garrett-Mayer E, Halabi S, Hansra D, Calfa CJ, Khalil MF, Ahn ER, Cannon TL, Crilley P, Fisher JG, Haslem DS, Shrestha S, Antonelli KR, Butler NL, Warren SL, Rygiel AL, Ranasinghe S, Bruinooge SS, Schilsky RL. Pembrolizumab in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer With High Tumor Mutational Burden: Results From the Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study. J Clin Oncol. 2021. p. 2443–2451.

Published In

J Clin Oncol

DOI

EISSN

1527-7755

Publication Date

August 1, 2021

Volume

39

Issue

22

Start / End Page

2443 / 2451

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Tumor Burden
  • Registries
  • Oncology & Carcinogenesis
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • Mutation
  • Molecular Targeted Therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Breast Neoplasms