TY - JOUR
T1 - Molecular correlates of response to eribulin and pembrolizumab in hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer
AU - Keenan, Tanya E.
AU - Guerriero, Jennifer L.
AU - Barroso-Sousa, Romualdo
AU - Li, Tianyu
AU - O’Meara, Tess
AU - Giobbie-Hurder, Anita
AU - Tayob, Nabihah
AU - Hu, Jiani
AU - Severgnini, Mariano
AU - Agudo, Judith
AU - Vaz-Luis, Ines
AU - Anderson, Leilani
AU - Attaya, Victoria
AU - Park, Jihye
AU - Conway, Jake
AU - He, Meng Xiao
AU - Reardon, Brendan
AU - Shannon, Erin
AU - Wulf, Gerburg
AU - Spring, Laura M.
AU - Jeselsohn, Rinath
AU - Krop, Ian
AU - Lin, Nancy U.
AU - Partridge, Ann
AU - Winer, Eric P.
AU - Mittendorf, Elizabeth A.
AU - Liu, David
AU - Van Allen, Eliezer M.
AU - Tolaney, Sara M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have minimal therapeutic effect in hormone receptor-positive (HR+) breast cancer. We present final overall survival (OS) results (n = 88) from a randomized phase 2 trial of eribulin ± pembrolizumab for patients with metastatic HR+ breast cancer, computationally dissect genomic and/or transcriptomic data from pre-treatment tumors (n = 52) for molecular associations with efficacy, and identify cytokine changes differentiating response and ICI-related toxicity (n = 58). Despite no improvement in OS with combination therapy (hazard ratio 0.95, 95% CI 0.59–1.55, p = 0.84), immune infiltration and antigen presentation distinguished responding tumors, while tumor heterogeneity and estrogen signaling independently associated with resistance. Moreover, patients with ICI-related toxicity had lower levels of immunoregulatory cytokines. Broadly, we establish a framework for ICI response in HR+ breast cancer that warrants diagnostic and therapeutic validation. ClinicalTrials.gov Registration: NCT03051659.
AB - Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have minimal therapeutic effect in hormone receptor-positive (HR+) breast cancer. We present final overall survival (OS) results (n = 88) from a randomized phase 2 trial of eribulin ± pembrolizumab for patients with metastatic HR+ breast cancer, computationally dissect genomic and/or transcriptomic data from pre-treatment tumors (n = 52) for molecular associations with efficacy, and identify cytokine changes differentiating response and ICI-related toxicity (n = 58). Despite no improvement in OS with combination therapy (hazard ratio 0.95, 95% CI 0.59–1.55, p = 0.84), immune infiltration and antigen presentation distinguished responding tumors, while tumor heterogeneity and estrogen signaling independently associated with resistance. Moreover, patients with ICI-related toxicity had lower levels of immunoregulatory cytokines. Broadly, we establish a framework for ICI response in HR+ breast cancer that warrants diagnostic and therapeutic validation. ClinicalTrials.gov Registration: NCT03051659.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-021-25769-z
DO - 10.1038/s41467-021-25769-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 34548479
AN - SCOPUS:85115436756
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 12
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 5563
ER -