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- Title
A Retrospective Analysis for Patients with HER2-Positive Gastric Cancer Who Were Treated with Trastuzumab-Based Chemotherapy: In the Perspectives of Ethnicity and Histology.
- Authors
Jun Ho Yi; Jung Hun Kang; In Gyu Hwang; Hee Kyung Ahn; Hyun Jin Baek; Soon Il Lee; Do Hyoung Lim; Young-Woong Won; Jun Ho Ji; Hyo Song Kim; Sun Young Rha; Sung Yong Oh; Kyung Eun Lee; Taekyu Lim; Chi Hoon Maeng; Moon Jin Kim; Seung Tae Kim; Jeeyun Lee; Joon Oh Park; Young Suk Park
- Abstract
Purpose While the Trastuzumab for Gastric Cancer (ToGA) trial demonstrated the efficacy and safety of trastuzumab-based chemotherapy in HER2-positive metastatic gastric cancer, the overall survival (OS) benefit was not found in Asian and diffuse-type cancer patients. The aim of the study is to investigate predictive markers for trastuzumab-based chemotherapy. Materials and Methods Data of patients with HER2-positive gastric cancer treated with trastuzumab-based chemotherapy were analyzed retrospectively. Results A total of 168 Asian patients were included. The median age was 60 years (range, 27 to 85 years) and the male:female ratio was 118 (70.2%):50 (29.8%). Fourteen (8.3%), 63 (37.5%), 75 (44.6%), and 11 (6.5%) patients had well, moderately, poorly-differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma and signet ring cell carcinoma, respectively. With 14 complete responses and 73 partial responses, the response rate was 50.6%. The median progression-free survival (PFS) was 10.2 months (95% confidence interval [CI], 8.7 to 11.7), and the median OS was 18.5 months (95% CI, 16.4 to 50.6). Next, we investigated the effect of poorly-differentiated histology (PDH, poorly-differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma+signet ring cell carcinoma) on clinical outcomes. The median PFS (8.9 months vs. 11.5 months, p=0.16) was slightly inferior in PDH patients, and the median OS was significantly shorter in PDH patients (14.6 months vs. 19.0 months, p=0.025). Conclusion While subset analysis of the ToGA trial demonstrated that trastuzumab-based chemotherapy may not be beneficial for Asians and patients with PDH, our data may suggest that even in Asian patients and patients with PDH, trastuzumab-based chemotherapy could be associated with improved clinical outcomes in patients with HER2-positive gastric cancer.
- Subjects
RETROSPECTIVE studies; PROTO-oncogenes; STOMACH cancer patients; STOMACH cancer treatment; TRASTUZUMAB; CANCER chemotherapy; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Cancer Research & Treatment, 2016, Vol 48, Issue 2, p553
- ISSN
1598-2998
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4143/crt.2015.155