Ouyang Quchang, Yan Min, Wang Xiaojia, Zhang Qingyuan
Department of Medical Oncology, Hunan Cancer Hospital, Changsha, China.
Department of Oncology, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University (Henan Cancer Hospital), Zhengzhou, China.
Transl Breast Cancer Res. 2022 Oct 31;3:33. doi: 10.21037/tbcr-22-49. eCollection 2022.
Human epithelial growth factor receptor 2-positive (HER2) breast cancer is easy to relapse and metastasize in the early stage, and usually has more aggressive clinical behavior and worse patient survival outcomes as compared with estrogen receptor-positive (ER), HER2-negative (HER2) breast cancer. The HER2 breast cancer has been significantly enhanced by trastuzumab and other multiple novel HER2 anti-tumor drugs. The dual combination regimen of trastuzumab + pertuzumab has been established as the standard first-line therapy for advanced HER2 patients, and pyrotinib with capecitabine is the preferred second-line treatment in Chinese patients. However, no third- or later-line regimens are currently recommended, and thus, the treatment needs of these patients remain unmet. Margetuximab is a human/mouse chimeric anti-HER2 immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) monoclonal antibody (mAb) based on the murine precursor of trastuzumab, has shown greater efficacy than trastuzumab in terms of its natural killer (NK) cell-mediated antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) effect and may become the preferred solution for HER2 metastatic breast cancer (mBC) following progression on second-line therapy with small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). This paper explores discussion of therapeutic strategies of anti-HER2 drugs based on Chinese clinical practice, and summarizes the consensus and controversy in the post-anti-HER2 TKIs guideline recommendations, so as to provide certain guidance to HER2 mBC patients pretreated with TKIs in the third or later lines.
人表皮生长因子受体2阳性(HER2)乳腺癌在早期容易复发和转移,与雌激素受体阳性(ER)、HER2阴性乳腺癌相比,通常具有更具侵袭性的临床行为和更差的患者生存结局。曲妥珠单抗和其他多种新型HER2抗肿瘤药物显著改善了HER2乳腺癌的治疗情况。曲妥珠单抗+帕妥珠单抗的双联方案已被确立为晚期HER2患者的标准一线治疗方案,吡咯替尼联合卡培他滨是中国患者首选的二线治疗方案。然而,目前尚无三线及以上治疗方案被推荐,因此这些患者的治疗需求仍未得到满足。玛格妥昔单抗是一种基于曲妥珠单抗鼠源前体的人/鼠嵌合抗HER2免疫球蛋白G1(IgG1)单克隆抗体(mAb),在自然杀伤(NK)细胞介导的抗体依赖性细胞介导的细胞毒性(ADCC)效应方面显示出比曲妥珠单抗更高的疗效,可能成为HER2转移性乳腺癌(mBC)在接受小分子酪氨酸激酶抑制剂(TKIs)二线治疗进展后的首选治疗方案。本文基于中国临床实践探讨抗HER2药物的治疗策略,并总结抗HER2 TKIs指南推荐后的共识与争议,以便为接受三线及以上TKIs预处理的HER2 mBC患者提供一定指导。