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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 18, Pages 2773-2778Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.03.8331
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Purpose Cardiotoxicity precludes the concurrent use of doxorubicin and trastuzumab. Because pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) has equal efficacy but significantly less cardiotoxicity than conventional doxorubicin, this phase II study assessed the rate of cardiotoxicity and efficacy of first-line PLD plus trastuzumab in HER-2-positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Patients and Methods Women with HER-2-positive, measurable MBC, and a baseline left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) >= 55% were treated with PLD 50 mg/m(2) every 4 weeks for six cycles and weekly trastuzumab (4 mg/kg loading dose then 2 mg/kg thereafter). Cardiotoxicity was defined as symptomatic congestive heart failure (CHF) with >= 10% decline in LVEF to below lower limits of normal, >= 15% decline in LVEF without symptomatic CHF, or less than 10% LVEF decline to less than 45%. Results Thirty women were enrolled, 13 had received prior adjuvant anthracyclines. A median 5.5 cycles of PLD were administered. Mean baseline LVEF was 62.8%, 59.5% after cycle four, and 58.3% after cycle six. Three patients (10%) developed protocol-defined cardiotoxicity. No patients developed symptomatic CHF. Response rate was 52%, with an additional 38% stable disease rate. At a median follow-up of 13.9 months, the median progression-free survival was 12.0 months; median overall survival has not yet been reached. The most common adverse events were grade 3 hand-foot syndrome (30%) and grade 3/4 neutropenia (27%). Conclusion The combination of PLD and trastuzumab is a well tolerated and active regimen in HER-2-positive MBC. Cardiotoxicity was observed, but limited to asymptomatic declines in LVEF. Further evaluation of this combination is warranted.
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