Title
Patient-reported outcomes from KATHERINE: A phase 3 study of adjuvant trastuzumab emtansine versus trastuzumab in patients with residual invasive disease after neoadjuvant therapy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-14-2020
Publication Title
Cancer
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The phase 3 KATHERINE trial demonstrated significantly improved invasive disease-free survival with adjuvant trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) versus trastuzumab in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer and residual invasive disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus HER2-targeted therapy.
METHODS: Patients who received taxane- and trastuzumab-containing neoadjuvant therapy (with/without anthracyclines) and had residual invasive disease (breast and/or axillary nodes) at surgery were randomly assigned to 14 cycles of adjuvant T-DM1 (3.6 mg/kg intravenously every 3 weeks) or trastuzumab (6 mg/kg intravenously every 3 weeks). The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30 (QLQ-C30) and breast cancer module (QLQ-BR23) were completed at screening, at day 1 of cycles 5 and 11, within 30 days after study drug completion, and at 6- and 12-month follow-up visits.
RESULTS: Of patients who were randomly assigned to T-DM1 (n = 743) and trastuzumab (n = 743), 612 (82%) and 640 (86%), respectively, had valid baseline and ≥1 postbaseline assessments. No clinically meaningful changes (≥10 points) from baseline in mean QLQ-C30 and QLQ-BR23 scores occurred in either arm. More patients receiving T-DM1 reported clinically meaningful deterioration at any assessment point in role functioning (49% vs 41%), appetite loss (38% vs 28%), constipation (47% vs 38%), fatigue (66% vs 60%), nausea/vomiting (39% vs 30%), and systemic therapy side effects (49% vs 36%). These differences were no longer apparent at the 6-month follow-up assessment, except for role functioning (23% vs 16%).
CONCLUSION: These data suggest that health-related quality of life was generally maintained in both study arms over the course of treatment.
Clinical Institute
Cancer
Clinical Institute
Women & Children
Department
Oncology
Recommended Citation
Conte, PierFranco; Schneeweiss, Andreas; Loibl, Sibylle; Mamounas, Eleftherios P; von Minckwitz, Gunter; Mano, Max S; Untch, Michael; Huang, Chiun-Sheng; Wolmark, Norman; Rastogi, Priya; D'Hondt, Veronique; Redondo, Andrés; Stamatovic, Ljiljana; Bonnefoi, Hervé; Castro-Salguero, Hugo; Fischer, Hans H; Wahl, Tanya; Song, Chunyan; Boulet, Thomas; Trask, Peter; and Geyer, Charles E, "Patient-reported outcomes from KATHERINE: A phase 3 study of adjuvant trastuzumab emtansine versus trastuzumab in patients with residual invasive disease after neoadjuvant therapy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer." (2020). Articles, Abstracts, and Reports. 3046.
https://digitalcommons.providence.org/publications/3046
