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ArticleNPJ breast cancer2022

Sacituzumab govitecan as second-line treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer-phase 3 ASCENT study subanalysis.

Lisa A Carey, Delphine Loirat, Kevin Punie, Aditya Bardia, Véronique Diéras, Florence Dalenc, Jennifer R Diamond, Christel Fontaine, Grace Wang, Hope S Rugo and 10 more

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Article in NPJ breast cancer, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 17 institutions in 5 countries.

Lisa A CareyUniversity of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Lisa_Carey@med.unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2388-4649
Delphine LoiratMedical Oncology Department and D3i, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Kevin PunieDepartment of General Medical Oncology and Multidisciplinary Breast Centre, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1162-7963
Aditya BardiaDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Véronique DiérasDepartment of Medical Oncology, Centre Eugène Marquis, Rennes, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8094-4738
Florence DalencInstitut Claudius Regaud, IUCT-Oncopole, Toulouse, France.
Jennifer R DiamondDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
Christel FontaineMedical Oncology Department, Oncologisch Centrum, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Grace WangMiami Cancer Institute, Miami, FL, USA.
Hope S RugoDepartment of Medicine, University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sara A HurvitzDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7808-7191
Kevin KalinskyWinship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Joyce O'ShaughnessyBaylor University Medical Center, Texas Oncology, US Oncology, Dallas, TX, USA.
Sibylle LoiblDepartment of Medicine and Research, Hämatologisch-Onkologische Gemeinschaftspraxis am Bethanien-Krankenhaus, Frankfurt, Germany.
Luca GianniMedical Oncology, Gianni Bonadonna Foundation, Milan, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2372-9625
Martine PiccartMedical Oncology Department, Institut Jules Bordet and l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Yanni ZhuDepartment of Biostatistics, Gilead Sciences, Inc, Foster City, CA, USA.
Rosemary DelaneyDepartment of Clinical Research, Gilead Sciences, Inc, Morris Plains, NJ, USA.
See PhanDepartment of Clinical Development, Gilead Sciences Inc, Foster City, CA, USA.
Javier CortésInternational Breast Cancer Center, Quirón Group, Barcelona, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, Madrid, Vall d´Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7623-1583
Gilead Sciences (United States) · USCentre Eugène Marquis · FREmory University · USHarvard University · USImmunomedics (United States) · USInstitut Claudius Regaud · FRInstitut Curie · FRKrankenhaus Bethanien · DEKU Leuven · BEMiami Heart Research Institute · USTexas Oncology · USUniversité Libre de Bruxelles · BEUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USVall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology · ES

Funding

Tissue Procurement & PathologyP50CA058223 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CHARLES M PEROU · 1992 to 2026
$59.3M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA058223
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who relapse early after (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy have more aggressive disease. In the ASCENT trial, sacituzumab govitecan (SG), an antibody-drug conjugate composed of an anti-Trop-2 antibody coupled to SN-38 via a hydrolyzable linker, improved outcomes over single-agent chemotherapy of physician's choice (TPC) in metastatic TNBC (mTNBC). Of 468 patients without known baseline brain metastases, 33/235 vs 32/233 patients (both 14%) in the SG vs TPC arms, respectively, received one line of therapy in the metastatic setting and experienced disease recurrence ≤12 months after (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy. SG prolonged progression-free survival (median 5.7 vs 1.5 months [HR, 0.41; 95% CI, 0.22-0.76]) and overall survival (median 10.9 vs 4.9 months [HR, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.28-0.91]) vs TPC, with a manageable safety profile in this subgroup consistent with the overall population. In this second-line setting, as with later-line therapy, SG improved survival over conventional chemotherapy for patients with mTNBC.

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PMCPMC9184615
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