ArticleThe oncologist2025
Correlation between tumor growth rate and survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with trastuzumab deruxtecan.
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- Tumor Growth Rate Predicts Pathological Outcomes in Breast Fibroepithelial Tumors: A Pilot Study and Review of Literature.Cancers · 2026Article
- Cancer interception during treatment: using growth kinetics to create a continuous variable for assessing disease response.The oncologist · 2025Article
- An antibody uniquely binding short 2'-O-methyl RNA oligonucleotide duplexes: formation and recognition of target duplexes on cell surfaces.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
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backgroundPrevious studies in multiple metastatic tumors treated with diverse anticancer agents including immunotherapy, chemotherapy, mAb, and TKIs have suggested the rate of tumor growth (g-score) is inversely associated with survival.
methodsWe performed a retrospective analysis of patients with metastatic breast cancer (mBC) treated with trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd), ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1), or chemotherapy to investigate the impact of those therapies on g-score and explore the association of g-score with clinical outcomes. This is the first report assessing g-score in tumors treated with an ADC.
resultsWe investigated the association of g-score with progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in 2 phase 3 studies in patients with HER2 + mBC (DESTINY-Breast03 (DB-03)) and HER2-low mBC (DESTINY-Breast04 (DB-04)). After grouping patients according to quartiles of g-scores, we explored the association between g-score and PFS/OS using Kaplan-Meier plots and Cox regression models. The median g-score was higher for T-DM1, suggesting a faster growth rate at 0.0009/day vs that for T-DXd at 0.0002/day (P < .0001). Additionally, with data collection stopped at the time of database lock, 23% and 48% of tumors demonstrated only regression without growth in the T-DM1 and T-DXd arms, respectively. In DB-04, median g was 0.0018/day and 0.0006/day (P < .0001); with 17% and 32% of tumors demonstrating only regression with treatment of physician's choice (TPC) and T-DXd, respectively.
conclusionsCompared to T-DM1 and TPC therapies, T-DXd significantly reduced the rate of tumor growth in the overall population and across subgroups. In both studies, the tumor growth rate was inversely associated with PFS and OS. In addition, it showed improved concordance with survival compared to ORR. The use of tumor growth rate as an intermediate endpoint may potentially accelerate drug development and reduce a patient's exposure to agents with limited or no activity.
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