[Experience with Trastuzumab Deruxtecan for Brain Metastases of Breast Cancer].
Breast cancer is a representative malignancy that is prone to brain metastasis. Recently, several studies have reported the efficacy of trastuzumab deruxtecan(T-DXd)in treating brain metastases. We have used T-DXd in 10 patients with brain metastases, and stereotactic or whole brain irradiation was performed in 9 of 10 patients. All patients had symptoms of brain metastases. Because T-DXd was administered in the late line in the early cases, symptoms due to brain metastases or meningeal dissemination worsened during T-DXd administration in a few cases. None of the four most recent cases showed worsening of brain metastasis or symptoms due to brain metastasis after T-DXd use. We would like to accumulate more cases and investigate whether T-DXd can be preferred over irradiation for asymptomatic patients with brain metastases.
Authors
- Hiroko Kawashima
- Chihiro Kawata
- Noriyuki Inaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4241-5015)
- Yuki Kurokawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5665-4829)
- Hideki Moriyama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7753-0091)
- Ryosuke Mohri
- Hirofumi Terakawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9475-190X)
- Jun Kinoshita (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2871-9549)
- T Umemura
- Hiroyuki Tanaka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7702-2035)
- Ryosuke Machi
- Miki Hirata
- Yuka Nishimura
- T Kitahara
Institutions
- Kanazawa University Hospital (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PubMed
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- Primary Topic
- Brain Metastases and Treatment
- Type
- article