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Would you consider adjuvant treatment for a premenopausal oligometastatic TNBC with gBRCA2 pv mutation who is now NED and had received prior KN522 with pCR and surgery/consolidative RT to solitary brain mets?

Premenopausal gBRCA2 pathogenic variant TNBC with pCR after completing KEYNOTE-522, who developed solitary brain mets after 9 months of adj pembro, and is now NED s/p surgery/consolidative RT. Would you consider ‘pseudoadjuvant’ therapy vs. active surveillance? (e.g., capecitabine, olaparib, +/- reintroduction pembro with PD-L1)?
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Medical Oncology · Ohio State University
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Based on experience from the NRG-BR002 trial, local therapy for oligometastatic disease is not associated with improved PFS or OS. Furthermore, there are retrospective studies that show improved survival of patients with brain-only metastases who were treated with systemic therapy following definiti...

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Medical Oncology · Mary Lanning Healthcare Morrison Cancer Center/University of Nebraska Medical Center Adjunct Faculty
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I would classify this scenario as not adjuvant or pseudo-adjuvant therapy but rather as stage IV (recurrent oligometastatic) disease rendered NED, which changes the evidentiary framing. The early-stage adjuvant trials that make olaparib, capecitabine, and pembrolizumab "standard" (OlympiA, CREATE-X,...

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Medical Oncology · Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
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My assumption is that the patient has no evidence of local or distant recurrence except in the brain. My recommendation would be initiation of 'maintenance' therapy with olaparib 300 mg BID (or whatever dose the patient can tolerate - given her prior chemo, it would not be unreasonable to start at d...

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