Treatment Options Other Than Endocrine-Based Approaches(I)

Consensus StatementQuality of EvidenceStrength of Rec.Key Ref
1. PARP inhibitors could be used for patients bearing deleterious germline BRCA1/2 mutations who fail or are not suitable for endocrine therapy (ET) and have received at least one line of chemotherapy either in early or metastatic setting.IA1,2
2. Trastuzumab deruxtecan could be used for patients with HR+/HER2-low (HER2 IHC 1+ or HER2 IHC 2+ with negative FISH) or HER2-ultralow (HER2 IHC 0 with membrane staining) metastatic breast cancer who fail ≥ 2 lines of ET or 1 line of ET but with indicated conditions.aIA3,4,5
3. Datopotamab deruxtecan could be used for patients with HR+/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer who fail ET and ≥ 1 line of chemotherapy.bIA6
4. Sacituzumab govitecan could be used for patients with HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer who fail ET and ≥2 lines of chemotherapy.cIA7,8,9
5. Abemaciclib as monotherapy could be considered for patients with HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer with disease progression following ET and prior chemotherapy in the metastatic setting.dIIB10
  1. If patients only experience 1 line of ET, the condition can be as follows: progression ≤ 6 months of starting first-line ET + CDK4/6i, recurrence ≤ 24 months of starting adjuvant ET, or failure of ≥ 1 line of chemotherapy.
  2. TROPION-Breast01 trial did not enroll patients who received more than two lines of chemotherapy.
  3. TROPiCS-02 trial did not enroll patients who received more than four lines of chemotherapy.
  4. The dosage of Abemaciclib used in MONARCH 1 trial was 200mg twice a day, which caused notable diarrhea.

References

  1. Robson, M., et al. Olaparib for metastatic breast cancer in patients with a germline BRCA mutation. New England Journal of Medicine, 2017.
  2. Litton, J. K., et al. Talazoparib in patients with advanced breast cancer and a germline BRCA mutation. New England Journal of Medicine, 2018.
  3. Modi, S., et al. Trastuzumab deruxtecan in previously treated HER2-low advanced breast cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 2022.
  4. Modi, S., et al. Trastuzumab deruxtecan in HER2-low metastatic breast cancer… DESTINY-Breast04 trial. Nature Medicine, 2025.
  5. Bardia, A., et al. Trastuzumab deruxtecan after endocrine therapy in metastatic breast cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 2024.
  6. Bardia, A., et al. Datopotamab deruxtecan versus chemotherapy… TROPION-Breast01. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2025.
  7. Schmid, P., et al. Sacituzumab govitecan (SG) efficacy… TROPiCS-02 study. Annals of Oncology, 2022.
  8. Rugo, H. S., et al. Overall survival with sacituzumab govitecan… TROPiCS-02. The Lancet, 2023.
  9. Xu, B., Wang, S., Yan, M., Sohn, J., Li, W., Tang, J., … & Dai, M. S. (2024). Sacituzumab govitecan in HR+ HER2− metastatic breast cancer: the randomized phase 3 EVER-132-002 trial. Nature Medicine, 30(12), 3709-3716.
  10. Dickler, M. N., et al. MONARCH 1, a phase II study of abemaciclib… Clinical Cancer Research, 2017.