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Clinical Trial
. 2015 Jan;45(1):12-8.
doi: 10.1093/jjco/hyu160. Epub 2014 Oct 20.

Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of trastuzumab emtansine in Japanese patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer

Harukaze Yamamoto  1 , Masashi Ando  2 , Kenjiro Aogi  3 , Hiroji Iwata  4 , Kenji Tamura  5 , Kan Yonemori  6 , Chikako Shimizu  6 , Fumikata Hara  3 , Daisuke Takabatake  7 , Masaya Hattori  4 , Takashi Asakawa  8 , Yasuhiro Fujiwara  6
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Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of trastuzumab emtansine in Japanese patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer

Harukaze Yamamoto et al. Jpn J Clin Oncol. 2015 Jan.

Abstract

Objective: Trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1), an antibody-drug conjugate composed of the cytotoxic agent DM1 conjugated to trastuzumab via a stable thioether linker, has shown clinical activity in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients. This study evaluated the maximum tolerated dose, toxicity and pharmacokinetics of trastuzumab emtansine in Japanese breast cancer patients.

Methods: Inoperable advanced or recurrent human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer patients were administered trastuzumab emtansine intravenously at a dose of 1.8, 2.4 or 3.6 mg/kg every 3 weeks. The maximum tolerated dose was estimated using the continual reassessment method.

Results: This study enrolled 10 patients who were administered trastuzumab emtansine for a median of seven cycles. The dose-limiting toxicity was Grade 3 elevation of aspartate aminotransferase/alanine aminotransferase at the 2.4 mg/kg dose level. The maximum tolerated dose was estimated to be 3.6 mg/kg because at the point when dose-limiting toxicity was evaluable in 10 patients, the probability of dose-limiting toxicity estimated using the continual reassessment method was closest to 25% at a dose of 3.6 mg/kg and this was unchanged by the results for patients enrolled after that. The most frequent adverse events were nausea, arthralgia, fever, fatigue and decreased appetite. Adverse events were generally tolerable. The maximum concentration and area under the concentration-time curve increased linearly with the dose.

Conclusions: Trastuzumab emtansine up to 3.6 mg/kg was well tolerated by Japanese breast cancer patients. Although thrombocytopenia and hepatotoxicity tended to be more severe than was seen in Western patients in previous trastuzumab emtansine trials, those adverse events recovered without special supportive treatment.

Keywords: HER2-positive; breast cancer; pharmacokinetics; safety; trastuzumab emtansine.

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