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SABCS 2025 | Treatment landscape post-CDK4/6 inhibitors in HR+/HER2-low metastatic breast cancer

Sarah L. Sammons, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, discusses the evolving treatment landscape for patients with heavily pretreated hormone receptor-positive (HR+)/HER2-low metastatic breast cancer who have progressed on CDK4/6 inhibitors and multiple lines of endocrine therapy. Dr Sammons outlines targeted therapeutic options for genomically-defined subgroups, including ESR1-mutant, PIK3CA-mutant, and AKT or PTEN-altered disease, as well as endocrine therapy options for non-mutant patients such as everolimus combinations and capivasertib. For endocrine-resistant patients, approximately 90% of ER-positive/HER2-negative breast cancers express HER2-low or HER2-ultralow status and derive benefit from trastuzumab deruxtecan as first- or second-line chemotherapy. Additional treatment options include conventional chemotherapies (capecitabine, taxanes) and two approved TROP2-directed antibody-drug conjugates (datopotamab deruxtecan and sacituzumab govitecan), particularly for HER2-zero patients. This interview took place at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2025 Meeting in San Antonio, TX.

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The treatment landscape post-CDK46 is evolving dramatically. We tend to max out our endocrine therapy options. So we now have targeted therapeutic options for ESR1 mutant patients, PIK3CA mutant, AKT or P10 altered. And then for our non-mutant patients, we have other endocrine therapy options as well. Everolimus combinations, get a tolasib is coming down the pike. Once we’re sure that a patient’s no longer benefiting from endocrine therapy, we call them endocrine resistant...

The treatment landscape post-CDK46 is evolving dramatically. We tend to max out our endocrine therapy options. So we now have targeted therapeutic options for ESR1 mutant patients, PIK3CA mutant, AKT or P10 altered. And then for our non-mutant patients, we have other endocrine therapy options as well. Everolimus combinations, get a tolasib is coming down the pike. Once we’re sure that a patient’s no longer benefiting from endocrine therapy, we call them endocrine resistant. And at that point, we use chemotherapy or antibody drug conjugates. 90% of our patients are HER2 low or HER2 ultra low. 90% of our ER positive HER2 negative patients are low or ultra low. Those patients derive benefit from trastuzumab droduroxtecan either as the first or second-line chemotherapy. Patients can also benefit from chemotherapy like capecitabine, taxane. Then we also have two approved trope-2 ADCs, datopotamab-duroxtecan and sasituzumab, particularly for our HER2-truly-zero patients.

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