期刊
ONCOIMMUNOLOGY
卷 6, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/2162402X.2016.1207032
关键词
Breast cancer; estrogen; HER2; immunotherapy; sentinel lymph nodes
资金
- National Institutes of Health [R01-CA096997, P30-CA016520]
- Pennies-in-Action(R)
- Henle Foundation
HER2-directed therapies are less effective in patients with ERpos compared to ERneg breast cancer, possibly reflecting bidirectional activation between HER2 and estrogen signaling pathways. We investigated dual blockade using anti-HER2 vaccination and anti-estrogen therapy in HER2(pos)/ERpos early breast cancer patients. In pre-clinical studies of HER2(pos) breast cancer cell lines, ERpos cells were partially resistant to CD4(+) Th1 cytokine-induced metabolic suppression compared with ERneg cells. The addition of anti-estrogen treatment significantly enhanced cytokine sensitivity in ERpos, but not ERneg, cell lines. In two pooled phase-I clinical trials, patients with HER2(pos) early breast cancer were treated with neoadjuvant anti-HER2 dendritic cell vaccination; HER2(pos)/ERpos patients were treated with or without concurrent anti-estrogen therapy. The anti-HER2 Th1 immune response measured in the peripheral blood significantly increased following vaccination, but was similar across the three treatment groups (ERneg vaccination alone, ERpos vaccination alone, ERpos vaccination + anti-estrogen therapy). In the sentinel lymph nodes, however, the anti-HER2 Th1 immune response was significantly higher in ERpos patients treated with combination anti-HER2 vaccination plus anti-estrogen therapy compared to those treated with anti-HER2 vaccination alone. Similar rates of pathologic complete response (pCR) were observed in vaccinated ERneg patients and vaccinated ERpos patients treated with concurrent anti-estrogen therapy (31.4% vs. 28.6%); both were significantly higher than the pCR rate in vaccinated ERpos patients who did not receive anti-estrogen therapy (4.0%, p = 0.03). Since pCR portends long-term favorable outcomes, these results support additional clinical investigations using HER2-directed vaccines in combination with anti-estrogen treatments for ERpos/HER2(pos) DCIS and invasive breast cancer.
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