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. 2023 Aug 17;28(10):e867–e876. doi: 10.1093/oncolo/oyad137

Table 1.

Study population and treatments features by pre-exposition to neo/adjuvant anti HER2 treatments among patients with recurrent MBC.

Factor Pre-exposition status Total Chi-square test, P-value
Class Relapsed not pre-exposed to trastuzumab
N = 1070
Relapsed and pre-exposed to trastuzumab
N = 1343
Period of MBC diagnosis 2008-2012 651 687 1338 <.001
60.8% 51.2% 55.4%
2012-2018 419 656 1075
39.2% 48.8% 44.6%
Age at MBC 18-49 207 520 727 <.001
19.3% 38.7% 30.1%
50-69 525 651 1176
49.1% 48.5% 48.7%
70 and + 338 172 510
31.6% 12.8% 21.2%
Performance Status at MBC diagnosis 0 236 295 531 .47
22.1% 22% 22%
1 224 269 493
20.9% 20% 20.4%
2 73 78 151
6.8% 5.8% 6.3%
3-4 42 41 83
3.9% 3.1% 3.4%
PS NA 495 660 1155
46.3% 49.1% 47.9%
Histological type Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) 770 1146 1916 <.001
72.9% 85.5% 79.9%
Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC) 84 61 145
7.9% 4.6% 6,1%
IDC and ILC 22 12 34
2.1% 0.9% 1.4%
Other 181 121 302
17.1% 9% 12.6%
Hormone receptors status HR− 245 501 746 <.001
22.9% 37.3% 30.9%
HR+ 825 842 1667
77.1% 62.7% 69.1%
Number of metastatic sites 1 567 772 1339 .15
53% 57.4% 55.6%
2 271 299 570
25.3% 22.3% 23.6%
3 140 158 298
13.1% 11.8% 12.3%
4 and more 92 114 206
8.6% 8.5% 8.5%
Type of metastases Visceral metastasis 577 617 1194 <.001
53.9% 45.9% 49.5%
Bone only metastatis 178 188 366
16.6% 14% 15.2%
Brain metastasis 71 284 355
6.6% 21.1% 14.7%
Other 244 254 498
22.9% 19% 20.6%
Disease-free interval* (months) 6-24 133 400 533 <.001
12.4% 29.8% 22.1%
24-36 95 316 411
8.9% 23.5% 17%
36-48 87 210 297
8.1% 15.6% 12.3%
>48 755 417 1172
70.6% 31.1% 48.6%
Systemic treatment received in early setting
Anthracyclines No 574 253 827 <.001
53.6% 18.8% 34.3%
Yes 496 1090 1586
46.4% 81.2% 65.7%
Taxanes No 815 110 925 <.001
76.2% 8.2% 38.3%
Yes 255 1233 1488
23.8% 91.8% 61.7%
Other anti-HER2 No 1065 1299 2364 <.001
99.5% 96.7% 98%
Yes 5 44 49
0.5% 3.3% 2%
Systemic treatment in 1st line metastatic setting
Type of systemic treatment* HER2-double blockade + taxane 157 261 418 <.001
17.9% 22.1% 20.3%
HER2-double blockade + other 27 48 75
3.1% 4.1% 3.6%
TDM1 16 72 88
1.8% 6.1% 4.3%
At least 1 anti-HER2 505 674 1179
57.7% 57% 57.3%
No anti-HER2 170 127 297
19.4% 10.7% 14.4%
NA 195 161 356

*From diagnosis of the primary tumor.

Abbreviation: HR: hormone receptor status.