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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 26.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2018 Aug 15;379(8):753–763. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1802905

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics (ITT Population).

TALA (N = 287) Overall PCT (N = 144)
Age, median (range), y 45 (27.0–84.0) 50 (24.0–88.0)
 <50 y, No. % 182 (63.4) 67 (46.5)
Female, % 98.6 97.9
ECOG PS 0 / 1 / 2, % 53.3 / 44.3 / 2.1 58.3 / 39.6 / 1.4
Stage of breast cancer
 Locally advanced, No. % 15 (5.2) 9 (6.3)
 Metastatic, No. % 271 (94.4) 135 (93.8)
Measurable disease by investigator, No. (%) 219 (76.3) 114 (79.2)
History of CNS metastases, No. (%) 43 (15.0) 20 (13.9)
Visceral disease, No. (%) 200 (69.7) 103 (71.5)
Hormone receptor status, No. (%)
 TNBC 130 (45.3) 60 (41.7)
 HR+ 157 (54.7) 84 (58.3)
BRCA status, No. (%)a
BRCA1+ 133 (46.3) 63 (43.8)
BRCA2+ 154 (53.7) 81 (56.3)
Disease-free interval (initial diagnosis to aBC) <12 months, No. (%) 108 (37.6) 42 (29.2)
Prior adjuvant/neoadjuvant therapy, No. (%) 238 (82.9) 121 (84.0)
No. of prior hormonal therapy-based regimens (for patients with HR+ BC), median (range) 2.0 (0–6)
(n = 157)
2.0 (0–6)
(n = 84)
Prior platinum therapy, No. (%) 46 (16.0) 30 (20.8)
Prior cytotoxic regimens for aBC, No. (%)
 0 111 (38.7) 54 (37.5)
 1 107 (37.3) 54 (37.5)
 2 57 (19.9) 28 (19.4)
 ≥3 12 (4.2) 8 (5.6)

Abbreviations: aBC = advanced breast cancer; BRCA = breast cancer susceptibility gene; CNS = central nervous system; ECOG PS = Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status; ITT = intent-to-treat; HR = hormone receptor; PCT = physician’s choice of therapy; TALA = talazoparib; TNBC = triple-negative breast cancer.

a

Only 10 patients (6 and 4 patients in the talazoparib and control arms, respectively) were identified as having a suspected deleterious mutation. The remainder who underwent MYRIAD assessment carried a known pathogenic variation.