Abstract
Background
Dacomitinib, an irreversible panHER inhibitor, shows significant preclinical antitumor activity in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive gastric cancer (GC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical activity of dacomitinib and discover potential biomarkers in HER2-positive GC patients.
Methods
We enrolled previously treated advanced HER2-positive GC [HER2 FISH (+) or HER2 IHC 3+] patients. The patients received dacomitinib 45 mg once daily.
Results
A total of 27 patients were enrolled. The number of prior chemotherapy regimens was 1 in 7 patients (26 %), 2 in 9 patients (33 %), and more than 2 in 11 patients (41 %). Seven patients had received prior anti-HER2 therapy. The 4-month progression-free survival (PFS) rate was 22.2 % and median PFS was 2.1 months (95 % CI, 2.3–3.4) There were 2 partial response (PRs) and 9 stable disease (SDs), resulting in 7.4 % (95 % CI, 0–17.5 %) of response rate (RR) and 40.7 % (95 % CI, 21.9–59.6 %) of disease control rate (DCR). Eleven patients (41 %) showed some degree of tumor shrinkage. Overall survival was 7.1 months (95 % CI, 4.4–9.8). The most common toxicities were skin rash, diarrhea, and fatigue, most of which were grade 1 or 2. The Ctrough of dacomitinib was lower in gastrectomy patients than nongastrectomy patients. Higher serum levels of HER2 extracellular domain (ECD) and lower levels of soluble E-cadherin (sECAD) correlated with higher dacomitinib activity.
Conclusions
Dacomitinib functions as a single agent in HER2-positive GC patients with a tolerable safety profile. HER2 ECD and sECAD have the potential to be biomarkers for patient selection in a panHER inhibition strategy for HER2-positive GC. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01152853).
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Introduction
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fifth most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer death worldwide [1]. It has been shown that chemotherapy prolongs overall survival (OS) of patients with advanced GC compared to best supportive care [2]. Combinations of fluoropyrimidines and platinum agents are the most widely used cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens [3]; however, the median OS of advanced GC remains approximately 1 year.
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is a member of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family, which is involved in cancer cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation [4]. HER2 is overexpressed in 20–25 % of breast cancers and is related to aggressive tumor biology and poor patient outcomes. Targeting HER2 in breast cancer has been very successful, and this approach has become the standard of care for HER2-positive breast cancer [5].
In gastric cancer, HER2 is overexpressed or amplified in 6–35 % of cases [6, 7]. To date, it is unclear whether HER2 positivity is associated with a poor prognosis in GC [8]. In HER2-positive advanced GC, the combination of trastuzumab with cisplatin and a fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy significantly improves OS statistically and clinically as compared with chemotherapy alone as first-line therapy [9], and it has become the standard of care. Even though HER2 positivity identifies patients who might obtain benefits from trastuzumab, HER2 overexpression alone does not adequately predict response to trastuzumab. Some HER2-positive GC patients show primary or secondary resistance to trastuzumab [10]. Lapatinib is a dual EGFR/HER2 tyrosine kinase inhibitor, and a combination of lapatinib and capecitabine has been reported to be effective in trastuzumab-resistant HER2-positive breast cancer patients [11, 12]. In spite of this activity in breast cancer, a combination of lapatinib and chemotherapy in HER2-positive GC failed to show clinical activity in a second-line or even a first-line setting [13, 14].
Dacomitinib (PF-00299804), a panHER inhibitor, irreversibly binds to the adenosine triphosphate domain of each of the three kinase-active members of the HER family: HER1, HER2, and HER4. Dacomitinib inhibits proliferation of HER2-positive breast cancer cells resistant to trastuzumab or lapatinib [15]. Dacomitinib also shows a very strong preclinical antitumor efficacy in HER2-positive GC cells [16]. Neratinib, another panHER inhibitor, shows promising clinical activity as a single agent in HER2-positive breast cancer patients who are pretreated with trastuzumab [17]. To date, there has been no report of the clinical activity of panHER inhibitor in HER2-positive GC patients.
Based on our preclinical study of dacomitinib in GC and clinical observation with neratinib in HER2-positive breast cancer, we hypothesized that dacomitinib might show clinical activity in HER2-positive GC patients as a single agent. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of dacomitinib monotherapy in HER2-positive GC patients. We also aimed to assess the pharmacokinetic variation of dacomitinib according to gastrectomy states and to elucidate the potential biomarkers for a panHER inhibition strategy in GC.
Patients and methods
This was a multicenter, single-arm, open-label phase II study. It was approved by the institutional review boards of all participating centers and was registered with the USA National Library of Medicine (ClinicalTrials.gov) as NCT01152853. All studies were conducted according to guidelines (Declaration of Helsinki) for biomedical research.
Patient eligibility criteria
The following inclusion criteria were used for patient selection: (1) histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the stomach or gastroesophageal junction; (2) inoperable locally advanced or recurrent and/or metastatic disease, not amenable to curative therapy; (3) HER2 positivity defined as (a) IHC (immunohistochemistry) 3+ and/or (b) HER2 FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) (+, HER2/CEP17 ≥2.0); (4) failure of response to at least one chemotherapy regimen (trastuzumab or lapatinib-pretreated patients were eligible); (5) measurable or evaluable disease based on the RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors) criteria, version 1.1; (6) ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) performance status of 0–2; and (7) adequate organ function including cardiac function [left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥50 %]. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. Important exclusion criteria were (1) known active brain metastases; (2) prior chemotherapy or surgery <4 weeks before study enrollment; (3) intestinal obstruction or impending obstruction; (4) cardiac arrhythmia (grade ≥2), atrial fibrillation of any grade, or a QTc interval >470 ms.
Treatment
Dacomitinib was given at a dose of 45 mg daily without interruption. The cycles were repeated every 28 days. The next cycle was delayed until the following criteria were satisfied: ANC >1,000 cells/μl, platelet count >75,000 cells/μl, and nonhematological toxicity related to dacomitinib returning to baseline levels or grade 1 or below. Dacomitinib administration was interrupted for patients with grade 3 hematological or nonhematological toxicity and resumed at one dose level lower after toxicity was reduced to grade 1. Dose modifications were performed in response to adverse events where lower dose levels included 30 and 15 mg daily, subsequently. Dose reduction was required for patients with grade 2 pneumonitis. Dacomitinib was permanently discontinued if a patient was unable to tolerate the drug at a dose of 15 mg daily or if drug-related toxicity required treatment interruption for >4 weeks. Treatment was discontinued for patients with progressive disease, individuals who experienced unacceptable adverse events, or patients who withdrew consent.
Assessment of therapeutic efficacy and toxicity
Tumor responses were assessed every 8 weeks or earlier in patients with suspected progression, based on the RECIST criteria (version 1.1). Computed tomography (CT) scans were conducted at least 4 weeks after the first scan to confirm complete or partial responses. The primary endpoint for measuring treatment efficacy was the 4-month PFS rate (4-month PFSR). PFS was defined as the time between the start of treatment and disease progression or death from any cause. Secondary endpoints for evaluating efficacy included response rates, disease control rates, duration of response, and OS. Overall survival was estimated from the date of the first treatment to patient death or the date of the last follow-up visit. Safety was assessed according to the NCI-CTCAE (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) (version 4.0).
Statistical analysis
The main purpose of this study was to assess the 4-month PFSR. The H0 (null hypothesis) expected a 4-month PFSR of 20 % or less, and the H1 (alternative hypothesis) expected a 4-month PFSR of 35 % or more. The rationale for this hypothesis was based on our previous study of advanced gastric cancer patients. The PFS of first-line chemotherapy, second-line chemotherapy, third-line chemotherapy, and fourth-line chemotherapy were 4.36 months (95 % CI, 4.03–4.71), 2.67 months (95 % CI, 2.32–3.01), 2.57 months (95 % CI, 2.25–2.88), and 2.17 months (95 % CI, 1.77–2.56) respectively. Because most of the patients eligible for this current study had a high probability of pretreatment with one or two kinds of chemotherapies, we set the H0 as 20 % 4-month PFSR. As we expected that dacomitinib could improve the 4-month PFSR by 75 %, we set the H1 as 4-month PFSR of 35 %. To test these hypotheses, 25 evaluable patients were required to provide 80 % power with a one-sided significance level of 0.2, and assuming a 15 % dropout rate, an enrollment of 28 patients was required. The intention-to-treat population was defined as the population that included patients who were dosed at least once. Per protocol population was defined as the population who received the dacomitinib for at least 8 weeks. Survival and all safety analyses were carried out on the intention-to-treat population. The objective response was assessed on a per protocol population. OS and PFS were analyzed using the Kaplan–Meier method. The survival results were expressed as the median value with a 95 % confidence interval (CI).
Pharmacokinetics assessment
We measured the plasma concentration of dacomitinib at baseline (within 7 days before treatment initiation), C1D14 (cycle 1, day 14), and at C2D1 and C2D14, before the intake of dacomitinib. Plasma dacomitinib concentrations were determined using a validated, sensitive high-performance liquid chromatography–atomic pressure ionization tandem mass spectrometric method in compliance with Pfizer Standard Operating Procedures.
Biomarker assessment
We collected blood samples from all patients for biomarker analysis at baseline, C2D1, and end of treatment (EOT). Quantitation of HER2 extracellular domain (HER2 ECD) and soluble E-cadherin (sECAD) in serum was conducted by sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using a HER-2/neu ELISA Kit (Wilex, #64898760) and a Human sE-Cadherin ELISA Kit (R & D Systems, #DCADE0), respectively.
Results
Patient characteristics
From November 2010 to April 2011, 28 patients were enrolled in the study. One patient withdrew his informed consent before treatment and 27 patients underwent dacomitinib treatment. The median age was 61 years (range, 43–80 years); 9 patients had ECOG performance status 0 and 16 patients had ECOG 1. The number of previous chemotherapy exposures was 1 in 5 patients (19 %), 2 in 10 patients (37 %), 3 in 7 patients (26 %), and >3 in 5 patients (19 %) (Table 1).
The HER2 status was IHC3+ in 17 patients (63 %), IHC2+/FISH+ in 8 patients (30 %) and IHC1+/FISH+ in 2 patients (7 %). Seven patients were exposed to prior anti-HER2 treatment (2 trastuzumab, 5 lapatinib). Thirteen patients had undergone prior gastrectomy (4 total gastrectomies and 9 subtotal gastrectomies). Safety and tumor response were evaluated in all 27 patients.
The median follow-up time period was 7.1 months (95 % CI, 5.6–9.6 months). All patients discontinued the treatment because of disease progression. A total of 84 cycles of treatment were delivered to the patients. The median number of cycles per patient was 2 (range, 1–6 cycles).
Efficacy
Partial response was observed in 2 patients, and 9 patients showed stable disease. The overall response rate was 7 % (95 % CI, 0–17.5 %), and the disease control rate was 40.7 % (95 % CI, 21.9–59.6 %) (Supplementary Table 1). Eleven patients (41 %) showed some degree of tumor shrinkage (Fig. 1). Among these 11, 1 patient showed disease progression because of a new lesion despite the shrinkage of target lesions. The median PFS was 2.1 months (95 % CI, 2.3–3.4 months), and the median OS was 7.1 months (95 % CI, 4.4–9.8 months) (Fig. 2). The 4-month PFSR was 22.2 %. Clinical efficacy did not differ by age, performance status, number of previous chemotherapy treatments, HER2 status, or prior anti-HER2 treatment (Supplementary Table 2). The 4-month PFSR was 25 % in patients with prior exposure to anti-HER2 treatment, and that of anti-HER2 treatment-naive patients was 21.1 % (HR 1.7, p = 0.711).
Safety
The most common adverse events (AEs; all grades) were rash (74 %), diarrhea (67 %), fatigue (37 %), stomatitis (26 %), and nausea (26 %) (Table 2). The grade 3/4 AEs were rash (7 %), diarrhea (4 %), hypoglycemia (4 %), and hyponatremia (4 %). There were no treatment-related deaths.
Pharmacokinetics
Observed trough plasma concentration (Ctrough) ranged from 20 to 96 ng/ml on C1D14, 10 to 105 ng/ml on C2D1, and 15 to 100 ng/ml on C2D14. The Ctrough of patients with gastrectomy was lower than that of patients without gastrectomy (Fig. 3).
Biomarker analysis
The baseline serum level of HER2 ECD correlated well with the HER2 expression in tumor tissue (Fig. 4a). The baseline mean level of HER2 ECD was highest in patients with a PR response, which was followed by SD with tumor shrinkage, SD without tumor shrinkage, and PD (Fig. 4b). In PR patients, the HER2 ECD level decreased on C2D1 and then increased dramatically at EOT (Fig. 4c). In contrast to the HER2 ECD, the baseline level of sECAD (soluble E-cadherin) was highest in patients with a PD response, which was followed by SD without tumor shrinkage, SD with tumor shrinkage, and PR patients (Fig. 4b). When we consider the baseline levels of both HER2 ECD and sECAD, patients with low-HER2 ECD and high sECAD did not show any tumor shrinkage (Fig. 4d). In PR patients, the sECAD level decreased on C2D1 and then increased at EOT (Fig. 4e).
Discussion
We tested dacomitinib monotherapy in HER2-positive GC patients who failed to respond to prior chemotherapies. Most (82 %) of the study population received dacomitinib as a third-line or later treatment setting, with 44 % of the study population treated with dacomitinib as a fourth line and beyond. Considering the population characteristics, the PFS of 2.1 months and OS of 7.1 months are acceptable. Interestingly, with dacomitinib monotherapy, two patients showed PR, 41 % of the patients showed some degree of tumor shrinkage, and 41 % showed a disease control rate (PR + SD). With lapatinib monotherapy, when administered to the previously treated HER2-positive GC patients, there were no cases of PR; the disease control rate was only 10 %, the median PFS was 1.3 months (95 % CI, 1.2–1.7 months), and the median OS was 4.7 months (95 % CI, 1.8 months–NA), which led to the conclusion that lapatinib failed to show sufficient activity as a monotherapy in HER2-positive GC [18]. Taken together, the findings regarding the activity of dacomitinib monotherapy are encouraging in HER2-positive GC patients. This result of our hypothesis-generating small study provides evidence that the strategy of panHER inhibition might be feasible in HER2-positive GC patients, as is the case of neratinib in HER2-positive breast cancer cases [17].
The safety profile was consistent with a previous report using dacomitinib, and it was generally well tolerated [19]. The pharmacokinetics (PKs) of dacomitinib have been evaluated in Western nation patients, Korean patients, and Japanese patients in previous phase I studies [20, 21]. The PK parameters of dacomitinib were similar across ethnicity). In our study, we conducted the PK evaluation because the literature contains no studies assessing whether a gastrectomy might affect the PKs of dacomitinib. In general, the Ctrough of our study was slightly lower than that of Japanese patients, although the variation was similar [21]. Patients who had undergone a gastrectomy showed a lower level of Ctrough than those who had not. These data are the first PK data of dacomitinib focused on gastrectomy status. In previous PK studies, dacomitinib had an oral bioavailability of 80 % following a 45-mg dose and exhibited linear kinetics following single or multiple doses [20, 22]. Food has only a mild effect on absorption, but concomitant administration with antacids reduces absorption of dacomitinib [23]. This finding is consistent with our finding in gastrectomy patients because the gastric pH is increased by subtotal or total gastrectomy. Interindividual variability of dacomitinib is high (coefficient of variation up to 50 %), in part the result of the low solubility of dacomitinib (BCS class II compound with pH-dependent solubility) [23, 24].
To elucidate the candidate biomarkers for a panHER inhibitor in GC, we measured the serial serum levels of HER2 ECD and sECAD. Soluble truncated HER2 protein can be released through a proteolytic mechanism termed ECD shedding and also by alternative splicing of the HER2 transcript. Shedding of HER2 ECD significantly increased tyrosine kinase activity and considerably promoted the activity of N-terminally truncated HER2 (p95HER2), which is 10- to 100-fold more oncogenic than full-length HER2. Only a few studies have investigated the concordance between serum HER2 ECD level and tissue HER2 expression. In our study, the serum level of HER2 ECD correlated well with the level of HER2 protein expression in GC tumor tissue (Fig. 4a). Interestingly, the higher the baseline level of HER2 ECD, the more tumor shrinkage was obtained by dacomitinib (Fig. 4b). The predictive role of HER2 ECD for trastuzumab treatment has been debated in breast cancer [25] and has not been widely studied to date in GC [26]. Our study is the first report on the predictive role of HER2 ECD for panHER inhibitor treatment in GC. Furthermore, in our patients who showed PR, the level of HER2 ECD showed an early dramatic reduction at C2D1 and then increased dramatically at the time of disease progression. A similar observation was reported in a case of lung cancer treated with dacomitinib [27]. This finding suggests that measurement of serum HER2 ECD might give us predictive information regarding a panHER inhibitor in HER2-positive GC; however, this should be validated by further large-scale studies.
E-cadherin is a hemophilic adhesion molecule that is expressed at the basolateral membrane of epithelial tissues. The ectodermal shedding of a stable 80-kDa sECAD has been shown to increase in the serum of cancer patients [28]; sECAD is disruptive to cell contact by inducing scattering and eroding the adherens junction by antagonizing full-length E-cadherin. EGF promotes the shedding of sECAD in an ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloprotease) family member-dependent manner, and this sECAD may act in EGFR signaling independently of traditional EGFR ligands [29, 30]. Furthermore, in growth factor deprivation states, ADAM15 cleaves E-cadherin and this sECAD is found in complex with the HER2 and HER3 receptors. These interactions contributed to stabilize HER2 heterodimerization [31]. We previously reported that dacomitinib acts to block the EGFR/HER2, HER2/HER3, and HER3/HER4 heterodimer formation, as well as the association of HER3 with p85a16. In accordance with our preclinical finding, in this clinical study, when the patient’s baseline serum level of sECAD was higher, less tumor shrinkage was obtained by dacomitinib (Fig. 4b).
When we take into consideration both HER2 ECD and sECAD, patients with HER2 ECD-low and sECAD-high did not show any tumor shrinkage (Fig. 4d). We suggest that these HER2 ECDs and sECADs might be candidates as patient selection biomarkers for dacomitinib treatment in HER2-positive GC. With a small sample size, it is difficult to make conclusive statements on the meaning of HER2 ECD and sECAD in HER2-positive GC. However, the findings observed in this study could provide information that is helpful for hypothesis generation for a future biomarker study in HER2-positive GC.
In conclusion, dacomitinib, an irreversible panHER inhibitor, functions as a single agent in HER2-positive GC patients and has an acceptable safety profile. HER2 ECD and sECAD have the potential to be biomarkers for patient selection in a panHER inhibition strategy for HER2-positive GC.
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We thank the patients included in the current study. We also thank Pfizer for the supply of dacomitinib.
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Conception and design: D. Y. O., Y. J. B.
Financial support and administrative support: D. Y. O., Y. J. B.
Provision of study materials or patients: D. Y. O., K. W. L., J. Y. C., W. K. K., S. A. I., J. W. K., Y. J. B.
Collection and assembly of data: D. Y. O., Y. J. B.
Data analysis and interpretation: D. Y. O., Y. J. B.
Drafting of the manuscript: D. Y. O., Y. J. B.
Critical revision of the manuscript for technical content: D. Y. O., K. W. L., J. Y. C., W. K. K., S. A. I., J. W. K., Y. J. B.
Final approval of manuscript: D. Y. O., K. W. L., J. Y. C., W. K. K., S. A. I., J. W. K., Y. J. B.
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Oh, DY., Lee, KW., Cho, J.Y. et al. Phase II trial of dacomitinib in patients with HER2-positive gastric cancer. Gastric Cancer 19, 1095–1103 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10120-015-0567-z
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