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Original Research

Thromboembolic Events in Patients with HER2-Negative, Hormone Receptor-Positive, Metastatic Breast Cancer Treated with Ribociclib Combined with Letrozole or Fulvestrant: A Real-World Data

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Pages 1033-1041 | Published online: 08 Mar 2022

Abstract

Purpose

Cyclin dependent kinase (CDK) 4/6 inhibitors (palbociclib, ribociclib and abemaciclib) modulate endocrine resistance and are integral treatment for patients with advanced hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer. Since their approval, CDK4/6 inhibitors are widely used in clinical practice. Thromboembolic events (TEE) were not a major issue in patients treated on clinical trials utilizing these agents. However, conflicting data started to emerge describing higher than expected rates of both arterial and venous thrombosis in patients treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors. In this study, we report our experience on TEE in patients treated with one of these agents (ribociclib) in real-world settings.

Patients and Methods

All consecutive patients with metastatic breast cancer (mBC) treated with ribociclib combined with letrozole or fulvestrant were retrospectively reviewed. All episodes of radiologically confirmed arterial or venous thrombosis were recorded. TEE was considered ribociclib-related if diagnosed while patients are on the drug, or within 4 weeks after the last dose.

Results

A total of 305 patients, median age (range), 49 (22–87) years were enrolled. All patients had metastatic disease, and most (n=241, 79.0%) were with visceral metastasis. Ribociclib was used for a median duration of 7 months (range: 1–45) and was used beyond the first-line setting in 110 (35.9%) patients. TEE were confirmed on 6 (1.97%) patients; 3 were pulmonary embolism, 2 cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), and one case of limb ischemia and all were symptomatic. Similar rates of TEE were noted prior to initiation, and after stopping ribociclib.

Conclusion

In real-world settings, breast cancer patients treated with ribociclib, combined with aromatase inhibitors or fulvestrant, may not be at higher risk for thromboembolic events. However, unusual sites of thrombosis, like CVST, may raise some concerns.

Introduction

Thromboembolism is commonly encountered in patients with cancer and is considered the second leading cause of mortality in this group of patients, too.Citation1,Citation2 Risk is much higher among patients on active anti-cancer therapy including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy and endocrine therapy.Citation3,Citation4 Multiple studies had shown that patients with TEE at diagnosis, or while on active therapy with anti-cancer drugs, have worse disease prognosis than cancer patients without.Citation5 Pathogenesis of thrombosis among cancer patients is complex and involves multiple factors related to the patients and underlying comorbidities, cancer itself and its therapy.Citation6Citation8

Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among women worldwide.Citation9Citation11 More than 70% of breast cancers are hormone receptor (HR)‐positive, for which endocrine therapy (ET) is the preferred initial treatment for patients with no visceral crisis, and for those with low burden disease.Citation12 Despite recent advances in early detection and awareness, 5–20% of patients present with de novo metastatic disease and another 20% will develop systemic relapse; months to years after their initial diagnosis.Citation13 Patients with low-volume disease and without visceral crisis are usually treated with ET. Until few years ago, tamoxifen, aromatase inhibitors and fulvestrant were the only available options for upfront or subsequent endocrine therapy. However, majority of such patients acquire resistance to endocrine therapy. Cyclin-dependent kinases 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitors modulate this resistance and have become a corner stone in the treatment regimens of patients with advanced HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. Since their first approval in 2015,Citation14 CDK4/6 inhibitors (palbociclib, ribociclib and abemaciclib) are widely used in clinical practice and had resulted in remarkable improvement in the way we treat metastatic HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer; both endocrine-resistant,Citation15Citation18 and endocrine sensitive tumors.Citation19Citation22 In addition to significant prolongation of time to disease progression, recent updates from the previously published studies have also shown significant improvement in overall survival (OS), as well.Citation17,Citation23 Such dramatic outcomes were seen regardless of the companion endocrine therapy;Citation24 aromatase inhibitors, or fulvestrant and in both pre- and postmenopausal women.Citation25,Citation26

Though TEE were not a major issue among patients treated on clinical trials with the three CDK4/6 inhibitors, conflicting data recently started to emerge describing higher than expected rates of both arterial and venous thrombosis in patients treated with these drugs.

In this study, we use real world data to study TEE rates in patients treated with ribociclib, one of these CDK4/6 inhibitors, in real-world settings.

Methods

The study is a retrospective analysis of individual patients’ data. All consecutive patients with pathologically confirmed diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer (mBC), treated and followed at our institution were reviewed. Patients should have been on ribociclib plus an aromatase inhibitor (letrozole) or fulvestrant for at least 3 months at time of data collection. Data were collected from patients’ electronic medical records and from radiology department archives. Clinical and pathological features known to increase the risk of TEE were reviewed. All image-confirmed arterial or venous thrombosis were recorded. Thromboembolic event was considered ribociclib related if diagnosed while patients on the drug or within 4 weeks after the last dose. Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) was diagnosed by Doppler ultrasound, while pulmonary embolism (PE) was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) angiogram. Routine screening for venous thromboembolism (VTE) among asymptomatic patients was not performed. However, incidental PE, found on imaging studies performed for other purposes, like staging, were counted.

The research was carried out in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki). Because of the retrospective nature of the study and the lack of personal details of participants that compromise anonymity, consent was waived and the study was approved by King Hussein Cancer Center Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Results

During the study period, 305 patients were enrolled. Median age (range) was 49 (22–87) years, and 74 (24.3%) were 60 years or older, while 52 (17.0%) were younger than 40 years at time of TEE diagnosis. Except for 3 males, all patients enrolled were females. Majority (n=245, 80.3%) of the tumors were infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC), while 46 (15.1%) were infiltrating lobular carcinoma (ILC), and 89 (29.2%) were high-grade (grade-3).

All patients had metastatic disease; 168 (55.1%) were de novo metastasis, while the others had a recurrent disease. Most (n=241, 79.0%) patients had visceral metastasis at time of ribociclib therapy, including liver (n=67, 22.0%), lung (n=79, 25.9%), brain (n=17, 5.6%) with 70 (23.0%) had 3 or more sites of metastasis. Though bone metastasis was reported on 241 (79.0%), it was the only site of metastasis (bone-only disease) in 64 (20.9%), .

Table 1 Patients’ Characteristics (n=305)

Ribociclib was used in combination with letrozole in first-line setting in 195 (63.9%) and with fulvestrant in 110 (35.9%) patients who failed one or more lines of ET, or chemotherapy. Median duration of ribociclib therapy was 7 (range 1–45) months, with 56 (18.4%) patients were on the drug for 18 or more months. A total of 178 (58.4%) had complete response (CR), partial response (PR) or stable disease (SD), .

Table 2 Endocrine Therapy

Episodes of TEE were confirmed in 6 (1.97%) patients; 3 were PE (two were bilateral), and all were symptomatic, while two patients had cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (lateral sagittal sinus and superior sagittal sinus). One patient had arterial thrombosis manifested as lower limb ischemia. Thromboembolic events were diagnosed as early as 15 days after starting ribociclib and ET, and as late as 6 months later. Among the 6 patients with TEE, other risk factors for TEE were identified including active smoking in 3, recent hospital admission (within 30 days of TEE) in one, and the recent cancer diagnosis (≤ 6 months) in 5 patients, . Seven (2.3%) more patients had a confirmed diagnosis of TEE prior to starting ribociclib therapy and another 4 (1.3%) patients had confirmed episodes after stopping the drug; range 2–7 months.

Table 3 Confirmed Cases of Thromboembolic Events

All patients were treated with low-molecular heparin (LMWH) with no complications. Given the small number of patients with TEE, no clinical or pathological predictors could be used to identify subgroups of patients at higher risk for TEE while on ribociclib.

Discussion

Since the introduction of CDK4/6 inhibitors, millions of patients with metastatic breast cancer were treated with these drugs in combination with aromatase inhibitors or fulvestrant. Common adverse events associated with such combination are familiar, predictable, manageable and were fully addressed in published clinical trials and clinical practice guidelines.Citation27,Citation28 However, thromboembolic events; venous or arterial were not part of these adverse events.

Patients with metastatic breast cancer are at higher risk for TEE by virtue of their age and advanced-stage disease, which may affect their mobility and may result in frequent hospitalization. Additionally, both tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors, in their own, may increase such risk. Recent reports about the higher incidence of both arterial and venous thrombosis among such patients are of a concern. However, such events are not as obvious as other commonly encountered adverse events with these drugs like neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, anemia, fatigue, diarrhea and elevated liver enzymes.Citation29,Citation30

One meta-analysis included 8 randomized controlled trials and a total of 4557 eligible patients. The study arms were ET plus a CDK4/6 inhibitor (palbociclib, ribociclib or abemaciclib) or ET plus placebo. Venous thromboembolic events were recorded in 56 (2%) in the CDK4/6 inhibitor plus ET arm, compared to only 10 (0.5%) in the control arm; the pooled relative risk (RR) for VTE was 2.62 [95% Confidence Interval (CI) 1.21–5.65; P= 0.01]. Over a median follow-up of up to 36 months, RR increased to 3.18 (95% CI 1.22–8.24; P= 0.02). Subgroup analysis showed that most of the reported VTE were among patients treated with abemaciclib (RR=6.77, 95% CI 1.61–28.43), less with ribociclib (RR=2.19, 95% CI 0.80–5.97) and palbociclib (RR=2.33, 95% CI 0.36–15.19), .Citation31

Table 4 Summary of Published Studies

Another study used the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pharmacovigilance database to retrospectively assess TEE in real world practice.Citation32 The study again raised a concern about a potential class effect for venous thrombosis, especially PE. However, a distinctive risk for arterial events were noted in patients treated with ribociclib, including myocardial infarction (MI), cerebral ischemia, transient ischemic attacks (TIA), paraplegia, and paraparesis, which tend to happen sooner than the other CDK4/6 inhibitors; 1 vs 6 months, respectively. The study also showed that abemaciclib was associated with a higher risk for DVT, which was well noted in many randomized clinical trials,Citation33 including the more recently published monarchE study, which used abemaciclib for high-risk node positive early-stage (nonmetastatic) breast cancer; VTE rate was 2.3% in patients randomized to the abemaciclib arm compared to only 0.5% in the control arm.Citation34 Palbociclib, on the other hand, was associated with higher risk of cerebrovascular accidents and cardiovascular comorbidities.

Different conclusions were drawn from another study that also used the US FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database between January 2015 and December 2020. The study highlighted the possible association between CDK4/6 inhibitors and VTE. Patients treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors had 631 venous thromboembolic events [Reporting odd ratio (ROR) 1.44, 95% CI 1.33–1.55]. Risk was almost similar for both palbociclib (ROR 1.42, 95% CI 1.09–1.88) and ribociclib (ROR 1.41, 95% CI 1.29–1.54). Contrary to the previous study, abemaciclib was associated with the lowest risk (ROR 0.92, 95% CI 0.72–1.17).Citation35

Our data, utilizing ribociclib with letrozole or fulvestrant, may not raise significant concerns regarding venous or arterial thrombosis. The few reported TEE are in line with what clinicians usually see in routine daily practice. Additionally, our TEE rates were similar to what patients had encountered prior to, and after stopping CDK4/6 inhibitors. However, the two cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis among a total of 6 confirmed cases of TEE, worth emphasis and closer look in future studies. Both patients were on aromatase inhibitors (letrozole), and one of them was also on Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone agonists (GnRHa), too. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is relatively rare;Citation36 puerperium,Citation37 contraception, hyperthyroidism,Citation38 meningitis, hypercoagulable state,Citation39 meningioma, multiple myeloma, Behcet’s disease,Citation40 Crohn, ulcerative colitis,Citation41 and epidural anesthesia are among the known causes, and none were identified in our patients.

Our study, though represent a real-world data, is not without limitations. The retrospective nature and absence of randomization may miss some of the thromboembolic events. Additionally, our data is relevant to only one drug in this class of medications (ribociclib), and findings may not be generalized for the other two CDK4/6 inhibitors; palbociclib and abemaciclib. A better approach to answer the question under discussion is to collect data from all phase-3 studies on all CDK4/6 inhibitors (ribociclib, palbociclib and abemaciclib) and utilize artificial intelligence approach to stratify patients into different risk levels for TEE to better predict the occurrence of TEE utilizing clinical and biomarker data.

Conclusions

In real-world settings, breast cancer patients treated with ribociclib, in combination with aromatase inhibitors or fulvestrant, may not be at higher risk for arterial or venous thromboembolic events. Our TEE rates are similar to what patients had encountered prior to, and after stopping CDK4/6 inhibitors. However, the unusual sites of TEE reported in our cohort raises some concerns, and worth further investigations.

Abbreviations

CDK, cyclin dependent kinase; CI, confidence interval; CR, complete response; CT, computed tomography; CVST, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis; DVT, deep vein thrombosis; ET, endocrine therapy; FAERS, Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System; FDA, Food and Drug Administration; GnRHa, gonadotropin releasing hormone agonists; HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; HR, hormone receptors; IDC, infiltrating ductal carcinoma; ILC, infiltrating lobular carcinoma; IRB, Institutional Review Board; LMWH, low-molecular heparin; mBC, metastatic breast cancer; OS, overall survival; PE, pulmonary embolism; PFS, progression-free survival; PR, partial response; ROR, reporting odd ratio; SD, stable disease; TEE, thromboembolic events; VTE, venous thromboembolism.

Data Sharing Statement

Data will be made available, as per the journal and publisher rules and regulations, from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Ethics Approval and Informed Consent

This research was done in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and international research standards and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. The study was approved by King Hussein Cancer Center Institutional Review Board (IRB). Because of the retrospective nature of the study and the lack of personal details of participants that compromise anonymity, consent was waived.

Consent for Publication

Given the retrospective nature of the study and the lack of personal details of participants that compromise anonymity, consent for publication was not sought from the participants, but obtained from the hospital administration.

Author Contributions

All authors contributed to data analysis, drafting or revising the article, have agreed on the journal to which the article was submitted, gave final approval of the version to be published, and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the help of our librarians, Mrs. Alice Haddadin and Mrs. Lubna Al-Useily.

Disclosure

The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

Additional information

Funding

No grants were received from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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