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Amol Akhade: Final Overall Survival Results from the APHINITY Trial to be Presented at ESMOBreast25 
May 14, 2025, 10:06

Amol Akhade: Final Overall Survival Results from the APHINITY Trial to be Presented at ESMOBreast25 

Amol Akhade, Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Suyog Cancer Clinics, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“[JUST IN] Final Overall Survival results from the APHINITY trial to be presented at ESMOBreast25 
11.3 years of follow-up now confirms what we hoped for:
Adding Pertuzumab to standard Trastuzumab + chemotherapy leads to a statistically significant OS benefit in high-risk HER2+ early breast cancer.
KEY RESULTS
  • Overall Survival (OS):
  •  HR 0.83 (95% CI: 0.69–1.00), p = 0.044
  • 10-year OS: 91.6% (Pertuzumab) vs 89.8% (Placebo)
  •  Absolute gain: 1.8%
Invasive Disease-Free Survival (IDFS):
  • HR 0.79 (95% CI: 0.68–0.92)
  •  10-year IDFS: 87.2% vs 83.8%
  •  Absolute gain: 3.4%
Subgroup Analysis: OS
  • Node-positive: HR 0.79
  •  Node-negative: HR 0.99 No benefit
  •  HR-positive: HR 0.76
  •  HR-negative: HR 0.94 No benefit
Subgroup Analysis: IDFS
  • Node-positive: HR 0.74
  •  Node-negative: HR 1.01 No benefit
  • HR-positive: HR 0.75
  • HR-negative: HR 0.87 Not statistically significant
Safety:
  • Primary cardiac events <1%
  • No new long-term cardiac concerns
Take-home message:
  • Pertuzumab remains the standard of care in node-positive HER2+ early breast cancer
  • No OS or IDFS benefit in node-negative or HR-negative subgroups
  • These final long-term data provide clarity on optimal patient selection
Kudos to the APHINITY investigators for delivering decade-long data that refines our approach to HER2+ disease.”

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