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Poster Display session 1

1735 - mTOR inhibition in the treatment of resistant breast cancer

Date

28 Sep 2019

Session

Poster Display session 1

Topics

Basic Science

Tumour Site

Breast Cancer

Presenters

María Rodriguez

Citation

Annals of Oncology (2019) 30 (suppl_5): v1-v24. 10.1093/annonc/mdz238

Authors

M.J. Rodriguez1, M.C. Perrone2, M. Riggio2, V. Novaro2

Author affiliations

  • 1 Laboratorio De Proteinas Quinasas Y Cancer, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental, 1428 - Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires/AR
  • 2 Laboratorio De Proteinas Quinasas Y Cancer, Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental, 1428 - Buenos Aires/AR

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Abstract 1735

Background

Breast cancer is the malignant neoplasm with the highest incidence and mortality in women worldwide. Approximately 70% of breast tumors express hormone receptors (HR+). Although antiestrogen tamoxifen has been successful for HR+ breast cancer treatment, a significant amount of these tumors eventually develop resistance. In these cases, the addition of CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib has shown clinical effectiveness. However, there is still a need to elucidate the mechanisms underlying resistance to these treatments in order to design better combination therapies for each case and improve patient outcomes. The aim of this work was to study these mechanisms using cell variants generated to mimic what occurs in the clinic.

Methods

We developed three cell lines with acquired resistance to tamoxifen (T47D-TR), palbociclib (T47D-PR) and tamoxifen+palbociclib (T47D-TPR), by exposing T47D wild type cells to progressively increasing concentrations of the drugs over a period of about 12 months.

Results

Western blot analysis showed decreased levels of HR, higher activation levels of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway, along with greater levels of cell cycle associated proteins in all resistant cell lines. The resistant tumors generated as xenografts in immunosuppressed mice showed more invasive characteristics than those generated from the T47D-wt cell line, despite the lower growth rates showed by all resistant lines. Finally, we analyzed the response to palbociclib and to PI3K/Akt/mTOR inhibitors in the resistant cell lines. We found that all resistant lines were sensitive to BKM-120 (PI3K inhibitor) and to rapamycin (mTOR inhibitor), and the combination with palbociclib showed an additive inhibitory effect in both cases. However, the sensitivity of the resistant cells was greater to rapamycin than to BKM-120.

Conclusions

Taken together, our results support the use of mTOR inhibitors, rather than PI3K inhibitors, in combination with CDK4/6 inhibitors in the treatment of both tamoxifen and palbociclib resistant tumors.

Clinical trial identification

Editorial acknowledgement

Legal entity responsible for the study

FONCYT-INC-CONICET.

Funding

FONCYT-INC-CONICET.

Disclosure

All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.

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