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Absolute lymphocyte count predicts efficacy of palbociclib in patients with metastatic luminal breast cancer
Kobayashi Takayuki tkobayashi.g@gmail.com

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Nishimura Meiko 1
Hosonaga Mari 1
Kizawa Rika 1
Kawai Saori 1
Aoyama Yosuke 1
Ozaki Yukinori 1
Fukada Ippei 1
Hara Fumikata 1
Takano Toshimi 1
Ueno Takayuki 2
1 https://ror.org/00bv64a69 grid.410807.a 0000 0001 0037 4131 Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31 Ariake, Koto-Ku, Tokyo, 135-8550 Japan
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Background

Absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) is a predictive and prognostic factor for various tumor types, including breast cancer. Palbociclib is a CDK4/6 inhibitor widely used for the treatment of metastatic estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. However, predictive biomarkers of the efficacy of palbociclib remain unelucidated. We conducted a retrospective study to examine the predictive value of the baseline ALC in patients treated with palbociclib.

Methods

The medical records of patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer treated with palbociclib plus hormonal therapy between December 2017 and December 2021 were analyzed retrospectively. The cutoff value of ALC was set at 1800 cells/μL at the initiation of palbociclib treatment. The clinical benefit rate (CBR) was defined as the rate of complete or partial response or stable disease for at least 6 months. Progression-free survival (PFS) rates were estimated using the Kaplan–Meier method and compared using the log-rank test. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed using Cox proportional hazards regression.

Results

All of the 202 patients were women, with a median age of 59 years and a performance status (PS) of ≤ 2. The median numbers of lines of chemotherapy and endocrine therapy before palbociclib treatment were 0 (range, 0–9) and 1 (range, 0–7), respectively. Fifty-one patients had liver metastases. Forty-six patients tested negative for progesterone receptor (PgR) expression. The median follow-up time was 9.1 months. The CBR was significantly higher in the ALC-high group than in the ALC-low group (79% vs. 60%; P = 0.018). The median PFS was significantly longer in the ALC-high group than in the ALC-low group (26.8 months vs. 8.4 moths, respectively; P = 0.000013). ALC, age, PS, PgR status, prior chemotherapy, prior endocrine therapy, and liver metastasis were entered into the multivariate analysis. ALC was identified as an independent factor for PFS (P = 0.00085), along with liver metastasis (P = 0.0020), PS (P = 0.026), and prior endocrine therapy (P = 0.019).

Conclusion

ALC can serve as a predictor of palbociclib efficacy in patients with metastatic ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

Keywords

Absolute lymphocyte count
Metastatic estrogen receptor positive HER-2 negative breast cancer
Palbociclib
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pmcBackground

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy and leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide. In 2020, 2.26 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer and approximately 700,000 died from the disease [1]. Approximately 20–30% of patients with early breast cancer experience tumor recurrence in distant organs despite receiving curative surgery with adjuvant systemic therapy and radiotherapy, and this condition is still recognized as an incurable disease [2, 3]. Therefore, advancement in treatment strategies, such as the development of new drugs and biomarkers, is urgently required.

Peripheral absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) is recognized as a sensitive parameter reflecting the systemic immune status in various diseases, such as infections, trauma, respiratory disorders, autoimmune diseases, and malignant neoplasms [4, 5]. ALC has been widely evaluated as a predictive and prognostic biomarker of various malignant neoplasms, including breast cancer [6–22].

Palbociclib is a highly selective CDK4/6 inhibitor, which in combination with hormonal therapy, has been shown to be effective in treating metastatic estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, that is, metastatic luminal breast cancer (mLBC) [23, 24] and has now found widespread application in routine clinical practice. However, most patients eventually develop tumor progression, and some initially show resistance to palbociclib. Unfortunately, there is no practical or easy-to-use biomarker other than ER positivity for identifying patients who respond to palbociclib in clinical settings. This study aimed to examine the predictive value of ALC at baseline for patients with mLBC treated with palbociclib.

Methods

Patients

We retrospectively analyzed the data of registered patients with mLBC who were treated with palbociclib at the Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (JFCR) between December 2017 and December 2021. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR (2023-GB-051), which waived the requirement for informed consent.

Data collection

All patients underwent routine blood tests before starting palbociclib treatment in routine clinical practice, and complete blood counts, including ALC, were obtained using an automated hematology analyzer (Sysmex XN-9000; Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, Japan). Positivity for ER, progesterone receptor (PgR), and HER2 was defined according to the ASCO/CAP guidelines [25]. Briefly, the ER and PgR status was determined to be positive if the samples showed at least 1% positive invasive tumor nuclei on immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining. The HER2 status was defined as positive if the IHC assay score was 3 + and/or HER2-gene overexpression was confirmed by dual-color in situ hybridization. Baseline clinicopathological characteristics were extracted from the electronic medical records.

Statistical analysis

The cutoff value of ALC was determined according to receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis using the Youden index. Comparisons between the treatment groups were performed using the chi-squared and Fisher’s exact tests. The clinical benefit rate (CBR) was defined as the rate of complete (CR) or partial response (PR) or stable disease (SD) for at least 6 months, using RECIST ver1.1. Progression-free survival (PFS) was defined as the time from treatment initiation to the date of disease progression or the date of the last follow-up of patients who were alive at the last contact. PFS curves were generated using the Kaplan–Meier method and compared using the log-rank test. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression analyses were performed to examine the association between specific clinical variables and PFS. The multivariate analysis included all clinical variables that were considered clinically or statistically significant in the univariate analysis. For all tests, differences with P < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS, version 27 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA).

Results

Patient characteristics and ALC status

This study included 202 consecutive patients with mLBC who were treated with palbociclib. The baseline clinicopathological characteristics of the patients, stratified by ALC status, are shown in Table 1. The cutoff value of ALC for PFS was set at 1800 cells/μL, per the ROC curve with the maximum Youden index (Fig. 1), based on which patients were divided into the ALC-high group (ALC ≥ 1800 cells/μL, n = 52) and ALC-low group (ALC < 1800 cells/μL, n = 150). The median follow-up duration was 9.1 months (range, 0.4–38.8 months). Table 1 Correlation between ALC and clinicopathological variables of the patients treated with palbociclib

Variable	Total	Number of cases (%)			
ALC	
High	Low	P-value	
(n = 202)	(n = 52)	(n = 150)	
Age (years)	
Median (range)	59 (25~84 y)				
 ≤60	106 (52)	25 (48)	81 (54)	0.52	
 >60	96 (48)	27 (52)	69 (46)		
PS	
 0	174 (86)	48 (92)	126 (84)	0.17	
 1, 2	28 (14)	4 (8)	24 (16)		
PgR status	
 Negative	46 (23)	10 (19)	36 (24)	0.57	
 Positive	156 (77)	42 (81)	114 (76)		
Prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease	
 Yes	86 (43)	16 (31)	70 (47)	0.052	
 No	116 (57)	36 (69)	80 (53)		
Prior endocrinetherapy for metastatic disease	
 Yes	138 (68)	29 (56)	109 (73)	0.037	
 No	64 (32)	23 (44)	41 (27)		
Liver metastasis	
 Yes	51 (25)	7 (13)	44 (29)	0.026	
 No	151 (75)	45 (87)	106 (71)		
Abbreviation: ALC Absolute lymphocyte count, PS Performance status, PgR Progesterone receptor

Fig. 1 Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis using the Youden index on ALC for PFS. The cutoff value of ALC for predicting PFS was 1800 cells/µL (AUC, 0.622; sensitivity, 83.8%; specificity, 43.9%; P = 0.005). ALC, absolute lymphocyte count; PFS, progression-free survival

All patients were women, with a median age of 59 years (range, 25–84 years) at the start of palbociclib treatment. Among them, 51 (25.2%) had liver metastases and 46 (22.8%) tested negative for PgR expression. The median numbers of lines of chemotherapy and endocrine therapy before palbociclib treatment were 0 (range, 0–9) and 1 (range, 0–7), respectively. All patients had a performance status (PS) of ≤ 2. The following hormonal therapies were used in conjunction with palbociclib: 110 (54.5%) patients received fulvestrant, 83 (41.1%) received an aromatase inhibitor (letrozole, n = 66; exemestane, n = 10; and anastrozole, n = 7), eight (4.0%) received tamoxifen, and 1 (0.5%) received medroxyprogesterone acetate. All premenopausal patients received a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist along with palbociclib and hormonal therapy. The ALC status was significantly associated with prior endocrine therapy and liver metastasis status (P = 0.037 and 0.026, respectively).

Predictive and prognostic value of ALC for the efficacy of palbociclib

The CBR was significantly higher in the ALC-high group (PR, 23%; long SD, 56%) than in the ALC-low group (PR, 10%; long SD, 50%) (79% vs. 60%, respectively; P = 0.018; Fig. 2). None of the patients achieved CR.Fig. 2 Rate of clinical benefit stratified by ALC status in patients treated with palbociclib. ALC, absolute lymphocyte count; PR, partial response; SD, stable disease

Overall, 202 patients experienced 136 disease progression events during the follow-up period. The median PFS was significantly longer in the ALC-high group than in the ALC-low group [26.8 months vs. 8.4 months; hazard ratio, 0.38; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.46–0.72; P = 0.000013] (Fig. 3). To further examine the prognostic value of the ALC status, we performed multivariate analyses with the following clinically significant factors: age (≥ 60 vs. < 60 years), PS (0 vs. 1/2), PgR status (positive vs. negative), prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease (yes vs. no), prior endocrine therapy for metastatic disease (yes vs. no), liver metastasis (yes vs. no), and ALC. Multivariate analysis revealed that the ALC, as well as PS, previous endocrine therapy, and liver metastasis were independent prognostic factors for PFS (P = 0.00085, 0.026, 0.019, and 0.0020, respectively; Table 2).Fig. 3 Kaplan–Meier curves of progression-free survival stratified by ALC status in patients receiving palbociclib. ALC, absolute lymphocyte count

Table 2 Cox regression analyses of Progression-free survival for patients treated with palbociclib

	Univariate	Multivariate	
Hazard ratio	(95% CI)	P-value	Hazard ratio	(95%CI)	P-value	
Progression-free survival	
Age	
 60 < 	1		0.66	1		0.13	
 60≧	1.08	0.77–1.51		1.32	0.91–1.90		
PS	
 0	1		0.012	1		0.026	
 1, 2	1.82	1.14–2.91		1.75	1.07–2.87		
PgR status	
 Positive	1		0.081	1		0.18	
 Negative	1.42	0.96–2.11		1.34	0.87–2.07		
Prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease	
 No	1		0.00073	1		0.38	
 Yes	1.79	1.28–2.52		1.20	0.80–1.79		
Prior endocrinetherapy for metastatic disease	
 No	1		0.0014	1		0.019	
 Yes	1.88	1.28–2.77		1.66	1.09–2.55		
Liver metastasis	
 No	1		0.000014	1		0.0020	
 Yes	2.25	1.56–3.24		1.91	1.27–2.88		
ALC status	
 Low	1		0.000028	1		0.00085	
 High	0.38	0.24–0.60		0.46	0.29–0.72		
Abbreviation: 95%CI 95% confidence interval, PS Performance status, PgR Progesterone receptor, ALC Absolute lymphocyte count

Discussion

We found that the baseline ALC was a powerful and independent predictive biomarker of survival in patients treated with palbociclib. Although two randomized clinical trials have shown that the addition of palbociclib to endocrine therapy improves survival and increases the response rates of patients with mLBC [23, 24], there are no useful biomarkers other than ER expression for predicting the clinical efficacy of palbociclib. ALC is a noninvasive and easily available parameter that is evaluated in almost all patients at the start of palbociclib treatment in daily practice, making it a potential clinically useful predictive biomarker of the efficacy of palbociclib.

Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the tumor immune microenvironment in tumor progression [26, 27]. Systemic inflammatory markers such as ALC, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio, and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio have been widely evaluated as prognostic and predictive biomarkers for various tumor types over the past few decades [28–30]. ALC has been shown to be associated with the prognosis of patients with breast cancer and other types of tumors [6, 11]. Furthermore, it has been found to predict drug efficacy in patients with various tumor types, including chemotherapy for breast, colorectal, and lung cancer [12–16]; trastuzumab for HER2-positive breast cancer [17]; immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for lung, head and neck cancer, and melanoma [18–21]; and immuno-radiotherapy for solid tumors [22]. These findings suggest that lymphocytes play an important role in eliciting the antitumor effects of various drugs. In light of the aforementioned observations, our study’s findings reinforce the role of lymphocytes in palbociclib treatment. Emile et al. also reported similar findings regarding the significant association between the baseline ALC and palbociclib efficacy [31]. However, the patient population analyzed in that study had undergone extensive prior treatments, with a median of four previous lines of therapy for metastases. In contrast, 49% of patients in our study received palbociclib as a first- or second-line treatment, consistent with the protocols of randomized trials [23, 24]. Therefore, our results may more accurately reflect the importance of ALC in current real-world clinical practice. Kanaoka et al. and Nakamoto et al. conducted similar studies evaluating the association of the baseline ALC with CDK4/6 inhibitors, including palbociclib and abemaciclib, but did not find any such association in the palbociclib cohort, possibly due to a smaller sample size and disparate ALC cutoff values [32, 33]. While both palbociclib and abemaciclib are selective CDK4/6 inhibitors, they exhibit different kinase activities and effects on survival [34, 35], suggesting that the role of lymphocytes in treatment with palbociclib may differ from that with abemaciclib.

We also evaluated the NLR in our study since it is another widely evaluated systemic inflammatory marker. However, the AUC of NLR was significantly lower than that of ALC (0.544 vs. 0.628, P = 0.024), indicating the latter’s superiority as a predictive indicator. This is not surprising, as neutropenia is one of the most common side effects of palbociclib, suggesting that neutrophils have little effect on its efficacy. Kim et al. also found that the baseline NLR did not exert an effect on the survival of patients treated with palbociclib [36].

Several studies have shown that CDK4/6 inhibitors alter the tumor immune microenvironment, and that ICI and CDK4/6 inhibitors have synergistic effects in mouse models [37–39]. Combined immunotherapy with CDK4/6 inhibitors and ICIs for the treatment of mLBC is currently under development [40, 41]. Yuan et al. conducted a phase 1/2 study and reported that the combination of palbociclib, pembrolizumab, and letrozole yielded a CR rate of 31% in patients with mLBC [41]. Further investigations on the development of combination immunotherapy with CDK 4/6 inhibitor are needed.

We found that patients with liver metastasis had a significantly lower ALC than those without, and liver metastasis was significantly associated with shorter PFS in the univariate and multivariate analyses. Yu et al. showed that liver metastases could siphon activated CD8 + T cells from systemic circulation and induce apoptosis following their interaction with monocyte-derived macrophages in mouse models [42]. They also found that patients with liver metastases had a lower peripheral ALC and diminished tumoral T cell diversity and function, suggesting that liver metastases suppress anti-tumor immunity in the clinical setting. Several recent meta-analyses have shown that the efficacy of ICI treatment is attenuated in patients with liver metastases [43–45]. Based on these findings, if CDK4/6 inhibitors exert their function in part through anti-tumor immunity, their efficacy may be attenuated in patients with liver metastases. Despite the potential influence of liver metastases on ALC and their generally poor prognostic implications, ALC retained significance as an independent factor in multivariate analyses, as did liver metastasis.

This study has several limitations. First, this was a retrospective, single-institutional, small-scale study, and these aspects may have resulted in unintentional biases. Second, the cutoff of ALC was not consistent across previous studies, whose results were unfortunately inconsistent [31–33]. In other words, a universally accepted cutoff of ALC has yet to be established. To further elucidate the significance of ALC in our cohort, we adopted a best cutoff of 1800 cells/µL based on the ROC analysis (Fig. 1). Third, the mechanism underlying our results is speculative. Lymphocytes comprise various cell types, including T cells, B cells, and NK cells, which interact with each other and with other leukocytes, such as neutrophils and monocytes. Dyikanov et al. conducted comprehensive peripheral blood immunoprofiling and demonstrated an association between immune subtypes and the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer [46]. Similar further studies are warranted to elucidate the precise mechanism of palbociclib in the context of systemic immune status. Fourth, we did not analyze overall survival (OS), which is recognized as an important clinical endpoint, along with PFS. However, discrepancies between OS and PFS outcomes can complicate the assessment of a new treatment's efficacy. The duration of post-progression survival is influenced by various factors, including crossover treatments and subsequent administration of efficacious drugs [47]. Consequently, most recent randomized clinical trials for metastatic breast cancer tend to use PFS as the primary endpoint. Moreover, the objective of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of ALC as a biomarker, and not its prognostic value. From this perspective, we selected PFS and tumor response as endpoints, which facilitated a more direct assessment of the association between ALC and palbociclib efficacy, and we opine that the value of our study is not compromised by the lack of OS data. Finally, the patients in this study received various hormonal drugs in combination with palbociclib and the treatment lines varied. However, ALC was identified as an independent prognostic factor in the multivariate analysis, in addition to the prior endocrine therapy status.

Conclusions

Our study demonstrated that the baseline ALC is a strong prognostic indicator of the efficacy of palbociclib against mLBC. Further studies are needed to validate our findings in other cohorts and to fully elucidate the mechanism by which palbociclib alters the tumor immune microenvironment in the clinical setting.

Abbreviations

ALC Absolute lymphocyte count

CBR Clinical benefit rate

ER Estrogen receptor

ICI Immune checkpoint inhibitor

mLBC Metastatic luminal breast cancer

NLR Neutrophil-to–lymphocyte ratio

PgR Progesterone receptor

PFS Progression-free survival

ROC Receiver operating characteristic

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.jp) for English language editing.

Authors’ contributions

TK conceived and designed the study. TK, MN, MH, RK, SK, YA, YO, IF, FH, TT, TU collected the data. TK verified and analyzed the data. TK wrote the manuscript, and TU and MN edited the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number 21K08678).

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Declarations

Ethics approval and consent to participate

The study protocol conformed to the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR (2023-GB-051), which waived the requirement of informed consent.

Consent for publication

Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

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