Induction of Cisplatin/Nab-paclitaxel/Pembrolizumab Followed by Olaparib/Pembrolizumab Maintenance in mTNBC Patients

TNBC is a hard-to-treat disease requiring continuous administration of drugs, necessitating further exploration of optimal maintenance strategy. However, there are currently no standard maintenance treatment regimens in the treatment of mTNBC. KEYNOTE-355 has already proved pembrolizumab has durable antitumor activity and manageable safety in patients with metastatic TNBC. Olaparib is now established as maintenance therapy for platinum-sensitive populations regardless of BRCA status in the setting of other tumor types. Furthermore, preclinical and clinical data indicates that olaparib and pembrolizumab combination have an improved therapeutic effect, showing promising synergistic benefits. Therefore, adding olaparib to pembrolizumab after induction treatment with a platinum-based regimen plus pembrolizumab will high likely change and expand the treatment paradigm in this disease, particularly for those patients with platinum-sensitive TNBC tumors. Olaparib plus pembrolizumab has the potential for further treatment benefit as a chemo-sparing regimen.