TY - JOUR
T1 - 21-gene recurrence score adds significant value for grade 3 breast cancers
T2 - Results from a national cohort
AU - Iorgulescu, J. Bryan
AU - Freedman, Rachel A.
AU - Lester, Susan C.
AU - Mittendorf, Elizabeth Ann
AU - Brock, Jane E.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the National Institutes of Health (5T32-HL007627; J.B.I.), the American Cancer Society (125912-MRSG-14-240-01-CPPB; R.A.F.), and Susan G. Komen (CCRCR18552788; R.A.F.).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by American Society of Clinical Oncology.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - PURPOSE The 21-gene recurrence score (RS) is used to identify patients with hormone receptor-positive earlystage breast cancer who may benefit from the addition of chemotherapy to endocrine therapy. We hypothesized that many women with poor prognostic histopathologic grade 3 disease may be offered chemotherapy irrespective of RS results, of whom a subset may not benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 30,864 women in the National Cancer Database were diagnosed with pT1c to pT2, pN0 to pN1, grade 3 estrogen receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative invasive breast carcinoma from 2010 to 2015. RS was stratified as low (less than 18), intermediate (18 to 30), and high (31 or more). Overall survival by RS was evaluated by Kaplan-Meier, log-rank, and multivariable proportional hazards, with adjustment for relevant clinical and demographic variables. RESULTS RS testing in grade 3 cancers increased between 2010 and 2015 (pN0, 53% to 72%; pN1, 16% to 36%). Among the 13,558 women with pN0 and the 2,840 with pN1 disease with RS testing, 27.1% and 30.0%, respectively, had low scores (less than 18). The 5-year overall survival rate for patients with a high RS, but not low RS, was significantly higher with chemotherapy (v no chemotherapy; absolute differences: High RS pN0 = 12.2% and pN1 = 25.5%, both P , .001; low RS pN0 = 2.5%, P = .07; and pN1 = 1.0%, P = .27), findings that were reinforced in multivariable analyses risk adjusted by clinicopathologic characteristics. CONCLUSION Increased use of RS may help to better tailor treatment recommendations by stratifying patients with grade 3 disease into those who will and will not derive survival benefit and should be considered in all patients with estrogen receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative T1c to T2, N0 to N1 disease.
AB - PURPOSE The 21-gene recurrence score (RS) is used to identify patients with hormone receptor-positive earlystage breast cancer who may benefit from the addition of chemotherapy to endocrine therapy. We hypothesized that many women with poor prognostic histopathologic grade 3 disease may be offered chemotherapy irrespective of RS results, of whom a subset may not benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 30,864 women in the National Cancer Database were diagnosed with pT1c to pT2, pN0 to pN1, grade 3 estrogen receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative invasive breast carcinoma from 2010 to 2015. RS was stratified as low (less than 18), intermediate (18 to 30), and high (31 or more). Overall survival by RS was evaluated by Kaplan-Meier, log-rank, and multivariable proportional hazards, with adjustment for relevant clinical and demographic variables. RESULTS RS testing in grade 3 cancers increased between 2010 and 2015 (pN0, 53% to 72%; pN1, 16% to 36%). Among the 13,558 women with pN0 and the 2,840 with pN1 disease with RS testing, 27.1% and 30.0%, respectively, had low scores (less than 18). The 5-year overall survival rate for patients with a high RS, but not low RS, was significantly higher with chemotherapy (v no chemotherapy; absolute differences: High RS pN0 = 12.2% and pN1 = 25.5%, both P , .001; low RS pN0 = 2.5%, P = .07; and pN1 = 1.0%, P = .27), findings that were reinforced in multivariable analyses risk adjusted by clinicopathologic characteristics. CONCLUSION Increased use of RS may help to better tailor treatment recommendations by stratifying patients with grade 3 disease into those who will and will not derive survival benefit and should be considered in all patients with estrogen receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative T1c to T2, N0 to N1 disease.
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U2 - 10.1200/PO.19.00029
DO - 10.1200/PO.19.00029
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086267000
SN - 2473-4284
VL - 3
JO - JCO Precision Oncology
JF - JCO Precision Oncology
ER -