Differential response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy among 7 triple-negative breast cancer molecular subtypes.
Differential response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy among 7 triple-negative breast cancer molecular subtypes.
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DOI:
10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-13-0799
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发表时间:
2013-10-01
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Ueno NT
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Masuda H;Baggerly KA;Wang Y;Zhang Y;Gonzalez-Angulo AM;Meric-Bernstam F;Valero V;Lehmann BD;Pietenpol JA;Hortobagyi GN;Symmans WF;Ueno NT
The clinical relevancy of the 7-subtype classification of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) reported by Lehmann and Bauer et al is unknown. We investigated the clinical relevancy of TNBC heterogeneity by determining pathological complete response (pCR) rates after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, based on TNBC subtypes. We revalidated the Lehmann and Bauer et al. experiments using Affymetrix CEL files from public datasets. We applied these methods to 146 TNBC patients with gene expression microarrays obtained from June 2000 to March 2010 at our institution. Of those, 130 had received standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy and had evaluable pathological response data. We classified the TNBC samples by subtype, then correlated subtype and pCR status using Fisher’s exact test and a logistic regression model. We also assessed survival and compared the subtypes to PAM50 intrinsic subtypes and residual cancer burden (RCB) index. TNBC subtype and pCR status were significantly associated (P=0.04379). The basal-like 1 (BL1) subtype had the highest pCR rate (52%); basal-like 2 (BL2) and luminal androgen receptor (LAR) had the lowest (0% and 10%, respectively). TNBC subtype was an independent predictor of pCR status (P=0.022) by a likelihood ratio test. The subtypes better predicted pCR status than did the PAM50 intrinsic subtypes (basal-like vs non basal-like). Classifying TNBC by 7 subtypes predicts high vs. low pCR rate. We confirm the clinical relevancy of the 7 subtypes of TNBC. We need to prospectively validate whether the pCR rate differences translate into long-term outcome differences. The 7-subtype classification may spur innovative personalized medicine strategies for TNBC patients.