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    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 71, No. 24_Supplement ( 2011-12-15), p. P3-12-03-P3-12-03
    Abstract: Background: Preoperative chemotherapy (PCT) is widely used to increase the possibility of breast-conserving treatment (BCT). However, the appropriate indication for BCT after PCT is controversial, because the rates of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR) may be higher than those reported for BCT when surgery is used first. We performed a multicenter retrospective study to evaluate factors that were associated with IBTR in patients with BCT after PCT, and validated M. D. Anderson Prognostic Index (MDAPI) (Cancer 2005;103:689–95) using our data set. Patients and Methods: From eight Japanese hospitals, data were extracted on a total of 381 patients with invasive breast cancer (BC) who were treated with ≥3 cycles of PCT followed by breast-conserving surgery and irradiation. The rates of IBTR were evaluated by MDAPI including clinical N2 or N3 disease, pathologic residual tumor & gt;2 cm, multifocal pattern of residual disease, and lymphovascular space invasion in the specimen. Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate cumulative recurrence rates. Log-rank test and Cox's proportional hazard model were used for statistical analyses. Results: Median age at diagnosis of the primary tumor was 48 years; median size of the primary tumor at diagnosis was 4.0 cm. One hundred and forty-six patients received postoperative chemotherapy and 211 received postoperative endocrine therapy. At a median follow-up period of 50 months, 18 of 381 patients developed IBTR, which resulted in 5-year IBTR-free rate of 94.1%. Univariate analyses revealed that estrogen receptor (ER) status both before and after PCT (positive vs. negative), pathological nodal status after PCT (≥4 vs. 0–3 positive nodes), and pathologically residual invasive tumor (≥1.8 vs. ≤1.7 cm) were significantly associated with IBTR (all P & lt; 0.05). Pathological margin status did not affect IBTR rate (P=0.88). Multivariate analysis revealed that significant independent predictors of IBTR included ER status after PCT (Hazard Ratio [HR], 0.10; P & lt;0.01), size of residual invasive tumor (HR, 5.29; P=0.03), and pathological nodal status after PCT (HR, 3.59; P=0.02). The rates of IBTR of patients with MDAPI 0–3 were 1.3%, 2.9%, 16.0%, and 3.6%, respectively. Based on the data of our multivariate analysis, ER status after PCT (ER positive;0 and ER negative; 1 was added to MDAPI. Total scores of the prognostic index including MDAPI and ER status after PCT ranged between 0 and 5. The rates of IBTR correlated well with this prognostic index. The 5-year IBTR-free survival rates were 0% for 23 patients in score 0, 3.4% for 89 in score 1, 3.9% for 51 in score 2, 21.2% for 33 in score 3, and 16.7% for 6 in score 4 (P & lt; 0.01). Conclusion: Our prognostic index (MDAPI plus ER status) would be useful for clinical decision making according to surgical procedures after PCT. BCT is an appropriate treatment option for patients with the low prognostic index (0 to 2). The high risk population with the high prognostic index (3 to 5) may benefit from mastectomy. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2011;71(24 Suppl):Abstract nr P3-12-03.
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    American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) ; 2009
    In:  Cancer Research Vol. 69, No. 24_Supplement ( 2009-12-15), p. 5021-5021
    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 69, No. 24_Supplement ( 2009-12-15), p. 5021-5021
    Abstract: Background:In order to obtain negative margins after breast conserving surgery (BCS), even repeated surgery is widely accepted. Before surgery, it is important to conduct a precise assessment of the extent of the breast cancer so that each patient can receive individualized surgery. To evaluate the utility of breast computed tomography (CT) as a tool to manage BCS, a multi-institutional prospective study was conducted in Japan.Patients and Methods:Patients were eligible to participate in this study if they had histologically proven breast cancer and were determined to be BCS candidates based on palpation, mammography (MMG) and ultrasonography (US). Written informed consent was obtained from each patient. First, the surgeon marked the line of planned excision on the skin using information from the MMG and US. Next, an expired angiographic catheter was placed on the mark to show the original surgical margin on the CT image. Breast CT was scanned 60 seconds after the bolus injection of the contrast material in the supine surgical position. The surgeon determined the extent of surgery based on the breast CT results. Surgical specimens were serially sectioned in 5-mm slices.Results:Three hundred and two patients were enrolled in this study. The CT scanners used in this study varied from a single helical CT to a 64-row multidetector CT. The results of the breast CT changed the extent of resection in 14.7% of patients. Among the 5 patients who were recommended to undergo a mastectomy, 4 patients had multicentric tumors pathologically and 1 patient had a widely spread intraductal component. The other patients were recommended to have a quadrantectomy based on the extent of breast cancer that was visualized by CT. Three patients (1%) who required conversion from a lumpectomy to quadrantectomy resulted in overexcision. In short, breast CT correctly changed the extent of surgery in 13.7% of the examined patients.Conclusion:This prospective study suggested that breast CT is useful for hospitals equipped with any type of CT and can be used to provide patients with individualized surgery. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2009;69(24 Suppl):Abstract nr 5021.
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    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 72, No. 24_Supplement ( 2012-12-15), p. P2-10-18-P2-10-18
    Abstract: Background: We have previously reported on the Cell Cycle Profiling (C2P) assay for determining the specific activity (SA, activity/expression) of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). The C2P-risk score (C2P-RS) based on CDK1 and CDK2 SAs was significantly associated with “tumor growth speed” in xenograft models and relapse in early breast cancer. This study was conducted to confirm the prognostic performance of C2P-RS classification in node-negative and hormone receptor (HR)-positive (ER− and/or PR-positive) breast cancers. Methods: This multicenter and blinded retrospective study included patients with node-negative, HR-positive tumors treated with endocrine therapy alone. Patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy or trastuzumab or any kind of neoadjuvant treatments were excluded. C2P-RS was determined via the C2P assay (Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, Japan) using frozen samples obtained during surgery. C2P-RS classification based on C2P-RS and CDK1 SA classified patients into three groups (low, intermediate, and high C2P-RS groups) using the same cut-off values as previously reported. ER, PR, HER2, and Ki-67 expressions were centrally evaluated with immunohistochemistry. The primary endpoint was the 5y-relapse-free survival (RFS) rate. Results: Of 317 patients enrolled in this study, 266 (24–85 y) were eligible: menopausal status: pre- 44%, post- 56%; histologic grade: I 24%, II 58%, III16%; ER: positive 93%; PR: positive 82%; HER2: negative 96%. 22 (8.3%) patients relapsed within 5 y after surgery (median follow-up period, 73 mo). The distribution of each C2P-RS group was 71.8% in the low group, 12.0% in the intermediate group, and 16.2% in the high group. The Kaplan-Meier method showed that the 5y-RFS rate in the high C2P-RS group (74.4%) was significantly lower than that in the intermediate (84.3%) or the low C2P-RS groups (97.3%) (P & lt; 0.001). In addition, the time to relapse (TTR) in the high C2P-RS group was shorter than that in the intermediate or low C2P-RS group (the mean TTR: 22.5±6.7, 36.0±12.6, and 44.5±14.9 months, respectively). The Kruskal-Wallis test showed a significantly difference in TTR among these three groups (p = 0.007). The univariate analysis demonstrated that age, tumor size, histologic grade, lymphovascular invasion, ER, PR, and HER2 status had no significant correlations with relapse but C2P-RS classification (the low C2P-RS group vs. the high C2P-RS group: P & lt; 0.001 and the low C2P-RS group vs. the intermediate C2P-RS group: p = 0.006) and Ki-67 expression (p = 0.009) were significantly associated with relapse. However, multivariate Cox analysis showed that only C2P-RS classification was a significantly independent prognostic factor (the low C2P-RS group vs. the high C2P-RS group: P & lt; 0.001 and the low C2P-RS group vs. the intermediate C2P-RS group: p = 0.038). C2P-RS classification was significantly but weakly associated with Ki-67 expression (R = 0.343, P & lt; 0.001). Conclusion: C2P-RS is unique in that it reflects the tumor growth speed, and C2P-RS classification was able to select patients with favourable or unfavourable prognosis from among those with node-negative, HR-positive tumors treated with endocrine therapy alone. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2012;72(24 Suppl):Abstract nr P2-10-18.
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    American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) ; 2010
    In:  Cancer Research Vol. 70, No. 24_Supplement ( 2010-12-15), p. P2-02-01-P2-02-01
    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 70, No. 24_Supplement ( 2010-12-15), p. P2-02-01-P2-02-01
    Abstract: Purpose: Signal attenuation of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images (DWI) in vivo with high b-values is sometimes non-linear when plotted with a semilogarithmic function, but it fits well with the biexponential equation, Sb/S0=f1exp(bD1) + (1-f1)(bD2). Others have indicated that the fast and slow component fractions (f1, 1-f1) of the apparent diffusion coefficients (D1, D2) can be derived by biexponential fitting, and that these fractions correspond to actual diffusion components in the extra-and intracellular space. Here, we investigated the clinical value of DWI for breast screening by performing multi b-factor DWI on healthy volunteers and patients. We then analyzed signals by fitting them with the biexponential equation and compared the fitting parameters of breast lesions. Patients and methods: This study was approved by our center's institutional review board and all patients and volunteers gave their informed consent. We analyzed data from eight healthy females (controls) and 80 female patients with a total of 100 breast tumors (42 benign and 58 malignant). We performed DWI using 12 and 6 b-values for the controls and patients up to a maximum b-value of 3500 sec/mm2. Results: We identified the DWI signal attenuation features of the normal mammary gland, and of benign and malignant tumors [Figure1]. The DWI signal attenuation was similar between some proliferative benign tumors and malignancies. A comparison of the parameters derived from biexponential fitting revealed a significant difference in f1 between noninvasive and invasive ductal carcinoma [Figure 2] . Conclusion: The biexponential fitting parameters might reflect the features of tumor cellularity. Thus, to distinguish malignant from benign breast tumors only by DWI is difficult due to the pathological diagnosis that rather emphasizes cell configuration or shape rather than cellularity. Nevertheless, our findings will help to understand why malignant tumors present as high signal intensity in DWI. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2010;70(24 Suppl):Abstract nr P2-02-01.
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    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 70, No. 24_Supplement ( 2010-12-15), p. P1-11-13-P1-11-13
    Abstract: Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the primary chemosensitivity and prognosis among women with four common breast subtypes, Luminal A, Luminal B, HER2 and Triple negative (TN). In this study, we evaluated the response to primary chemotherapy of each subtype, reported the outcome of each subgroup after primary chemotherapy. Method: We analyzed the outcome and characteristics of patients treated with primary chemotherapy using anthracycline and/or taxanes. Before initiation of chemotherapy, invasive carcinoma was confirmed on initial biopsy specimen obtained and hormone receptor status and HER2/neu status was also determined on this specimen. ER and PgR positivity was recognized at a cut-off of & gt; 10% positive nuclei by immunohistochemistory (IHC). HER2/neu-positive status was defined as either 3+ by IHC or presence of gene amplification by fluorescence in situ hybridization testing. Breast cancer subtypes were defied as follow, TN (ER-, PgR-, HER2-), Luminal A (ER+ and/or PgR+, HER2-), Luminal B (ER+ and/or PgR+, HER2+), HER2 (ER-, PgR-, HER2+). Result: Between 2000 and 2007, 639 breast cancer patients were treated with primary chemotherapy at Cancer Institute Hospital. Clinical and immunohistochemical data was available on 503 patients. Median observation period was 49.9 months (2.8-122.4). In these cases, 105 cases (20.9%) were defined as TN, 276 cases (54.9%) were defined as Luminal A, 49 cases (9.7%) were defined as Luminal B, 73 cases (14.5%) were defined as HER2, respectively. 138 patients (27.4%) received anthracycline-based regimen, 139 patients (27.6%) received taxane, 227 patients (45.1%) received taxane-anthracycline combination regimen. The pathologic complete response (pCR) rate of each group was 15.2%, 2.0%, 8.2%, 16.4%, in TN, Luminal A, Luminal B, HER2, respectively (P & lt;0.001). The 5-yr disease free survival estimated 69.1%, 74.4%, 62.8%, 70.6% (p=0.140), and the 5-yr overall survival estimated 69.1%, 75.6%, 88.6%, 69.4% in TN, Luminal A, Luminal B, HER2, respectively (p=0.007). Mean survival time from the first recurrence was 21.1 months (95%CI 11.5-30.7), 40.6 months (95%CI 31.6-49.6), 81.8 months (95%CI 59.1-104.5), 30.0 months (95%CI 21.1-38.9), respectively (P & lt;0.001). According to the first recurrence, most frequent visceral metastatic site of TN and HER2 patients was brain (P & lt;0.001), and median time to brain metastasis was 13.2 months (95%CI 8.5-17.9). Surprisingly, three (21.4%) of the patients who had brain metastasis resulted in pCR by primary chemotherapy. Of note, Luminal A patients were more likely to have bone metastasis than other groups at first (p=0.003), and median time to bone metastasis was 16.3 months (95%CI 14.1-18.6). Conclusions: With primary chemotherapy, pCR rate of TN and HER2 were higher than Luminal groups, but they developed brain metastasis early irrespective of pCR, this might contribute to their worse prognosis. In contrast, Luminal A developed bone metastasis at first, this might result in good prognosis instead of their low pCR rate. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2010;70(24 Suppl):Abstract nr P1-11-13.
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    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 73, No. 24_Supplement ( 2013-12-15), p. P2-18-03-P2-18-03
    Abstract: BACKGROUND: Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) for the node negative breast cancer is standard treatment as an accurate assessment of axillary lymph node status; however, axillary node dissection is a standard procedure for the node positive breast cancer. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) has become the standard of care for patients with locally advanced breast cancer. It is reported that 40% of node positive disease convert to node negative after NAC. It remains controversial whether SLB could be applied to patients who present with node-positive disease before neoadjuvant chemotherapy. In this study, we evaluated the accuracy of SNB following NAC in breast cancer patients presenting with cytology-proven axillary node metastasis before chemotherapy. METHODS: A multicenter prospective study was performed from September 2011 to April 2013 in 101 breast cancer patients with positive axillary nodes, proven by ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration at initial diagnosis (T1-3, N1, M0). After the confirmation of patients as clinically node-negative by preoperative imaging following NAC, all patients underwent breast surgery, with SNB and complete axillary lymph node dissection. The sentinel nodes were examined by hematoxylin-eosin staining, immunohistochemical analysis or one-step nucleic acid amplification assay (OSNA).The false negative rate and detection rate were analyzed. RESULTS: Among the 101 patients analyzed, all cases presented with invasive ductal carcinoma. with a mean tumor size of 3.4cm. Thirty-six cases were hormone receptor (HR) positive and HER2 negative (Lum), 14 cases were HR positive and HER2 positive (Triple-Positive), 27 cases were positive for HER2 (HER2-enriched), and 24 cases were Triple-Negative. After neoadjuvant chemotherapy, a complete clinical response in the primary tumor was seen in 24.8%(25/101), a partial response in 66.3%(67/101), and no response in 7.9%(8/101). Pathological complete response of primary tumor was 39.6%. The pathological complete nodal response rate was 42.2%. The sentinel lymph node could be identified in 91 of 101 cases (90.1%); 88.9% (32/36) of patients with Lum, 100%(14/14)of those with Triple-Positive, 85.2% (23/27) of those with HER2-enriched, and 91.7% (22/24)% of those with Triple-Negative breast cancer subtype. The false negative rate was 12.7%; 35.7 (5/14) for Lum, 0% (0/8) for Triple-Positive, 5.0% (1/20) for HER2-enriched, and 7.7% (1/13) for Triple-Negative subtype (P = 0.03). CONCLUSION: SNB following NAC in patients with node-positive breast cancer was found to be technically feasible, but is not recommended for the Lum subtype. However, it might be safely considered in selected patients, those with Triple-Positive, HER2-enrich and Triple-Negative subtype breast cancers. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2013;73(24 Suppl): Abstract nr P2-18-03.
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    American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) ; 2019
    In:  Cancer Research Vol. 79, No. 4_Supplement ( 2019-02-15), p. P4-08-29-P4-08-29
    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 79, No. 4_Supplement ( 2019-02-15), p. P4-08-29-P4-08-29
    Abstract: [Background] In patients with node-negative (N0), hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2) -negative (luminal) breast cancer, the impact of lymphatic invasion (ly) on the prognosis remains to be clarified. [Methods] Among 3,158 patients with primary breast cancers who underwent surgery in our institute from January 2007 to December 2009, we analyzed 1027 N0 luminal invasive breast cancers without preoperative systemic therapy. The luminal breast cancer was defined as hormone receptor-positive (ER of ≥ 10% or PgR of ≥ 10%) and HER2-negative (immunohistochemistry: 0, 1+ or FISH: ratio & lt; 2.0) cancer in the postoperative pathological specimen. ly was defined as positive when cancer cell nests were detected within the lymph duct in the whole specimen. N0 was confirmed pathologically by the sentinel lymph node biopsy in all the patients. The Fisher's exact test was used for comparison between different categories. The distant recurrence rate (DRR) was analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method and the log-rank test. For multivariate analysis, Cox's regression analysis was performed. [Results] The median follow-up period was 103.8 months (range: 5.6-128.8). Recurrence with distant metastasis occurred in 26 patients (2.5%). There were 5 (0.7%) deaths related to breast cancer. ly was detected in 240 patients (23.4%). In the ly-positive group, the tumor size was larger (p = 0.007), and the nuclear grade (NG) was higher (p & lt; 0.001) than in the ly-negative group. Postoperative endocrine therapy (p & lt; 0.001) and postoperative chemotherapy (p & lt; 0.001) were more frequently employed for patients with ly-positive tumor. The univariate analysis showed that ly positivity (p & lt; 0.001), large tumor size (p & lt; 0.001), high NG (p & lt; 0.001), PgR negativity (p = 0.002) and the history of adjuvant chemotherapy (p & lt; 0.001) were associated with high DRR. In the multivariate analysis, large tumor size (p = 0.007) and PgR negativity (p = 0.015) remained significant. Although positive ly had a risk ratio of 2.2, it was not an independent risk factor.When restricted to T1 tumor (n = 899), the aforementioned factors still showed prognostic value in the univariate analysis, among which ly positivity (p = 0.004)remained significant together with PgR negativity (p = 0.047)in themultivariate analysis.The 8-year DRR was very favorable (0.8%) in patients with ly-negative T1N0 tumor while it was modest (6.6%) in patients with ly-positive T1N0 tumor (p & lt; 0.001). Only 1.3% of the patients had received adjuvant chemotherapy in the ly-negative group while 27% of the patients had in the ly-positive group. [Conclusion] Lymphatic invasion was associated with higher DRR although it was not independent in the multivariate analysis among patients with N0 luminal breast cancer. When restricted to patients with T1N0 luminal breast cancer, the presence of ly was independently associated with higher risk of distant recurrence. It suggests that the assessment of ly is clinically more relevant when considering treatment options for small luminal breast cancer. Citation Format: Abe T, Ito Y, Fukada I, Shibayama T, Ono M, Kobayashi T, Kobayashi K, Takahashi S, Horii R, Akiyama F, Iwase T, Ueno T, Ohno S. Lymphatic invasion is an independent risk factor in patients with small node-negative luminal breast cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2018 Dec 4-8; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P4-08-29.
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    American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) ; 2009
    In:  Cancer Research Vol. 69, No. 24_Supplement ( 2009-12-15), p. 1102-1102
    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 69, No. 24_Supplement ( 2009-12-15), p. 1102-1102
    Abstract: Background: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) refers to breast cancers that don't express ER, PgR and HER-2, and several studies reported poorer clinical outcome than other groups. In spite of their poor outcome, on the basis of limited clinical data, TNBC patients demonstrated higher objective response rate and pathological complete response (pCR) rate than other subgroups with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. In this study, we evaluated the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy of TNBC, reported the outcome of TNBC and other subgroups after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.Method: We analyzed the outcome and characteristics of patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy using anthracycline and/or taxanes. Breast cancer subtypes are defined the following: Luminal A (ER+ and/or PgR+, HER2-), Luminal B (ER+ and/or PgR+, HER2+), HER2 (ER-, PgR-, HER2+), TN (ER-, PgR-, HER2-), Luminal A/B and HER2 subtypes were regarded as non-TNBC in this study.Result: Between 2000 and 2007, 639 breast cancer patients were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy at Cancer Institute Hospital. Clinical and immunohistochemical data was available on 596 patients. Median observation period was 1085 days (84-3382). In these cases, 111cases (18.6%) were defined as TNBC, and 485 cases (81.4%) were classified as non-TNBC. In each group, 28 and 138 cases (25.2% vs 28.5%), 35 and 132 cases (31.5% vs 27.2%), 48 and 215 cases (43.2% vs 44.3%) were treated with anthracycline (A), taxane (T), both A and T, respectively. Clinical complete response (cCR) rate and response rate (RR: CR + partial response (PR)) of TNBC were higher than of non-TNBC (cCR: 10.8% vs 2.7%, p=.0006) (RR: 66.7% vs 64.5%, p & lt;.0001), respectively. Despite the better cCR rates of TNBC, the clinical progressive disease (cPD) rate was higher than non-TNBC (15.3% vs 3.9%)(p & lt;.0001). With using only A or T regimen and the same treatment period, there was no difference in the cCR rate of TNBC between A and T (7.1% vs 2.9%)(p=.4274), but there was a difference in the cPD rate (0% vs 31.4%)(p=.0009). The pCR rate of TNBC and non TNBC was 9.0% and 2.5%, respectively (p=.001). The 3-yr disease free survival (DFS) rate was 78.4% with TNBC cases, and 84.7% with non-TNBC cases (p=.1027). However there was not difference in the 3-yr DFS between pCR and non-pCR groups of both TNBC (80.0% vs 78.2%, p=.8776) and non TNBC (91.7% vs 84.6%, p=.4994), respectively.Conclusions: With neoadjuvant chemotherapy, cCR and pCR rate of TNBC were higher than non-TNBC, but their cPD rate was also high. As for chemotherapy regimen, T might be less effective in treating TNBC. In this study, the total numbers of pCR cases were few, therefore pCR subsets might not contribute to good DFS. Despite standard neoadjuvant regimen usually including both A and T, half of the patients in this study underwent the chemotherapy with only A or T, due to our institutional previous study. TNBC tends to have worse prognosis, therefore more effective treatment would be required. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2009;69(24 Suppl):Abstract nr 1102.
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    American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) ; 2016
    In:  Cancer Research Vol. 76, No. 4_Supplement ( 2016-02-15), p. P4-02-13-P4-02-13
    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 76, No. 4_Supplement ( 2016-02-15), p. P4-02-13-P4-02-13
    Abstract: BACKGROUND: In neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for early breast cancer, the pathological response rate in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors has been low in comparison with those of ER-negative tumors. Therefore, surrogate makers other than the pCR rate are needed during NAC for luminal breast cancer. Using MRI, we analyzed the patterns of tumor shrinkage after NAC as a surrogate prognostic factor in low grade luminal breast cancer. METHODS: Of 854 patients who had received NAC in a single institute from Jan. 2000 to Dec. 2009, 183 patients with low grade luminal breast cancer were retrospectively evaluated for this study. They were defined as ER and/or PgR positive in more than 10% of cancer cells and HER2 negative (IHC 0, 1+ or FISH & lt;2.0) with nuclear grade 1 and 2. RESULTS: The median observation period was 67.9 months following surgery, and recurrence was observed in 31 patients (16.9%). The median age was 49 (22-76) years. One hundred eighty patients received anthracycline-containing chemotherapy, and 158 received taxane. There were 16 deaths (8.7%) related to breast cancer. We categorized the patterns of tumor shrinkage by MRI into 6 types: concentric shrinkage (CS), diffuse decrease (DD), reduction to small foci (RSF), decrease of intensity only (DIO), no change (NC), and enlargement (EL). According to our categorization, CS occurred in 97 (53.0%), RSF in 7 (3.8%), DD in 62 (33.9%), DIO in 7 (3.8%), NC in 5 (2.7%), and EL in 5 (2.7%). As expected, there were statistically significant differences in both the median DFS and OS in each pattern of tumor shrinkage (p & lt;0.001 and p=0.001, respectively); in particular, the CS pattern had excellent prognosis. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that concentric shrinkage was the only significant good prognostic factor for OS (p=0.015). CONCLUSIONS: Tumor shrinkage patterns as revealed by MRI could be important surrogate prognostic factors for NAC in early low grade luminal breast cancer. Citation Format: Fukada I, Araki K, Kobayashi K, Gomi N, Horii R, Akiyama F, Takahashi S, Iiwase T, Ohno S, Ito Y. The pattern of tumor shrinkage is associated with prognosis in low grade luminal early breast cancer during neoadjuvant chemotherapy. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: 2015 Dec 8-12; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P4-02-13.
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    In:  Cancer Research Vol. 72, No. 24_Supplement ( 2012-12-15), p. P1-01-12-P1-01-12
    In: Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 72, No. 24_Supplement ( 2012-12-15), p. P1-01-12-P1-01-12
    Abstract: Background: The OSNA (One Step Nucleic acid Amplification) assay is a semi-automated lymph node examination method using molecular biological technique. The OSNA assay has been validated for breast cancer patients without receiving preoperative systemic therapy (PST) by several clinical studies and has currently become more popular as sentinel lymph node (SLN) examination method with the following two main advantages; 1) to allow examination of the whole portion of a node, 2) to allow intraoperative judgment of metastasis positive or negative. However, the feasibility of the OSNA assay in breast cancer patients treated by PST has never been confirmed. In this multi-central clinical study, we compared the judgments of the OSNA assay and of pathological examination on lymph nodes dissected after receiving PST to evaluate the performance of the OSNA assay. Material & Methods: Three hundred two nodes dissected from the 80 breast cancer patients who received PST were examined. Each lymph node was divided at 2mm intervals and the slices were alternately applied to the OSNA assay and pathological examination with H & E staining and CK19 immunohistochemical staining of permanent-section. In pathological examination, judgments of metastasis positive or negative were determined by one central-review pathologist according to the criteria of AJCC 7th edition (“positive” if & gt;0.2mm metastases were detected). Result: The overall concordance rate between the OSNA assay and pathological examination was 91.1% (275/302) with sensitivity of 88.3% (53/60) and specificity of 91.7% (222/242) (Table). These results are very similar to those of the Japanese clinical validation study in breast cancer patients without receiving PST which was conducted by the almost same protocol (Tamaki Y, et al. Clin Cancer Res, 2009, 15: 2879–2884). Conclusion & Discussion: These results indicate the OSNA assay can be applicable for breast cancer patients after receiving PST as well as breast cancer patients without receiving PST. The OSNA assay will enable to examine the whole portion of nodes, leading to more detection of metastases (especially micrometastases) and more exact nodal staging for breast cancer patients treated by PST. Also, for the patients who receive sentinel lymph node biopsy after PST, the OSNA assay will be useful as intraoperative examination method of SLNs because it is expected to provide more correct judgments than current intraoperative methods such as frozen-section or touch-print cytology. Citation Information: Cancer Res 2012;72(24 Suppl):Abstract nr P1-01-12.
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