Title

Clinicopathologic features and models predicting for high-risk 21-gene recurrence score (RS) are unreliable in predicting primary tumor downstaging with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT)

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2017

Publication Title

Annals of surgical oncology

Abstract

10-25% of hormone receptor-positive (pos), HER2/neu-negative (neg), node-neg breast cancer patients (pts) will have a high-risk RS, indicating survival advantage associated with adjuvant chemotherapy. Samples for RS testing are typically selected from primary surgery specimens. Extent to which elevated RS or models predicting for an elevated score might identify pts that would benefit from NACT to downstage the primary tumor/improve lumpectomy eligibility is uncertain. Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy is limited in improving lumpectomy eligibility. Our goal was to determine whether clinicopathologic features and models predicting for high-risk RS could accurately identify pts that respond to NACT. We queried an IRB-approved, prospectivelymaintained database to evaluate pts with hormone receptor-pos, HER2-neg breast cancer 2009-2016 that had primary surgery with RS testing or that received NACT without RS. Clinicopathologic features, including MIB1/Ki67 proliferative index and the web-based Magee scores were evaluated for accuracy in identifying (i) cases with high-risk RS (≥31) and (ii) cases with significant tumor downstaging from NACT likely to improve lumpectomy eligibility (defined as complete pathologic response or ≥1 centimeter decrease in primary tumor size). 302 primary surgery pts had RS; 21 (7%) had high-risk score. Univariate features associated with high-risk score were: high Ki67 and grade (p

Volume

24

Issue

1

First Page

S49

Last Page

S50

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