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01.07.2016 | Clinical trial
Effects of TP53 and PIK3CA mutations in early breast cancer: a matter of co-mutation and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes
verfasst von:
Vassiliki Kotoula, Vasilios Karavasilis, Flora Zagouri, George Kouvatseas, Eleni Giannoulatou, Helen Gogas, Sotiris Lakis, George Pentheroudakis, Mattheos Bobos, Kyriaki Papadopoulou, Eleftheria Tsolaki, Dimitrios Pectasides, Georgios Lazaridis, Angelos Koutras, Gerasimos Aravantinos, Christos Christodoulou, Pavlos Papakostas, Christos Markopoulos, George Zografos, Christos Papandreou, George Fountzilas
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the outcome of breast cancer (BC) patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy is affected by co-mutated TP53 and PIK3CA according to stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). Paraffin tumors of all clinical subtypes from 1661 patients with operable breast cancer who were treated within 4 adjuvant trials with anthracycline–taxanes chemotherapy were informative for TP53 and PIK3CA mutation status (semiconductor sequencing genotyping) and for stromal TILs density. Disease-free survival (DFS) was examined. TP53 mutations were associated with higher (p < 0.001) and PIK3CA with lower (p = 0.004) TILs in an ER /PgR-specific manner (p < 0.001). Mutations did not affect the favorable DFS of patients with lymphocyte-predominant (LP) BC. Within non-LPBC, PIK3CA-only mutations conferred best, while TP53–PIK3CA co-mutations (6 % of all tumors) conferred worst DFS (HR 0.59; 95 % CI 0.44–0.79; p = 0.001 for PIK3CA-only). TP53-only mutations were unfavorable in patients with lower TILs, while patients with lower TILs performed worse if their tumors carried TP53-only mutations (interaction p = 0.046). Multivariate analysis revealed favorable PIK3CA-only mutations in non-LPBC (HR 0.64; 95 % CI 0.47–0.88; p = 0.007), and unfavorable TP53 mutations in ER/PgRpos/HER2neg (HR 1.55; 95 % CI 1.07–2.24; p = 0.021). Mutations did not interact with TILs in non-LP triple-negative and HER2-positive patients. TP53 and PIK3CA mutations appear to have diverse effects on the outcome of early BC patients, according to whether these genes are co-mutated or not, and for TP53 according to TILs density and ER/PgR-status. These findings need to be considered when evaluating the effect of these two most frequently mutated genes in the context of large clinical trials.