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Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 1/2020

16.09.2019 | Preclinical study

Residual cancer burden index and tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte subtypes in triple-negative breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy

verfasst von: Clémence Pinard, Marc Debled, Houda Ben Rejeb, Valérie Velasco, Christine Tunon de Lara, Stéphanie Hoppe, Elodie Richard, Véronique Brouste, Hervé Bonnefoi, Gaëtan MacGrogan

Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | Ausgabe 1/2020

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Abstract

Purpose

There is a need to refine the prognosis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and to study the influence of the tumor microenvironment. We evaluated the prognostic value of pathological and immune markers in TNBC with residual disease (RD) after NAC.

Methods

In a series of 186 TNBC patients treated by NAC, we assessed the prognostic value of the Residual Cancer Burden (RCB) index. In 109 patients with RD, we studied the impact of clinicopathological features and tumor immune response in the residual tumor on overall survival (OS) and distant recurrence-free interval (DRFI).

Results

In the whole group, the OS and DRFI, at 3 years, were statistically different between the different classes of RCB (P = 0.0004 and P < 0.0001, respectively). In univariate analysis of the RD group, low RCB index and high ratios of stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), CD3 + TILs, CD4 + TILs, CD8 + TILs, and IDO1-positive cells were significant favorable prognostic factors for DRFI at 3 years. In the final multivariate model, CD4 + TILs and RCB index showed a statistically independent prognostic significance for DRFI [Hazard Ratio (HR) 2.88 (95%CI 1.34–6.17), P = 0.007 and HR 12.04 (95%CI 2.78–52.23, P < 0.0001), respectively]. The CD4 + TIL levels influenced survival in the different RCB classes with a significant effect observed in RCB-II and RCB-III classes (P = 0.05 and P = 0.05, respectively).

Conclusions

These results suggest that the combination of pathological (RCB index) and tumor micro-environmental features (CD4 + TILs) help refining the prognosis of TNBC patients with RD following NAC.
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Metadaten
Titel
Residual cancer burden index and tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte subtypes in triple-negative breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
verfasst von
Clémence Pinard
Marc Debled
Houda Ben Rejeb
Valérie Velasco
Christine Tunon de Lara
Stéphanie Hoppe
Elodie Richard
Véronique Brouste
Hervé Bonnefoi
Gaëtan MacGrogan
Publikationsdatum
16.09.2019
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment / Ausgabe 1/2020
Print ISSN: 0167-6806
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7217
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-019-05437-z

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