Response and long-term effect of patients with triple-negative breast cancer receiving neo-adjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy |
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Authors: | Zhengkui Sun Xingtian Ma Yudong Wu Fan Fan Xianghua Wan Airong Fu |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Breast Surgery, Jiangxi Provincial Cancer Hospital, Nanchang, 330029, Jiangxi Province, China;(2) Jiangxi Provincial Cancer Hospital, Nanchang, 330029, Jiangxi Province, China |
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Abstract: | Objective The breast cancer lack of expression of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor
receptor 2 (HER-2) is defined as the Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Our purpose is to compare the response and long-term
effect of the TNBC and non-TNBC patients receiving neo-adjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy, and to investigate the mechanisms
of TNBC affecting the survivals.
Methods Data of long-term follow-up (median, 5.4 years) of 326 patients who received neo-adjuvant chemotherapy with anthracycline-based
regimen, during a period from 2000 to 2003, were analyzed. Expressions of ER, PR, HER-2, P53, Ki-67 and E-cadherin were determined
using immunohistochemical staining method. A multivariate Cox regression analysis was used to analyze independent prognostic
factors affecting the relapse-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) rates. Clinical effects of the neo-adjuvant anthracycline-based
chemotherapeutic regimen and the RFS and OS rates were compared between the patients with TNBC and non-TNBC, and the correlations
among the triplenegative phenotype (TNP), tumor grading and the expressions of P53, Ki-67 and E-cadherins were analyzed.
Results TNP, TNM staging, histological grades, clinical response of the neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and pathological complete remission
(pCR) rate were the independent prognostic factors affecting the survival rates. Furthermore, 70 (21.5%) of the 326 patients
suffered TNBC. Compared with the subjects in non-TNBC group, the patients with TNBC had a significantly higher pCR rate (P = 0.046) and clinical response rate (P = 0.037), but also decreased 5-year RFS (P = 0.001) and OS (P = 0.004) rates. The RFS and OS rates were not improved in the TNBC patients who achieved a clinical remission after the neo-adjuvant
chemotherapy. The triple-negative phenotype was positively correlated with the level of P53, Ki-67 expression (P = 0.007, P = 0.028), but negatively correlated with level of E-cadherin (P = 0.034).
Conclusion Both clinical remission rate and pCR rate of the TNBC patients receiving neo-adjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy are
high, however, the long-term effect is poor. The mechanism may relate to a strong potential of proliferation and invasive
metastasis, as well as lack of an effective therapeutic target in the TNBC patients. |
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Keywords: | breast cancer triple-negative phenotype neo-adjuvant chemotherapy prognosis |
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