Impact of body mass index (BMI) on the efficacy of zoledronic acid in premenopausal patients with hormone receptor positive breast cancer: An analysis of the ABCSG-12 trial.

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 514-514
Author(s):  
Georg Pfeiler ◽  
Robert Konigsberg ◽  
Christian Fesl ◽  
Brigitte Mlineritsch ◽  
Herbert Stoger ◽  
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514 Background: Zoledronic acid (ZOL) improves disease outcome in premenopausal patients with breast cancer (BC), especially in those with low estrogen environment. Obesity is associated with increased estrogen serum levels, which might influence the efficacy of ZOL. We investigated the impact of BMI on the efficacy of ZOL in premenopausal patients with BC. Methods: ABCSG-12 examined the efficacy of ovarian suppression using goserelin (3.6 mg q28d SC) in combination with anastrozole (ANA) or tamoxifen (TAM) ± ZOL 4 mg IV q6mo) in premenopausal women with endocrine-responsive BC. BMI was calculated using the prospectively collected data on patients’ height and weight at study entry. BMI definitions of the WHO were used: normal 18.5-24.9 kg/m2, overweight: BMI 25-29.9 kg/m2, obese BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2). Disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were calculated by Kaplan-Meier method and results were compared by using the log-rank test and Cox proportional hazard modeling. Results: Two thirds of the patients were normal weight (1,111) and one third was overweight (391) or obese (182). Normal weight patients treated with ZOL experienced the same benefit as overweight/obese patients treated with ZOL compared to patients without ZOL regarding disease free survival (HR 0.75, 95%CI 0.53 1.05 p = 0.09 and HR 0.71, 95%CI 0.46 1.1, p=0.12, respectively) as well as overall survival (HR 0.67, 95% CI 0.37 1.22, p=0.19 and HR 0.64, 95%CI 0.32 1.28, p=0.19, respectively). No difference regarding DFS and OS could be detected between normal weight and overweight/ obese patients treated with ZOL (HR 1.05, 95%CI 0.69 1.59, p=0.83 and HR 1.27, 95%CI 0.62 2.61, p= 0.51). Comparing normal weight patients with ZOL to obese patients with ZOL, again no difference could be observed. Conclusions: The significant outcome benefit of adjuvant zoledronic acid in ABCSG-12 can be demonstrated both in normal weight and overweight/obese premenopausal patients with early breast cancer, indicating that the bone marrow microenvironment changing impact of adjuvant bisphopshonate treatment does not correlate with patients’ BMI.

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Samuel Martel ◽  
Matteo Lambertini ◽  
Dominique Agbor-Tarh ◽  
Noam F. Ponde ◽  
Andrea Gombos ◽  
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Background: The association between obesity and prognosis in HER2-positive early breast cancer remains unclear, with limited data available. This study aimed to determine the impact of body mass index (BMI) at baseline and weight change after 2 years on outcomes of patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer. Methods: ALTTO was a randomized phase III trial in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer. BMI was collected at randomization and 2 years after. WHO BMI categories were used: underweight, <18.5 kg/m2; normal weight, 18.5 to <25 kg/m2; overweight, ≥25 to <30 kg/m2; and obese ≥30 kg/m2. A weight change from baseline of ≥5.0% and ≤5.0% was categorized as weight gain and weight loss. The impact of BMI at randomization and of weight change on disease-free survival (DFS), distant disease-free survival (DDFS), and overall survival (OS) were investigated with multivariate analyses, adjusting for baseline patients and tumor characteristics. Results: A total of 8,381 patients were included: 187 (2.2%), 3,797 (45.3%), 2,690 (32.1%), and 1,707 (20.4%) were underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese at baseline, respectively. Compared with normal weight, being obese at randomization was associated with a significantly worse DDFS (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 1.25; 95% CI, 1.04–1.50) and OS (aHR, 1.27; 95% CI, 1.01–1.60), but no significant difference in DFS (aHR, 1.14; 95% CI, 0.97–1.32). Weight loss ≥5.0% at 2 years after randomization was associated with significantly poorer DFS (aHR, 1.34; 95% CI, 1.05–1.71), DDFS (aHR, 1.46; 95% CI, 1.07–1.98), and OS (aHR, 1.83; 95% CI, 1.18–2.84). Hormone receptor and menopausal status but not anti-HER2 treatment type influenced outcomes. Toxicities were more frequent in obese patients. Conclusions: In patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer, obesity at baseline is a poor prognostic factor. Weight loss during treatment and follow-up negatively impacts clinical outcomes. Dietary counseling should be part of survivorship care programs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e12566-e12566
Author(s):  
Anna Skrzypczyk-Ostaszewicz ◽  
Agnieszka I. Jagiello-Gruszfeld ◽  
Jerzy Giermek ◽  
Zbigniew Nowecki

e12566 Background: This study discusses the analysis of the prospectively collected material on pregnant patients treated for breast cancer at the Department of Breast Cancer and Reconstructive Surgery of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Oncology Institute - National Research Institute (until 2020: Oncology Center - Institute) in Warsaw, in the years 1995 - 2020. 84 patients were included into the final analysis and 72 children were assessed simultaneously. Methods: The paper summarizes information on the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer during pregnancy, the course of pregnancy and childbirth and the birth parameters of children i.e. weight, length and Apgar score, as well as the dependencies between them, mainly the impact of some breast cancer, diagnosis and treatment process features on the newborns. The patietnt’s survavial - DFS ( disease free survival) and OS ( overall survival) - was also analyzed. The course of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment data were obtained from the patients’ medical documentation (medical records) and from information provided by the mothers during follow-up visits and read in the children's health books. In order to answer the research questions, statistical analyzes were conducted using the IBM SPSS Statistics 26 package. Results: In the analyzed period, the disease recurrence was recognized in 34 (40.5%) patients, and 24 (28.6%) patients died. The median disease-free survival (DFS) was 12.3 years (147.5 months), and the median overall survival (OS) was not reached during the follow-up period. The estimated 5-year survival rates for DFS and OS were 57.9% and 74.5% respectively, and for 10-year survival - 51.4% and 64.5%. The study showed a statistically significant relationship between the baseline clinical advancement and DFS. It has been also analyzed how the diagnosis, treatment and method of pregnancy termination changed in two time periods (1995-2012 and 2013-2020). There were no statistically significant differences in survival - both DFS and OS - between the group of patients treated before and after 2012. In the assessment of the impact of some factors on the birth children parameters (weight and length), statistically significant results were obtained for: pregnancy advancement at diagnosis, breast cancer stage at diagnosis, pregnancy advancement at the start of chemotherapy, the chemotherapy regimen (classic or dose-dense), the number of cycles of chemotherapy given during pregnancy, and the number of drugs used in supportive treatment. Conclusions: The entire analysis has become not only an insightful characteristic of the studied group, but also these results may be important in everyday clinical practice and may help to optimize the management of an extremely complex and difficult situation, which is the coexistence of pregnancy with a malignant disease that threatens the mother’s life.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio Ricci-Cabello ◽  
Adrián Vásquez-Mejía ◽  
Carlos Canelo-Aybar ◽  
Ena Niño de Guzman ◽  
Javier Pérez-Bracchiglione ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Breast cancer (BC) clinical guidelines offer evidence-based recommendations to improve quality of healthcare for patients with or at risk of BC. Suboptimal adherence to recommendations has the potential to negatively affect population health. However, no study has systematically reviewed the impact of BC guideline adherence -as prognosis factor- on BC healthcare processes and health outcomes. The objectives are to analyse the impact of guideline adherence on health outcomes and on healthcare costs. Methods We searched systematic reviews and primary studies in MEDLINE and Embase, conducted in European Union (EU) countries (inception to May 2019). Eligibility assessment, data extraction, and risk of bias assessment were conducted by one author and crosschecked by a second. We used random-effects meta-analyses to examine the impact of guideline adherence on overall survival and disease-free survival, and assessed certainty of evidence using GRADE. Results We included 21 primary studies. Most were published during the last decade (90%), followed a retrospective cohort design (86%), focused on treatment guideline adherence (95%), and were at low (80%) or moderate (20%) risk of bias. Nineteen studies (95%) examined the impact of guideline adherence on health outcomes, while two (10%) on healthcare cost. Adherence to guidelines was associated with increased overall survival (HR = 0.67, 95%CI 0.59–0.76) and disease-free survival (HR = 0.35, 95%CI 0.15–0.82), representing 138 more survivors (96 more to 178 more) and 336 patients free of recurrence (73 more to 491 more) for every 1000 women receiving adherent CG treatment compared to those receiving non-adherent treatment at 5 years follow-up (moderate certainty). Adherence to treatment guidelines was associated with higher costs, but adherence to follow-up guidelines was associated with lower costs (low certainty). Conclusions Our review of EU studies suggests that there is moderate certainty that adherence to BC guidelines is associated with an improved survival. BC guidelines should be rigorously implemented in the clinical setting. Trial registration PROSPERO (CRD42018092884).


2021 ◽  
pp. 172460082110111
Author(s):  
Erika Korobeinikova ◽  
Rasa Ugenskiene ◽  
Ruta Insodaite ◽  
Viktoras Rudzianskas ◽  
Jurgita Gudaitiene ◽  
...  

Background: Genetic variations in oxidative stress-related genes may alter the coded protein level and impact the pathogenesis of breast cancer. Methods: The current study investigated the associations of functional single nucleotide polymorphisms in the NFE2L2, HMOX1, P21, TXNRD2, and ATF3 genes with the early-stage breast cancer clinicopathological characteristics and disease-free survival, metastasis-free survival, and overall survival. A total of 202 Eastern European (Lithuanian) women with primary I–II stage breast cancer were involved. Genotyping of the single nucleotide polymorphisms was performed using TaqMan single nucleotide polymorphisms genotyping assays. Results: The CA+AA genotypes of P21 rs1801270 were significantly less frequent in patients with lymph node metastasis and larger tumor size ( P=0.041 and P=0.022, respectively). The TT genotype in ATF3 rs3125289 had significantly lower risk of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) negative, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive status ( P=0.023, P=0.046, and P=0.040, respectively). In both, univariate and multivariate Cox analysis, TXNRD2 rs1139793 GG genotype vs. GA+AA was a negative prognostic factor for disease-free survival (multivariate hazard ratio (HR) 2.248; P=0.025) and overall survival (multivariate HR 2.248; P=0.029). The ATF3 rs11119982 CC genotype in the genotype model was a negative prognostic factor for disease-free survival (multivariate HR 5.878; P=0.006), metastasis-free survival (multivariate HR 4.759; P=0.018), and overall survival (multivariate HR 3.280; P=0.048). Conclusion: Our findings suggest that P21 rs1801270 is associated with lymph node metastasis and larger tumor size, and ATF3 rs3125289 is associated with ER, PR, and HER2 status. Two potential, novel, early-stage breast cancer survival biomarkers, TXNRD2 rs1139793 and ATF3 rs11119982, were detected. Further investigations are needed to confirm the results of the current study.


2012 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Reza Gohari ◽  
Reza Khodabakhshi ◽  
Javad Shahidi ◽  
Zeinab Moghadami Fard ◽  
Hossein Foadzi ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Guillermo Peralta-Castillo ◽  
Antonio Maffuz-Aziz ◽  
Mariana Sierra-Murguía ◽  
Sergio Rodriguez-Cuevas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie-Yu Zhou ◽  
Kang-Kang Lu ◽  
Wei-Da Fu ◽  
Hao Shi ◽  
Jun-Wei Gu ◽  
...  

Background: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive disease. Nomograms can predict prognosis of patients with TNBC. Methods: A total of 745 eligible TNBC patients were recruited and randomly divided into training and validation groups. Endpoints were disease-free survival and overall survival. Concordance index, area under the curve and calibration curves were used to analyze the predictive accuracy and discriminative ability of nomograms. Results: Based on the training cohort, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, positive lymph nodes, tumor size and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes were used to construct a nomogram for disease-free survival. In addition, age was added to the overall survival nomogram. Conclusion: The current study developed and validated well-calibrated nomograms for predicting disease-free survival and overall survival in patients with TNBC.


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