scholarly journals PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF TUMOR STROMA RATIO IN TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-571
Author(s):  
Liubov M. Zakhartseva ◽  
Mariia A. Yanovytska

The aim: The purpose of this study is to investigate prognostic value of tumor stroma ratio in triple negative breast carcinomas. Materials and methods: This cohort retrospective study included a total number of 232 previously untreated operational materials with primary stage I-III triple negative breast cancer. The median follow-up period was 3.8 years for overall survival and 3.2 years for disease-free survival. Tumor stroma ratio was evaluated by two pathologists (Kappa coefficient was 0.71 and 0.84, respectively). Results: Kaplan-Meier curves with logrank test statistically significantly showed relationship between tumor stroma ratio and both overall and disease-free survival. The Cox proportional hazards model showed tumor stroma ratio is a strong independent prognostic factor for triple negative breast carcinomas with hazard ratios of 2.11 (p=0.002) for overall survival and 1.83 (p=0.004) for disease-free survival in multivariate analysis. Conclusions: Triple negative breast tumors with high stroma ratio have worse overall and disease-free survival compared to low stroma ratio tumors. Investigation of tumor stroma ratio doesn't require any additional costs and slide preparation. It can be added to routine breast cancer investigation to expand knowledge about cancer prognosis.

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.


Medicine ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 97 (19) ◽  
pp. e0719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Mei ◽  
Lin He ◽  
Yuhua Song ◽  
Yang Lv ◽  
Lijiu Zhang ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 117822341879225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanal Alnimer ◽  
Zakaria Hindi ◽  
Khalil Katato

Introduction: Multiple trials demonstrated that adding Bevacizumab to the standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy in HER-2 negative breast cancer increases pathological complete response. We conducted this meta-analysis to evaluate that effect on survival. Methods: We performed a systematic search for randomized trials measuring the effect of adding either neoadjuvant or adjuvant Bevacizumab to the standard chemotherapy on disease-free and overall survival in breast cancer surgical candidates. The Mantel-Haenszel method and random effect model were used to analyze the data. A total of 7 randomized controlled trials were included in the analysis with a mean follow-up of 45 months. Results: No statistically significant difference in overall survival was found after adding Bevacizumab to the standard chemotherapy in the overall study population, HR=0.9, 95% CI (90.72–1.13), estrogen/ progesterone positive subgroup, HR=0.99, 95% CI (0.72–1.35), or in triple negative breast cancer, HR=0.88, 95% CI (0.77–1.01). However, there was a small but significant improvement in disease-free survival in triple negative breast cancer with a HR of 0.88, 95% CI (0.78–0.98), but not in estrogen/ progesterone receptor positive tumors, HR=1.01, 95% CI (0.81–1.26). Conclusions: The addition of Bevacizumab along with the standard chemotherapy would not improve overall survival in breast cancer surgical candidates, however, due to a small but significant improvement on disease-free survival in triple negative breast cancer, that would not eliminate the possibility of a certain subgroup of the latter who might benefit from adding Bevacizumab.


2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (28_suppl) ◽  
pp. 158-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Kamal Jomaa ◽  
Ahmed Aly Nagy

158 Background: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a unique subtype and consider as an aggressive disease without established targeted treatment options. This study conducted to determine the incidence, characteristics, and survival outcomes of TNBC patients in an Egyptian cancer institute. Methods: Medical records of 520 patients treated between 2010-2011 in Clinical Oncology Department-Ain Shams University-Egypt were analyzed. Cox proportional hazards models were used to evaluate the association between TNBC and DFS and OS after adjusting for other covariates. Results: Among the 520 patients, 139 were TNBC .The median age was 50 years (SD±11.767, Range 20-80 ) versus 52 years (SD±12.134, Range 20-80), median tumor diameter was 5 cm (SD± 1.408, Range 1-7) versus was 5 cm (SD± 1.401, Range 1-7) , and median number of positive axillary LN was 3 (SD± 4.779, Range 0-37) versus 3 (SD± 4.832, Range 0-25) in non TNBC and TNBC respectively . Median disease-free survival was 24 months (SD± 14.128, Range 1-69 ) versus 15 months (SD± 8.811, Range 1-43 ) and median overall survival was 41 months (SD± 16.249, Range 3-60) versus 31 months (SD± 12.184, Range 7-60 ) in non TNBC and TNBC respectively. About 85.6 % of the TNBC tumors were IDC, 4.4 % were ILC and 5% were mixed. About 1.4 % of the TNBC tumors were grade I, 70.5 % were grade II and 28.1% were grade III. Median disease-free survival was 24 months (95%CI 21.679- 26.321) versus 15 months (95%CI 12.587-17.413) (p< 0.001) and median overall survival was 44 months (95%CI 41.396-46.604) versus 31 months (95%CI 29.460-32.540) (p< 0.001) in non TNBC and TNBC respectively. In TNBC cohort , DFS was 12 months (95%CI 11.464-12.536) in patients with grade III tumors versus 25 months (95%CI 22.359-27.641 )in patients with other grades (p< 0.001), this was also reflected in OS as 29 months (95%CI 25.129-32.871 ) versus 44 months (95%CI 41.238-46.762 ) (p< 0.001). Conclusions: Multivariate analyses supported a conclusion that TNBC subtype was an independent adverse prognostic factor for survival along with other known risk factors such as tumor grade.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sixten Harborg ◽  
Robert Zachariae ◽  
Julia Olsen ◽  
Maja Johannsen ◽  
Deirdre Cronin-Fenton ◽  
...  

AbstractWe conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the association between overweight and outcome in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. We searched PubMed and Embase using variations of the search terms triple-negative breast cancer (population), overweight and/or obesity (exposure), and prognosis (outcome). Based on the World Health Organization guidelines for defining overweight, we included longitudinal observational studies, which utilized survival statistics with hazard ratios (HRs) in our analysis. The included studies measured body mass index at the time of diagnosis of TNBC and reported disease-free survival and/or overall survival. Study quality was assessed with the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale and study data were extracted using the Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) checklist, independently by two authors. Random-effects models were used to combine the effect sizes (HRs), and the results were evaluated and adjusted for possible publication bias. Thirteen studies of 8,944 TNBC patients were included. The meta-analysis showed that overweight was associated with both shorter disease-free survival (HR = 1.26; 95%CI: 1.09–1.46) and shorter overall survival (HR = 1.29; 95%CI: 1.11c1.51) compared to normal-weight. Additionally, our Bayesian meta-analyses suggest that overweight individuals are 7.4 and 9.9 times more likely to have shorter disease-free survival and overall survival, respectively. In conclusion, the available data suggest that overweight is associated with shorter disease-free and overall survival among TNBC patients. The results should be interpreted with caution due to possible publication bias.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
M. Al Farisyi ◽  
Daan Khambri

semua wanita yang didiagnosa kanker payudara. KPD usia muda berhubungan dengan progresifitas yang tinggi, kecenderungan untuk rekurensi dan prognosis yang lebih buruk dibandingkan KPD usia tua. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menilai outcome dari pasien KPD usia muda yang mendapatkan pengobatan di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang dari tahun 2008-2017. Desain penelitian ini adalah kohort retrospektif dengan analisis data menggunakan Kaplan Meier dengan Log Rank, pada 71 pasien yang telah didiagnosis KPD secara histopatologi dan mendapatkan terapi (bedah, kemoterapi, radioterapi, hormonal terapi ataupun targetting terapi). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan insiden KPD terbanyak pada range usia 35-40 tahun, dengan ukuran tumor T3, diferensiasi derajat sedang, histopatologi tipe duktal karsinoma dengan Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) sebagai subtipe yang terbanyak. Disease Free Survival (DFS) didapatkan rata-rata 87.48 bulan dan Overall Survival (OS) sebesar 79.13 bulan. Ukuran tumor didapatkan sebagai faktor yang berhubungan terhadap DFS (p = 0.00).


Author(s):  
Prasant Kumar Parida ◽  
Subrat Kumar Samantara ◽  
Sashibhusan Dash

Background: Because of its high-risk biological features and lack of effective treatment options, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has received greater clinical and experimental interest. Aim and objectives: The aim of this study was to compare and analyze the clinicopathological features, recurrence, metastasis, and prognosis of patients with TNBC and non-triple negative breast cancer (non-TNBC). Material and methods: This single hospital-based retrospective study was conducted on patients who were histopathologically diagnosed with breast cancer and subsequently treated from 2017 to 2018 at the Acharya Harihar Postgraduate Institute of Cancer. The clinical features and prognosis of TNBC and non-TNBC were compared. Results: This study comprised a total of 111 patients, with 36 (32.43%) being TNBC and 75 (67.56%) being non-TNBC. TNBC has 22 patients under the age of 40 (61.1%). Grade III tumors were seen in 47% of TNBC patients and 21% of non-TNBC patients (p-value = 0.05). The disease free survival (DFS) was determined to be 58 % for TNBC and 82% for non-TNBC groups, respectively (p-value = 0.05). These two groups had an overall survival rate (OS) of 72% and 92%, respectively (p-value = 0.05). Conclusion: When compared to non-TNBC, TNBC was related to high-grade malignancies, worse disease-free survival , and overall survival (OS) rates. Understanding the molecular features of TNBC, clarifying its mechanism at the molecular level, interpreting the gene expression profiles of TNBC, and studying and creating new therapeutic targets should be the focus of future research. To enhance the prognosis of TNBC patients, try to find a focused and effective therapy. Keywords: Breast cancer; survival; triple-negative breast cancer.


QJM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hesham Ahmed ElGhazaly ◽  
Manal Mohamed El-Mahdy ◽  
Azza Mohamed Adel ◽  
Nermeen Mostafa ◽  
Aya Magdy Kamal Ali

Abstract Background TNBC comprises a distinct disease entity with a unique microenvironment of TILs, the immunogenic potential of TNBC is derived from its genetic instability and high mutation rate. Tumors from patients with TNBC are more likely than tumors from patients with other subtypes to exhibit chromosomal instability and potential mutations. Objectives The study aims to evaluate the prevalence of CD8+ TILs biomarker by IHC in triple negative breast cancer and its prognostic value. TILs are an important prognostic value for the response of patient to chemotherapy the greater number of TILS is associated with higher probability of response to chemotherapy also decrease recurrence. TILS in triple negative breast cancer suggest a likely option for immunotherapy in this disease. Patients and Methods This is a retrospective study, which was carried on 30 female patients, Clinical data and paraffin wax block of female patients with triple negative breast cancer are to be collected from the breast cancer unit, department of clinical Oncology and Nuclear medicine Ain Shams university and Matarya teaching hospital. Results Several large systematic reviews and meta-analyses have confirmed that high levels of TILs are associated with better disease free survival and overall survival only in triple negative and HER2 positive subtypes, with no significant benefit seen in estrogen receptor positive breast carcinoma. In the Breast International Group (BIG) 02-98 trial shows that for every 10% increase in the intertumoral TILs there was a 17% reduced risk of relapse, and 27% reduced risk of death regardless of chemotherapy type. Also in eastern cooperative oncology group trial (ECOG) 2197, and 1199 showed that for every 10% increase in TILs, a 14% reduction of risk of recurrence, and 19% reduction in risk of death were observed. Conclusion Our study showed that All our patients (100%) were positive for CD8+, with a minimum range of 1% and a maximum range of 60%, most of the patients (20 patients) had CD8% between (10% to 20%). High levels of CD8 + TILs are good prognostic indicators in TNBC. our study showed that there were associations of CD8+ TILs infiltrate status with longer progression free survival and better overall survival in triple-negative breast cancer, but were not statistically significant probably due to our small sample size.


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