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Ki67 expression and the effect of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy on luminal HER2-negative breast cancer.

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Background

Patients with luminal HER2-negative tumours have a favourable prognosis. However, there is a subpopulation in which poorer outcomes are obtained with endocrine therapy alone. This subpopulation is considered to benefit from chemotherapy. However, the significance of chemotherapy for those with luminal tumours has decreased due to recent changes in treatment strategies. Thus, it is often difficult to determine whether we should recommend chemotherapy to such patients in clinical practice. We investigated Ki67 expression, as a means of predicting the responses of luminal HER2-negative breast cancer patients to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), in order to identify a subpopulation that would benefit from these treatments.

Methods

We enrolled 114 luminal HER2-negative breast cancer patients undergoing surgery after NAC. Biomarkers were examined using biopsy specimens obtained prior to treatment, to avoid any chemotherapy-related effects. Chemotherapy effects were determined employing operative specimens and we defined pathological complete response (pCR) as invasive nest disappearance, based only on the primary breast tumour. We applied receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to data from our 114 patients, to investigate Ki67 expression as a predictor of pCR.

Results

The pCR rate was significantly higher for tumours with high Ki67 expression (p?ConclusionOur results raise the possibility of the luminal HER2-negative subpopulation with Ki67 expression higher than 35% benefiting from chemotherapy, as evidenced by improved survival.

SUBMITTER: Horimoto Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4124146 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ki67 expression and the effect of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy on luminal HER2-negative breast cancer.

Horimoto Yoshiya Y Arakawa Atsushi A Tanabe Masahiko M Sonoue Hiroshi H Igari Fumie F Senuma Koji K Tokuda Emi E Shimizu Hideo H Kosaka Taijiro T Saito Mitsue M

BMC cancer 20140730

<h4>Background</h4>Patients with luminal HER2-negative tumours have a favourable prognosis. However, there is a subpopulation in which poorer outcomes are obtained with endocrine therapy alone. This subpopulation is considered to benefit from chemotherapy. However, the significance of chemotherapy for those with luminal tumours has decreased due to recent changes in treatment strategies. Thus, it is often difficult to determine whether we should recommend chemotherapy to such patients in clinica ...[more]

PMID: 25073969

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Ki67 expression and the effect of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy on luminal HER2-negative breast cancer.

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Ki67 expression and the effect of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy on luminal HER2-negative breast cancer.

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