Multi-center retrospective evaluation of a RNA expression classifier to predict pathological complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer biopsies
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ABSTRACT: We developed a test to predict which patients will achieve pCR to NAC, and which will have residual disease (RD). A retrospective collection of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) pretreatment biopsies from 222 multi-institutional breast cancer patients treated with NAC, including 90 TNBC patients, were processed using standard procedures. MNovel machine learning algorithms and statistical cross-validation were used to develop predictive classifiers based on RNA-seq differential gene expression analysis of patient samples. Two mRNA classifiers of 18 genes and 15 genes were sequentially applied to the total cohort, clustering patients into three distinct classes. The test accurately identified 83.75% of pCR and 86.62% of RD patients in the total population, and 92.10% of pCR and 80.77% of RD patients in the TNBC subset. The TNBC RD patients were subdivided by our classifiers, with one class showing significantly higher levels of Ki-67 expression and having significantly poorer survival rates than the other classes. Stratification of patients may allow identification of TNBC patients with the worst prognosis prior to NAC, allowing for personalized treatments with the potential to improve patient outcomes.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE163882 | GEO | 2021/03/01
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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