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Pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy is an independent predictive factor irrespective of simplified breast cancer intrinsic subtypes: A landmark and two-step approach analyses from the EORTC 10994/BIG 1-00 phase III trial

par Bonnefoi, Herve;Litière, Saskia;Piccart-Gebhart, Martine ;MacGrogan, Gaetan;Fumoleau, Pierre;Brain, Etienne;Petit, Thierry;Rouanet, Philippe;Jassem, Jacek;Moldovan, Cristian;Bodmer, Alexandre;Zaman, Khalil;Cufer, Tanja;Campone, Mario;Luporsi, Élisabeth E.;Malmström, Per Olof P.;Werutsky, Gustavo;Bogaerts, Jan;Bergh, Jonas;Cameron, David A
Référence Annals of oncology, 25, 6, page (1128-1136)
Publication Publié, 2014

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Background: Pathological complete response (pCR) following chemotherapy is strongly associated with both breast cancer subtype and long-term survival. Within a phase III neoadjuvant chemotherapy trial, we sought to determine whether the prognostic implications of pCR, TP53 status and treatment arm (taxane versus non-taxane) differed between intrinsic subtypes. Patients and methods: Patients were randomized to receive either six cycles of anthracycline-based chemotherapy or three cycles of docetaxel then three cycles of eprirubicin/docetaxel (T-ET). pCR was defined as no evidence of residual invasive cancer (or very few scattered tumour cells) in primary tumour and lymph nodes. We used a simplified intrinsic subtypes classification, as suggested by the 2011 St Gallen consensus. Interactions between pCR, TP53 status, treatment arm and intrinsic subtype on event-free survival (EFS), distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) and overall survival (OS) were studied using a landmark and a two-step approach multivariate analyses. Results: Sufficient data for pCR analyses were available in 1212 (65%) of 1856 patients randomized. pCR occurred in 222 of 1212 (18%) patients: 37 of 496 (7.5%) luminal A, 22 of 147 (15%) luminal B/HER2 negative, 51 of 230 (22%) luminal B/HER2 positive, 43 of 118 (36%) HER2 positive/non-luminal, 69 of 221(31%) triple negative (TN). The prognostic effect of pCR on EFS did not differ between subtypes and was an independent predictor for better EFS [hazard ratio (HR) = 0.40, P < 0.001 in favour of pCR], DMFS (HR = 0.32, P < 0.001) and OS (HR = 0.32, P < 0.001). Chemotherapy arm was an independent predictor only for EFS (HR = 0.73, P = 0.004 in favour of T-ET). The interaction between TP53, intrinsic subtypes and survival outcomes only approached statistical significance for EFS (P = 0.1). Conclusions: pCR is an independent predictor of favourable clinical outcomes in all molecular subtypes in a two-step multivariate analysis. © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society for Medical Oncology.