Gene Expression-Based Prediction of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Response in Early Breast Cancer: Results of the Prospective Multicenter EXPRESSION Trial.


Journal

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
ISSN: 1557-3265
Titre abrégé: Clin Cancer Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9502500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
15 04 2021
Historique:
received: 08 07 2020
revised: 20 11 2020
accepted: 01 02 2021
pubmed: 6 2 2021
medline: 15 3 2022
entrez: 5 2 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Expression-based classifiers to predict pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) are not routinely used in the clinic. We aimed to build and validate a classifier for pCR after NACT. We performed a prospective multicenter study (EXPRESSION) including 114 patients treated with anthracycline/taxane-based NACT. Pretreatment core needle biopsies from 91 patients were used for gene expression analysis and classifier construction, followed by validation in five external cohorts ( A 20-gene classifier established in the EXPRESSION cohort using a Youden index-based cut-off point predicted pCR in the validation cohorts with an accuracy, AUC, negative predictive value (NPV), positive predictive value, sensitivity, and specificity of 0.811, 0.768, 0.829, 0.587, 0.216, and 0.962, respectively. Alternatively, aiming for a high NPV by defining the cut-off point for classification based on the complete responder with the lowest predicted probability of pCR in the EXPRESSION cohort led to an NPV of 0.960 upon external validation. With this extreme-low cut-off point, a recommendation to not treat with anthracycline/taxane-based NACT would be possible for 121 of 619 unselected patients (19.5%) and 112 of 322 patients with luminal breast cancer (34.8%). The analysis of the molecular subtypes showed that the identification of patients who do not achieve a pCR by the 20-gene classifier was particularly relevant in luminal breast cancer. The novel 20-gene classifier reliably identifies patients who do not achieve a pCR in about one third of luminal breast cancers in both the EXPRESSION and combined validation cohorts.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33542080
pii: 1078-0432.CCR-20-2662
doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-2662
doi:

Substances chimiques

Biomarkers, Tumor 0

Types de publication

Clinical Trial, Phase II Journal Article Multicenter Study Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Validation Study

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

2148-2158

Informations de copyright

©2021 American Association for Cancer Research.

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Auteurs

Karolina Edlund (K)

Leibniz-Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the TU Dortmund (IfADo), Dortmund, Germany.

Katrin Madjar (K)

Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany.

Antje Lebrecht (A)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Bahriye Aktas (B)

Department of Gynecology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

Henryk Pilch (H)

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Köln, Köln, Germany.

Gerald Hoffmann (G)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Josefs-Hospital, Wiesbaden, Germany.

Manfred Hofmann (M)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vinzenz von Paul Kliniken gGmbH Marienhospital, Stuttgart, Germany.

Hans-Christian Kolberg (HC)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Marien-Hospital, Bottrop, Germany.

Daniel Boehm (D)

Center of Minimal Invasive Surgery, Senology and Oncology, mic.ma.mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Marco Battista (M)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Martina Seehase (M)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Kathrin Stewen (K)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Susanne Gebhard (S)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Cristina Cadenas (C)

Leibniz-Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the TU Dortmund (IfADo), Dortmund, Germany.

Rosemarie Marchan (R)

Leibniz-Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the TU Dortmund (IfADo), Dortmund, Germany.

Walburgis Brenner (W)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Annette Hasenburg (A)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Heinz Koelbl (H)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Vienna Medical School, Vienna, Austria.

Christine Solbach (C)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

Mathias Gehrmann (M)

Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany.

Berno Tanner (B)

Practice for Gynecological Oncology, Hoen Neuendorf, Germany.

Karsten E Weber (KE)

German Breast Group (GBG), Neu-Isenburg, Germany.

Sibylle Loibl (S)

German Breast Group (GBG), Neu-Isenburg, Germany.

Agapios Sachinidis (A)

Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Neurophysiology and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

Jörg Rahnenführer (J)

Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany.

Marcus Schmidt (M)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Jan G Hengstler (JG)

Leibniz-Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the TU Dortmund (IfADo), Dortmund, Germany. hengstler@ifado.de.

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