Circulating tumor cells in early lobular versus ductal breast cancer and their associations with prognosis.


Journal

NPJ breast cancer
ISSN: 2374-4677
Titre abrégé: NPJ Breast Cancer
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101674891

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
26 Feb 2024
Historique:
received: 05 05 2023
accepted: 15 02 2024
medline: 27 2 2024
pubmed: 27 2 2024
entrez: 26 2 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

This is a secondary data analysis of the TIPPING study, which included 1,121 patients with stage I-III breast cancer who had enumeration of CTCs (by either CellSearch or immunomagnetic enrichment and flow cytometry [IE/FC]) and disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) at the time of surgical resection between 1999 and 2012. The primary endpoint was mean number of CTCs by histology, taking into account method of detection and treatment type, and evaluation of histology specific prognostic cutpoints. Overall, patients with ILC had significantly higher CTC counts than those with IDC, a finding which persisted in the 382 patients with CTC enumeration by IE/FC method. Additionally, among those with primary surgery, patients with ILC had significantly higher mean CTC counts than those with IDC (mean 2.11 CTCs/mL versus 0.71 CTCs/mL respectively, p < 0.001), which persisted on multivariate analysis. Patients with ILC and CTC-high/DTC-high status trended towards reduced DRFS HR = 9.27, 95% CI 0.95-90.5, p = 0.055) and had significantly decreased BCSS (HR = 10.4, 95% CI 1.07-99.7, P = 0.043) compared with those who were CTC-low/DTC-low. In the IDC group, CTC-high/DTC-high status was not associated with either DRFS or BCSS. In neoadjvuantly treated patients, there was no significant difference in CTC counts in the ILC group versus the IDC group (mean 0.89 CTCs/mL versus 1.06 CTCs/mL respectively, p = 0.82). Our findings contribute to the limited literature on CTCs and DTCs in ILC, and suggest that clinical utility and optimal thresholds for CTC and DTC assays may differ by histologic subtype in early-stage breast cancer.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38409268
doi: 10.1038/s41523-024-00623-9
pii: 10.1038/s41523-024-00623-9
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

17

Subventions

Organisme : U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ID : K08CA256047

Informations de copyright

© 2024. This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply.

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Auteurs

Silver Alkhafaji (S)

Department of Labaratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. silver.alkhafaji@ucsf.edu.

Denise M Wolf (DM)

Department of Labaratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Mark Jesus M Magbanua (MJM)

Department of Labaratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Laura J van 't Veer (L)

Department of Labaratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

John W Park (JW)

Department of Hematology/Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Laura Esserman (L)

Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Rita A Mukhtar (RA)

Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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