British journal of cancer. 2014 Jul 8. pii: bjc2014339. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2014.339. pmc: PMC4150264 |
The multigene signature MammaPrint impacts on multidisciplinary team decisions in ER+, HER2- early breast cancer. |
Exner R1, Bago-Horvath Z2, Bartsch R3, Mittlboeck M4, Retèl VP5, Fitzal F6, Rudas M7, Singer C8, Pfeiler G9, Gnant M10, Jakesz R11, Dubsky P12 |
Abstract BACKGROUND: Validated multigene signatures (MGS) provide additional prognostic information when evaluating clinical features of ER(+), HER2(-) early breast cancer. We have studied the quantitative and qualitative impact of MGS on multidisciplinary team (MDT) recommendations. METHODS: We prospectively recruited 75 ER(+), HER2(-) breast cancer patients. Inclusion was based on biopsy assessment of grade, hormone receptor status, HER2, clinical tumour and nodal status. A fresh tissue sample was sent for MammaPrint (MP), TargetPrint analysis at surgery. Clinical risk was decided by the MDT in the absence of MP results and repeated following the collection of MP results. Decision changes were recorded and a health technology assessment was undertaken to compare cost effectiveness. RESULTS: The majority of patients were assigned low to intermediate clinical risk by the MDT. According to MP, 76% were low risk. A very high correlation between local IHC and the TargetPrint assessment was shown. In over a third of patients, discordance between clinical and molecular risk was observed. Decision changes were recorded in half of these cases (18.6%) and resulted in two out of three patients not requiring chemotherapy. The use of MP was also found to be more cost effective. CONCLUSIONS: The multigene signature MP revealed clinical and molecular risk discordance in a third of patients. The impact of this on MDT recommendations was most profound in cases where few clinical risk factors were observed and enabled some women to forgo chemotherapy. The use of MGS is unlikely to have an impact in either clinically low-risk women or in patients with more than one relative indication for chemotherapy. |
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