TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical relevance of HER2 overexpression/amplification in patients with small tumor size and node-negative breast cancer
AU - Curigliano, Giuseppe
AU - Viale, Giuseppe
AU - Bagnardi, Vincenzo
AU - Fumagalli, Luca
AU - Locatelli, Marzia
AU - Rotmensz, Nicole
AU - Ghisini, Raffaella
AU - Colleoni, Marco
AU - Munzone, Elisabetta
AU - Veronesi, Paolo
AU - Zurrida, Stefano
AU - Nolè, Franco
AU - Goldhirsch, Aron
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - Purpose: To assess the prognostic role of HER2 overexpression/amplification in patients with node-negative, pT1a-b breast cancers. Patients and Methods: All patients with HER2-positive breast cancer were identified among a population of 2,130 patients whose diseases were staged as pT1a-b, pN0 and who underwent surgery at the European Institute of Oncology from 1999 to 2006. A matched cohort was selected by using variables of hormone receptor status, age, and year of surgery. We estimated rates of local and distant recurrence, disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival (OS) in the two groups. Results: We identified 150 consecutive patients with pT1a-b, pN0, HER2-positive tumors. No patient received adjuvant trastuzumab. The median follow-up was 4.6 years (range, 1.0 to 9.0 years). In the hormone receptor-positive group, 5-year DFS rates were 99% (95% CI, 96% to 100%) for HER2-negative disease and 92% (95% CI, 86% to 99%) for HER2-positive disease. In the hormone receptor-negative group, 5-year DFS rates were 92% (95% CI, 84% to 100%) for HER2-negative disease and 91% (95% CI, 84% to 99%) for HER2-positive disease. Overall, the hazard ratio (HR) associated with HER2 overexpression was 2.4 (95% CI, 0.9 to 6.5; P = .09). After analysis was adjusted for pT1 stage, hormone receptor-positive disease with HER2-positive status was associated with a worse prognosis (HR, 5.1; 95% CI, 1.0 to 25.7). OS in HER2-positive, pT1a-b, pN0 breast cancer was similar irrespective of the hormone receptor status (P = .93). Conclusion: Patients with node-negative, HER2 positive, pT1a-b breast cancer have a low risk of recurrence at 5 years of follow-up. In patients with hormone receptor-positive disease and pT1a-b, N0 tumors, HER2 overexpression was associated with a worse DFS.
AB - Purpose: To assess the prognostic role of HER2 overexpression/amplification in patients with node-negative, pT1a-b breast cancers. Patients and Methods: All patients with HER2-positive breast cancer were identified among a population of 2,130 patients whose diseases were staged as pT1a-b, pN0 and who underwent surgery at the European Institute of Oncology from 1999 to 2006. A matched cohort was selected by using variables of hormone receptor status, age, and year of surgery. We estimated rates of local and distant recurrence, disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival (OS) in the two groups. Results: We identified 150 consecutive patients with pT1a-b, pN0, HER2-positive tumors. No patient received adjuvant trastuzumab. The median follow-up was 4.6 years (range, 1.0 to 9.0 years). In the hormone receptor-positive group, 5-year DFS rates were 99% (95% CI, 96% to 100%) for HER2-negative disease and 92% (95% CI, 86% to 99%) for HER2-positive disease. In the hormone receptor-negative group, 5-year DFS rates were 92% (95% CI, 84% to 100%) for HER2-negative disease and 91% (95% CI, 84% to 99%) for HER2-positive disease. Overall, the hazard ratio (HR) associated with HER2 overexpression was 2.4 (95% CI, 0.9 to 6.5; P = .09). After analysis was adjusted for pT1 stage, hormone receptor-positive disease with HER2-positive status was associated with a worse prognosis (HR, 5.1; 95% CI, 1.0 to 25.7). OS in HER2-positive, pT1a-b, pN0 breast cancer was similar irrespective of the hormone receptor status (P = .93). Conclusion: Patients with node-negative, HER2 positive, pT1a-b breast cancer have a low risk of recurrence at 5 years of follow-up. In patients with hormone receptor-positive disease and pT1a-b, N0 tumors, HER2 overexpression was associated with a worse DFS.
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U2 - 10.1200/JCO.2009.22.0962
DO - 10.1200/JCO.2009.22.0962
M3 - Article
C2 - 19884553
AN - SCOPUS:73349142700
VL - 27
SP - 5693
EP - 5699
JO - Journal of Clinical Oncology
JF - Journal of Clinical Oncology
SN - 0732-183X
IS - 34
ER -