Predictive factors of 5-year relapse-free survival in HR+/HER2- breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant endocrine therapy: pooled analysis of two phase 2 trials.

Background: Few data are available on survival and predictive factors in early breast cancer (BC) patients treated with neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (NET).

Methods: This is a pooled analysis of two multicentre, randomised non-comparative phase 2 clinical trials evaluating neoadjuvant anastrozole and fulvestrant efficacy for postmenopausal HR+/HER2- breast cancer patients: HORGEN (NCT00871858) and CARMINA02 (NCT00629616) studies.

Results: In total, 236 patients were included in CARMINA02 and HORGEN trials.

Genetic Heterogeneity in Therapy-Naïve Synchronous Primary Breast Cancers and Their Metastases.

Paired primary breast cancers and metachronous metastases after adjuvant treatment are reported to differ in their clonal composition and genetic alterations, but it is unclear whether these differences stem from the selective pressures of the metastatic process, the systemic therapies, or both. We sought to define the repertoire of genetic alterations in breast cancer patients with metastatic disease who had not received local or systemic therapy. Up to two anatomically distinct core biopsies of primary breast cancers and synchronous distant metastases from nine patients who presented with metastatic disease were subjected to high-depth whole-exome sequencing.

Randomized phase 2 neoadjuvant trial evaluating anastrozole and fulvestrant efficacy for postmenopausal, estrogen receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer patients: Results of the UNICANCER CARMINA 02 French trial (UCBG 0609).

Background: Treatment strategies for locally advanced breast cancer in elderly patients too frail to receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy and the introduction of new classes of drugs in the early 2000s have led to the consideration of endocrine therapy as a neoadjuvant treatment for younger hormone receptor (HR)-positive, postmenopausal patients not eligible for primary breast-conserving surgery (BCS).

Methods: This was a multicenter, phase 2, randomized trial designed to evaluate as its primary objective the clinical response rate after up to 6 months of neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (NET) alone in HR-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative patients with 1 mg of anastrozole (arm A) or 500 mg of fulvestrant (arm B). Secondary objectives included the BCS rate, tumor response assessment (breast ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging), pathological response (Sataloff classification), safety profile, relapse-free survival (RFS), and predictive markers of responses and outcomes.

Reasons of not having breast reconstruction: a historical cohort of 1937 breast cancer patients undergoing mastectomy.

Background: The aims of the study were to investigate the factors associated with not having breast reconstruction following mastectomy and to assess patient satisfaction with information on reconstruction.

Patients And Methods: We analysed a historical cohort of 1937 consecutive patients who underwent mastectomy at Institut Curie between January 2004 and February 2007. Their sociodemographic and clinicobiological characteristics were recorded in a prospective database.

[Update of the GEFPICS' recommendations for HER2 status determination in breast cancers in France].

In Europe, patients who may benefit from an HER2 targeted drug are currently selected by immunohistochemistry (IHC). In situ hybridization (ISH) techniques should be used for complementary assessment of ambiguous 2+ IHC cases and for the calibration of the IHC technique. Eligibility to an HER2 target treatment is defined by an HER2 positive status being IHC test 3+ or 2+ amplified.