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Mills C, Sud A, Everall A, Chubb D, Lawrence SED, Kinnersley B, Cornish AJ, Bentham R, Houlston RS. Genetic landscape of interval and screen detected breast cancer. NPJ Precis Oncol 2024; 8:122. [PMID: 38806682 PMCID: PMC11133314 DOI: 10.1038/s41698-024-00618-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 05/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024] Open
Abstract
Interval breast cancers (IBCs) are cancers diagnosed between screening episodes. Understanding the biological differences between IBCs and screen-detected breast-cancers (SDBCs) has the potential to improve mammographic screening and patient management. We analysed and compared the genomic landscape of 288 IBCs and 473 SDBCs by whole genome sequencing of paired tumour-normal patient samples collected as part of the UK 100,000 Genomes Project. Compared to SDBCs, IBCs were more likely to be lobular, higher grade, and triple negative. A more aggressive clinical phenotype was reflected in IBCs displaying features of genomic instability including a higher mutation rate and number of chromosomal structural abnormalities, defective homologous recombination and TP53 mutations. We did not however, find evidence to indicate that IBCs are associated with a significantly different immune response. While IBCs do not represent a unique molecular class of invasive breast cancer they exhibit a more aggressive phenotype, which is likely to be a consequence of the timing of tumour initiation. This information is relevant both with respect to treatment as well as informing the screening interval for mammography.
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Affiliation(s)
- Charlie Mills
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Centre of Immuno-Oncology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK
- University College London Cancer Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK
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- University College London Cancer Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK.
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Timmermans L, De Brabander I, Van Damme N, Bleyen L, Martens P, Van Herck K, Thierens H, Bacher K, Depypere H. Tumour characteristics of screen-detected and interval cancers in the Flemish Breast Cancer Screening Programme: A mammographic breast density study. Maturitas 2022; 158:55-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Revised: 07/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Lee JM, Ichikawa LE, Wernli KJ, Bowles E, Specht JM, Kerlikowske K, Miglioretti DL, Lowry KP, Tosteson ANA, Stout NK, Houssami N, Onega T, Buist DSM. Digital Mammography and Breast Tomosynthesis Performance in Women with a Personal History of Breast Cancer, 2007-2016. Radiology 2021; 300:290-300. [PMID: 34003059 PMCID: PMC8328154 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2021204581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Background Since 2007, digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) replaced screen-film mammography. Whether these technologic advances have improved diagnostic performance has, to the knowledge of the authors, not yet been established. Purpose To evaluate the performance and outcomes of surveillance mammography (digital mammography and DBT) performed from 2007 to 2016 in women with a personal history of breast cancer and compare with data from 1996 to 2007 and the performance of digital mammography screening benchmarks. Materials and Methods In this observational cohort study, five Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium registries provided prospectively collected mammography data linked with tumor registry and pathologic outcomes. This study identified asymptomatic women with American Joint Committee on Cancer anatomic stages 0-III primary breast cancer who underwent surveillance mammography from 2007 to 2016. The primary outcome was a second breast cancer diagnosis within 1 year of mammography. Performance measures included the recall rate, cancer detection rate, interval cancer rate, positive predictive value of biopsy recommendation, sensitivity, and specificity. Results Among 32 331 women who underwent 117 971 surveillance mammographic examinations (112 269 digital mammographic examinations and 5702 DBT examinations), the mean age at initial diagnosis was 59 years ± 12 (standard deviation). Of 1418 second breast cancers diagnosed, 998 were surveillance-detected cancers and 420 were interval cancers. The recall rate was 8.8% (10 365 of 117 971; 95% CI: 8.6%, 9.0%), the cancer detection rate was 8.5 per 1000 examinations (998 of 117 971; 95% CI: 8.0, 9.0), the interval cancer rate was 3.6 per 1000 examinations (420 of 117 971; 95% CI: 3.2, 3.9), the positive predictive value of biopsy recommendation was 31.0% (998 of 3220; 95% CI: 29.4%, 32.7%), the sensitivity was 70.4% (998 of 1418; 95% CI: 67.9%, 72.7%), and the specificity was 98.1% (114 331 of 116 553; 95% CI: 98.0%, 98.2%). Compared with previously published studies, interval cancer rate was comparable with rates from 1996 to 2007 in women with a personal history of breast cancer and was higher than the published digital mammography screening benchmarks. Conclusion In transitioning from screen-film to digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis, surveillance mammography performance demonstrated minimal improvement over time and remained inferior to the performance of screening mammography benchmarks. © RSNA, 2021 Online supplemental material is available for this article. See also the editorial by Moy and Gao in this issue.
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Affiliation(s)
- Janie M. Lee
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Karen J. Wernli
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Erin Bowles
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Jennifer M. Specht
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Karla Kerlikowske
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Diana L. Miglioretti
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Kathryn P. Lowry
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Natasha K. Stout
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Nehmat Houssami
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Tracy Onega
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
| | - Diana S. M. Buist
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.M.L., K.P.L.) and Medicine
(J.M.S.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash; Seattle
Cancer Care Alliance, 1144 Eastlake Ave East, LG2-200, Seattle, WA 98109
(J.M.L., J.M.S., K.P.L.); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research
Institute, Seattle, Wash (L.E.I., K.J.W., E.B., D.L.M., D.S.M.B.); Department of
Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine,
Pasadena, Calif (K.J.W., D.S.M.B.); Department of Medicine, Division of General
Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San
Francisco, Calif (K.K.); Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health
Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, Calif
(D.L.M.); Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (A.N.A.T.,
T.O.) and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (A.N.A.T.), Geisel School of Medicine,
Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard
Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard University,
Boston, Mass (N.K.S.); Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public
Health, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (N.H.); and Huntsman
Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.O.)
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Cabioğlu N, Gürdal SÖ, Kayhan A, Özaydın N, Şahin C, Can Ö, Özçınar B, Aykuter G, Vatandaş G, Aribal E, Özmen V. Poor Biological Factors and Prognosis of Interval Breast Cancers: Long-Term Results of Bahçeşehir (Istanbul) Breast Cancer Screening Project in Turkey. JCO Glob Oncol 2021; 6:1103-1113. [PMID: 32678710 PMCID: PMC7392766 DOI: 10.1200/go.20.00145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE The Turkish Bahçeşehir Breast Cancer Screening Project was a 10-year, organized, population-based screening program carried out in Bahçeşehir county, Istanbul. Our aim was to examine the biologic features and outcome of screen-detected and interval breast cancers during the 10-year study period. METHODS Between 2009 and 2019, 2-view mammograms were obtained at 2-year intervals for women aged 40 to 69 years. Clinicopathological characteristics including ER, PR, HER2-neu, and Ki-67 status were analyzed for those diagnosed with breast cancer. RESULTS In 8,758 screened women, 131 breast cancers (1.5%) were detected. The majority of patients (82.3%) had prognostic stage 0-I disease. Contrarily, patients with interval cancers (n = 15; 11.4%) were more likely to have a worse prognostic stage (II-IV disease; odds ratio [OR], 3.59, 95% CI, 0.9 to 14.5) and high Ki-67 scores (OR, 3.14; 95% CI, 0.9 to 11.2). Interval cancers detected within 1 year were more likely to have a luminal B (57.1% v 31.9%) and triple-negative (14.3% v 1%) subtype and less likely to have a luminal A subtype (28.6% v 61.5%; P = .04). Patients with interval cancers had a poor outcome in 10-year disease-specific (DSS) and disease-free survival (DFS) compared with those with screen-detected cancers (DSS: 68.2% v 98.1%, P = .002; DFS: 78.6% v 96.5%, P = .011). CONCLUSION Our findings suggest the majority of screen-detected breast cancers exhibited a luminal A subtype profile with an excellent prognosis. However, interval cancers were more likely to have aggressive subtypes such as luminal B subtype or triple-negative cancers associated with a poor prognosis requiring other preventive strategies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Neslihan Cabioğlu
- Department of Surgery, Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Surgery, Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Medicine, Tekirdag, Turkey
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- Department of Radiology, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University Faculty of Medicine, Erzincan, Turkey
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- Department of Public Health, Marmara University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Radiology, Şişli Etfal Research and Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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- MEMEDER Screening Center, Bahçeşehir, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Surgery, Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
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- MEMEDER Screening Center, Bahçeşehir, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Radiology, Acıbadem University, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Surgery, Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
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Alanko J, Tanner M, Vanninen R, Auvinen A, Isola J. Triple-negative and HER2-positive breast cancers found by mammography screening show excellent prognosis. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2021; 187:267-274. [PMID: 33420595 PMCID: PMC8062374 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-020-06060-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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PURPOSE Our purpose was to explore the prognosis of aggressive breast cancers of the HER2 oncogene amplification (HER2 +) and triple-negative (TN) subtypes detected by screening, as well as the prognosis of interval cancers (clinically due to symptoms between screening rounds) and cancers in screening nonparticipants. METHODS The study population comprised of 823 breast cancers in women aged 50-69 years from 2006-2014. Of these, 572 were found by screening mammography (69%), 170 were diagnosed between the screening rounds (21%), and 81 were diagnosed in women who did not participate in the screening program (10%). RESULTS The majority of all HER2 + (59%) and TN cancers (57%) in this age group were detected by screening. Screen-detected HER2 + tumors were small (median 12 mm), and node-negative (84%). During a median follow-up of eight years, the distant disease-free survival of screen-detected HER2 + and TN cancers was better than that of interval and nonparticipant cancers (age-adjusted HR = 0.16, 95% CI 0.03-0.81 and HR = 0.09, 95% CI 0.01-0.79, respectively). In nonparticipants, the distant disease-free survival of these cancers was worse than in participants (age-adjusted HR = 2.52, 95% CI 0.63-10.11 and HR = 5.30, 95% 1.16-24.29, respectively). CONCLUSION In the 50-69 age group, the majority of HER2 + and TN cancers can be found by a quality assured population-based mammography screening. Despite their generally aggressive behavior, after a median follow-up of 8 years, distant disease-free survival was over 90% of these cancers detected by screening. The worst prognosis of these cancers was in women who did not participate in screening.
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- Johanna Alanko
- Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Screening Clinic of Terveystalo, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
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- Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University and Tays Cancer Centre, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Faculty of Social Sciences (Health Sciences), Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Jilab Inc., Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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Emerson MA, Reeder-Hayes KE, Tipaldos HJ, Bell ME, Sweeney MR, Carey LA, Earp HS, Olshan AF, Troester MA. Integrating biology and access to care in addressing breast cancer disparities: 25 years' research experience in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. CURRENT BREAST CANCER REPORTS 2020; 12:149-160. [PMID: 33815665 DOI: 10.1007/s12609-020-00365-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Purpose of Review To review research on breast cancer mortality disparities, emphasizing research conducted in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, with a focus on challenges and opportunities for integration of tumor biology and access characteristics across the cancer care continuum. Recent Findings Black women experience higher mortality following breast cancer diagnosis, despite lower incidence compared to white women. Biological factors, such as stage at diagnosis and breast cancer subtypes, play a role in these disparities. Simultaneously, social, behavioral, environmental, and access to care factors are important. However, integrated studies of biology and access are challenging and it is uncommon to have both data types available in the same study population. The central emphasis of Phase 3 of the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, initiated in 2008, was to collect rich data on biology (including germline and tumor genomics and pathology) and health care access in a diverse study population, with the long term goal of defining intervention opportunities to reduce disparities across the cancer care continuum. Summary Early and ongoing research from CBCS has identified important interactions between biology and access, leading to opportunities to build greater equity. However, sample size, population-specific relationships among variables, and complexities of treatment paths along the care continuum pose important research challenges. Interdisciplinary teams, including experts in novel data integration and causal inference, are needed to address gaps in our understanding of breast cancer disparities.
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- Marc A Emerson
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Factors Associated with Initial Mode of Breast Cancer Detection among Black Women in the Women's Circle of Health Study. JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY 2019; 2019:3529651. [PMID: 31354818 PMCID: PMC6637674 DOI: 10.1155/2019/3529651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2019] [Revised: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mammogram-detected breast cancers have a better prognosis than those identified through clinical breast exam (CBE) or through self-detection, primarily because tumors detected by mammography are more likely to be smaller and do not involve regional nodes. In a sample of 1,322 Black women, aged 40-75 years, diagnosed with breast cancer between 2002 and 2016, we evaluated factors associated with CBE and self-detection versus screening mammogram as the initial mode of breast cancer detection, using multivariable logistic regression models. Compared with screening mammogram, history of routine screening mammogram (OR 0.20, 95% CI: 0.07, 0.54) and performance of breast self-examination (BSE) (OR 0.31, 95% CI: 0.13, 0.74) before diagnosis were associated with lower odds of CBE as the initial mode of detection, while performance of CBEs before diagnosis (OR 11.04, 95% CI: 2.24, 54.55) was positively associated. Lower body mass index (<25.0 kg/m2 vs. ≥35.0 kg/m2: OR 2.46, 95% CI: 1.52, 3.98), performance of BSEs before diagnosis (less than once per month: OR 4.08, 95% CI: 2.45, 6.78; at least monthly: OR 4.99, 95% CI: 3.13, 7.97), and larger tumor size (1.0-2.0 cm vs. <1.0 cm: OR 2.92, 95% CI: 1.84, 4.64; >2.0 cm vs. <1.0 cm: OR 6.41, 95% CI: 3.30, 12.46) were associated with increased odds of self-detection relative to screening mammogram. The odds of CBE and self-detection as initial modes of breast cancer detection among Black women are independently associated with breast care and breast cancer screening services before diagnosis and with larger tumors at diagnosis.
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Puvanesarajah S, Gapstur SM, Patel AV, Sherman ME, Flanders WD, Gansler T, Troester MA, Gaudet MM. Mode of detection and breast cancer mortality by follow-up time and tumor characteristics among screened women in Cancer Prevention Study-II. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2019; 177:679-689. [PMID: 31264062 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-019-05322-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Accepted: 06/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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PURPOSE In a screened population, breast cancer-specific mortality is lower for screen-detected versus symptom-detected breast cancers; however, it is unclear whether this association varies by follow-up time and/or tumor characteristics. To further understand the prognostic utility of mode of detection, we examined its association with breast cancer-specific mortality, overall and by follow-up time, estrogen receptor status, tumor size, and grade. METHODS In the Cancer Prevention Study-II Nutrition Cohort, 3975 routinely screened women were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer (1992-2015). Among 2686 screen-detected and 1289 symptom-detected breast cancers, 206 and 209 breast cancer deaths, respectively, occurred up to 24 years post diagnosis. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated from Cox proportional hazard regression models. RESULTS Controlling for prognostic factors, symptom detection was associated with higher risk of breast cancer-specific death up to 5 years after diagnosis (HR≤5years = 1.88, 95% CI 1.21-2.91) this association was attenuated in subsequent follow-up (HR>5years = 1.26, 95% CI 0.98-1.63). Within tumor characteristic strata, there was a 1.3-2.7-fold higher risk of breast cancer death associated with symptom-detected cancers ≤ 5 years of follow-up, although associations were only significant for women with tumors < 2 cm (HR≤5years = 2.42, 95% CI 1.19-4.93) and for women with grade 1 or 2 tumors (HR≤5years = 2.72, 95% CI 1.33-5.57). In subsequent follow-up, associations were closer to the null. CONCLUSIONS Screen detection is a powerful prognostic factor for short-term survival. Among women who survived at least 5 years after breast cancer diagnosis, other clinical factors may be more predictive of breast cancer survival.
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- Samantha Puvanesarajah
- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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Cheasley D, Li N, Rowley SM, Elder K, Mann GB, Loi S, Savas P, Goode DL, Kader T, Zethoven M, Semple T, Fox SB, Pang JM, Byrne D, Devereux L, Nickson C, Procopio P, Lee G, Hughes S, Saunders H, Fujihara KM, Kuykhoven K, Connaughton J, James PA, Gorringe KL, Campbell IG. Molecular comparison of interval and screen-detected breast cancers. J Pathol 2019; 248:243-252. [PMID: 30746706 DOI: 10.1002/path.5251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Breast cancer (BC) diagnosed after a negative mammogram but prior to the next screening episode is termed an 'interval BC' (IBC). Understanding the molecular differences between IBC and screen-detected BCs (SDBC) could improve mammographic screening and management options. Therefore, we assessed both germline and somatic genomic aberrations in a prospective cohort. Utilising the Lifepool cohort of >54 000 women attending mammographic screening programs, 930 BC cases with screening status were identified (726 SDBC and 204 IBC). Clinico-pathological and family history information were recorded. Germline and tumour DNA were collected where available and sequenced for BC predisposition and driver gene mutations. Compared to SDBC, IBCs were significantly associated with a younger age at diagnosis and tumour characteristics associated with worse prognosis. Germline DNA assessment of BC cases that developed post-enrolment (276 SDBCs and 77 IBCs) for pathogenic mutations in 12 hereditary BC predisposition genes identified 8 carriers (2.27%). The germline mutation frequency was higher in IBC versus SDBC, although not statistically significant (3.90% versus 1.81%, p = 0.174). Comparing somatic genetic features of IBC and SDBC matched for grade, histological subtype and hormone receptor revealed no significant differences, with the exception of higher homologous recombination deficiency scores in IBC, and copy number changes on chromosome Xq in triple negative SDBCs. Our data demonstrates that while IBCs are clinically more aggressive than SDBC, when matched for confounding clinico-pathological features they do not represent a unique molecular class of invasive BC, but could be a consequence of timing of tumour initiation and mammographic screening. Copyright © 2019 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Dane Cheasley
- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,The Royal Melbourne and Royal Women's Hospitals, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.,The Edinburgh Breast Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,The Royal Melbourne and Royal Women's Hospitals, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Division of Clinical Medicine and Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Division of Clinical Medicine and Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Bioinformatics Consulting Core, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Genomics Core, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Lifepool, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Cancer Genetics and Genomics Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Perron L, Chang SL, Daigle JM, Vandal N, Theberge I, Diorio C, Lemieux J, Pelletier E, Brisson J. Breast cancer subtype and screening sensitivity in the Quebec Mammography Screening Program. J Med Screen 2018; 26:154-161. [PMID: 30572782 DOI: 10.1177/0969141318816736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Objective In mammography screening, interval cancers present a problem. The metric ‘screening sensitivity’ monitors both how well a programme detects cancers and avoids interval cancers. To our knowledge, the effect of breast cancer surrogate molecular subtypes on screening sensitivity has never been evaluated. We aimed to measure the 2-year screening sensitivity according to breast cancer subtypes. Methods We studied 734 women with an invasive breast cancer diagnosed between 2003 and 2007 after participating in one regional division of Quebec’s Mammography Screening Program. They represented 83% of all participating women with an invasive BC diagnosis in that region for that period. Tumours were categorized into ‘luminal A-like’, ‘luminal B-like’, ‘triple-negative’ and ‘HER2-positive’ subtypes. We used logistic regression and marginal standardization to estimate screening sensitivity, sensitivity ratios (SR) and sensitivity differences. We also assessed the mediating effect of grade. Results Adjusted 2-year screening sensitivity was 75.4% in luminal A-like, 66.1% in luminal B-like, 52.9% in triple-negative and 45.3% in HER2-positive, translating into sensitivity ratios of 0.88 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.78–0.98) for luminal B-like, 0.70 (CI = 0.56–0.88) for triple-negative and 0.60 (CI = 0.39–0.93) for HER2-positive, when compared with luminal A-like. Grade entirely mediated the subtype-sensitivity association for triple negative and mediated it partly for HER2-positive. Screening round (prevalent vs. incident) did not modify results. Conclusion There was substantial variation in screening sensitivity according to breast cancer subtypes. Aggressive phenotypes showed the lowest sensitivity, an effect that was mediated by grade. Tailoring screening according to women’s subtype risk factors might eventually lead to more efficient programs.
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- Linda Perron
- 1 Institut national de sante publique du Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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- 2 Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- 1 Institut national de sante publique du Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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- 2 Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- 2 Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- 1 Institut national de sante publique du Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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- 2 Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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Puliti D, Zappa M, Giorgi Rossi P, Pierpaoli E, Manneschi G, Ambrogetti D, Ventura L, Mantellini P. Volumetric breast density and risk of advanced cancers after a negative screening episode: a cohort study. Breast Cancer Res 2018; 20:95. [PMID: 30092817 PMCID: PMC6085631 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-018-1025-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND We evaluated the association between volumetric breast density (BD) and risk of advanced cancers after a negative screening episode. METHODS A cohort of 16,752 women aged 49-54 years at their first screening mammography in the Florence screening programme was followed for breast cancer (BC) incidence until the second screening round. Volumetric BD was measured using fully automated software. The cumulative incidence of advanced cancer after a negative screening episode (including stage II or more severe cancer during the screening interval - on average 28 months - and at the subsequent round) was calculated separately for Volpara density grade (VDG) categories. RESULTS BC incidence gradually increased with the increas in BD: 3.7‰, 5.1‰, 5.4‰ and 9.1‰ in the VDG categories 1-4, respectively (p trend < 0.001). The risk of advanced cancers after a negative screening episode was 1.0‰, 1.3‰, 1.1‰, and 4.2‰ (p trend = 0.003). The highest BD category, compared with the other three together, has double the invasive BC risk (RR = 2.0; 95% CI 1.5-2.8) and almost fourfold risk of advanced cancer (RR = 3.8; 95% CI 1.8-8.0). CONCLUSION BD has a strong impact on the risk of advanced cancers after a negative screening episode, the best early surrogate of BC mortality. Therefore, our results suggest that screening effectiveness is quite different among BD categories.
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- Donella Puliti
- Clinical Epidemiology Unit, ISPRO - Oncological network, prevention and research institute, Via delle Oblate 4, 50141 Florence, Italy
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- Clinical Epidemiology Unit, ISPRO - Oncological network, prevention and research institute, Via delle Oblate 4, 50141 Florence, Italy
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- Interinstitutional Epidemiology Unit, 42122 AUSL Reggio Emilia, Italy and Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova-IRCCS, 42123 Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- Screening Unit, ISPRO - Oncological network, prevention and research institute, Florence, Italy
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- Clinical Epidemiology Unit, ISPRO - Oncological network, prevention and research institute, Via delle Oblate 4, 50141 Florence, Italy
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- Screening Unit, ISPRO - Oncological network, prevention and research institute, Florence, Italy
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- Clinical Epidemiology Unit, ISPRO - Oncological network, prevention and research institute, Via delle Oblate 4, 50141 Florence, Italy
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- Screening Unit, ISPRO - Oncological network, prevention and research institute, Florence, Italy
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Xu Y, Pan B, Zhou YD, Yao R, Zhu QL, Zhang J, Mao F, Lin Y, Shen SJ, Sun Q. Mammography-detected ultrasound-negative asymptomatic micro-calcifications in Chinese women: Would it be safe to watch and wait? Med Hypotheses 2018; 118:9-12. [PMID: 30037622 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2018.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 06/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Although mammography (MG) has been widely used for breast cancer screening in the western world, over-diagnosis remains controversial. Milestone studies showed that ultrasound (US) was an effective primary screening test for breast cancer both in the western world and in China. US improves the sensitivity of screening in Chinese women who have denser breasts and develop breast cancer earlier than Caucasian counterparts, and is used as the primary imaging test in the hospital-based opportunistic screening among asymptomatic self-referred women. Our previous work showed that US result might further differentiate the MG-detected breast cancers into low risk (US+) and ultra-low risk (US-). Indeed, most of the MG+/US- breast cancers would be ultra-low risk cancers and almost always present as MG micro-calcifications. Furthermore, majority of the commonest MG+/US- abnormal finding of micro-calcification is usually benign. Biopsy of benign breast disease increases not only the risk of breast cancer, but the expenses of screening and healthcare. Our hypothesis proposes that mammography-positive ultrasound-negative (MG+/US-) asymptomatic micro-calcifications might not need immediate invasive procedures and be safe to observe until the micro-calcifications increase significantly or become US-positive. If this hypothesis is proved, US would serve as the primary imaging test for breast cancer screening in China, with MG as the selective screening test and diagnostic tool for surgical plan. Unnecessary biopsy or surgery might be avoided with screening expenses considerably decrease.
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- Ying Xu
- Department of Breast Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, PR China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, PR China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, PR China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, PR China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730 PR China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730 PR China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, PR China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, PR China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, PR China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, PR China.
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Lee JM, Abraham L, Lam DL, Buist DS, Kerlikowske K, Miglioretti DL, Houssami N, Lehman CD, Henderson LM, Hubbard RA. Cumulative Risk Distribution for Interval Invasive Second Breast Cancers After Negative Surveillance Mammography. J Clin Oncol 2018; 36:2070-2077. [PMID: 29718790 PMCID: PMC6036621 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.76.8267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Purpose The aim of the current study was to characterize the risk of interval invasive second breast cancers within 5 years of primary breast cancer treatment. Methods We examined 65,084 surveillance mammograms from 18,366 women with a primary breast cancer diagnosis of unilateral ductal carcinoma in situ or stage I to III invasive breast carcinoma performed from 1996 to 2012 in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium. Interval invasive breast cancer was defined as ipsilateral or contralateral cancer diagnosed within 1 year after a negative surveillance mammogram. Discrete-time survival models-adjusted for all covariates-were used to estimate the probability of interval invasive cancer, given the risk factors for each surveillance round, and aggregated across rounds to estimate the 5-year cumulative probability of interval invasive cancer. Results We observed 474 surveillance-detected cancers-334 invasive and 140 ductal carcinoma in situ-and 186 interval invasive cancers which yielded a cancer detection rate of 7.3 per 1,000 examinations (95% CI, 6.6 to 8.0) and an interval invasive cancer rate of 2.9 per 1,000 examinations (95% CI, 2.5 to 3.3). Median cumulative 5-year interval cancer risk was 1.4% (interquartile range, 0.8% to 2.3%; 10th to 90th percentile range, 0.5% to 3.7%), and 15% of women had ≥ 3% 5-year interval invasive cancer risk. Cumulative 5-year interval cancer risk was highest for women with estrogen receptor- and progesterone receptor-negative primary breast cancer (2.6%; 95% CI, 1.7% to 3.5%), interval cancer presentation at primary diagnosis (2.2%; 95% CI, 1.5% to 2.9%), and breast conservation without radiation (1.8%; 95% CI, 1.1% to 2.4%). Conclusion Risk of interval invasive second breast cancer varies across women and is influenced by characteristics that can be measured at initial diagnosis, treatment, and imaging. Risk prediction models that evaluate the risk of cancers not detected by surveillance mammography should be developed to inform discussions of tailored surveillance.
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- Janie M. Lee
- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Janie M. Lee and Diana L. Lam, University of Washington, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Linn Abraham, Diana S.M. Buist, and Diana L. Miglioretti, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; Karla Kerlikowske, Department of Veterans Affairs, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Diana L. Miglioretti, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Nehmat Houssami, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Constance D. Lehman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Louise M. Henderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Puvanesarajah S, Nyante SJ, Kuzmiak CM, Chen M, Tse CK, Sun X, Allott EH, Kirk EL, Carey LA, Perou CM, Olshan AF, Henderson LM, Troester MA. PAM50 and Risk of Recurrence Scores for Interval Breast Cancers. Cancer Prev Res (Phila) 2018; 11:327-336. [PMID: 29622545 PMCID: PMC5984721 DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.capr-17-0368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Revised: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 03/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Breast cancers detected after a negative breast screening examination and prior to the next screening are referred to as interval cancers. These cancers generally have poor clinical characteristics compared with screen-detected cancers, but associations between interval cancer and genomic cancer characteristics are not well understood. Mammographically screened women diagnosed with primary invasive breast cancer from 1993 to 2013 (n = 370) were identified by linking the Carolina Breast Cancer Study and the Carolina Mammography Registry. Among women with a registry-identified screening mammogram 0 to 24 months before diagnosis, cancers were classified as screen-detected (N = 165) or interval-detected (N = 205). Using logistic regression, we examined the association of mode of detection with cancer characteristics (clinical, IHC, and genomic), overall, and in analyses stratified on mammographic density and race. Interval cancer was associated with large tumors [>2 cm; OR, 2.3; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.5-3.7], positive nodal status (OR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.1-2.8), and triple-negative subtype (OR, 2.5; 95% CI, 1.1-5.5). Interval cancers were more likely to have non-Luminal A subtype (OR, 2.9; 95% CI, 1.5-5.7), whereas screen-detected cancers tended to be more indolent (96% had low risk of recurrence genomic scores; 71% were PAM50 Luminal A). When stratifying by mammographic density and race, associations between interval detection and poor prognostic features were similar by race and density status. Strong associations between interval cancers and poor-prognosis genomic features (non-Luminal A subtype and high risk of recurrence score) suggest that aggressive tumor biology is an important contributor to interval cancer rates. Cancer Prev Res; 11(6); 327-36. ©2018 AACR.
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Predictors of surveillance mammography outcomes in women with a personal history of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2018; 171:209-215. [PMID: 29748762 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-018-4808-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2018] [Accepted: 04/30/2018] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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PURPOSE To identify predictors of poor mammography surveillance outcomes based on clinico-pathologic features. METHODS This study was HIPAA compliant and IRB approved. We performed an electronic medical record review for a cohort of women with American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Stage I or II invasive breast cancer treated with breast conservation therapy who developed subsequent in-breast treatment recurrence (IBTR) or contralateral breast cancer (CBC). Poor surveillance outcome was defined as second breast cancer not detected by surveillance mammography, including interval cancers (diagnosed within 365 days of surveillance mammogram with negative results) and clinically detected cancers (diagnosed without a surveillance mammogram in the preceding 365 days). Univariate and multivariate logistic regression were performed to identify predictors of poor mammography surveillance outcome, including patient and primary tumor characteristics, breast density, mode of primary tumor detection, and time to second cancer diagnosis. RESULTS 164 women met inclusion criteria (65 with IBTR, 99 with CBC); 124 had screen-detected second cancers. On univariate analysis, poor surveillance outcome (n = 40) was associated with age at primary cancer diagnosis < 50 years (p < 0.0001), AJCC stage II primary cancers (p = 0.007), and heterogeneously or extremely dense breasts (p = 0.04). On multivariate analysis, age < 50 years at primary breast cancer diagnosis remained a significant predictor of poor surveillance outcome (p = 0.001). CONCLUSION Women younger than age 50 at primary breast cancer diagnosis are at risk of poor surveillance mammography outcomes, and may be appropriate candidates for more intensive clinical and imaging surveillance.
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Ekpo EU, Alakhras M, Brennan P. Errors in Mammography Cannot be Solved Through Technology Alone. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2018; 19:291-301. [PMID: 29479948 PMCID: PMC5980911 DOI: 10.22034/apjcp.2018.19.2.291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Mammography has been the frontline screening tool for breast cancer for decades. However, high error rates in the form of false negatives (FNs) and false positives (FPs) have persisted despite technological improvements. Radiologists still miss between 10% and 30% of cancers while 80% of woman recalled for additional views have normal outcomes, with 40% of biopsied lesions being benign. Research show that the majority of cancers missed is actually visible and looked at, but either go unnoticed or are deemed to be benign. Causal agents for these errors include human related characteristics resulting in contributory search, perception and decision-making behaviours. Technical, patient and lesion factors are also important relating to positioning, compression, patient size, breast density and presence of breast implants as well as the nature and subtype of the cancer itself, where features such as architectural distortion and triple-negative cancers remain challenging to detect on screening. A better understanding of these causal agents as well as the adoption of technological and educational interventions, which audits reader performance and provide immediate perceptual feedback, should help. This paper reviews the current status of our knowledge around error rates in mammography and explores the factors impacting it. It also presents potential solutions for maximizing diagnostic efficacy thus benefiting the millions of women who undergo this procedure each year.
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- Ernest Usang Ekpo
- Discipline of Medical Radiation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
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Autier P, Boniol M. Mammography screening: A major issue in medicine. Eur J Cancer 2017; 90:34-62. [PMID: 29272783 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2017.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Accepted: 11/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Breast cancer mortality is declining in most high-income countries. The role of mammography screening in these declines is much debated. Screening impacts cancer mortality through decreasing the incidence of number of advanced cancers with poor prognosis, while therapies and patient management impact cancer mortality through decreasing the fatality of cancers. The effectiveness of cancer screening is the ability of a screening method to curb the incidence of advanced cancers in populations. Methods for evaluating cancer screening effectiveness are based on the monitoring of age-adjusted incidence rates of advanced cancers that should decrease after the introduction of screening. Likewise, cancer-specific mortality rates should decline more rapidly in areas with screening than in areas without or with lower levels of screening but where patient management is similar. These two criteria have provided evidence that screening for colorectal and cervical cancer contributes to decreasing the mortality associated with these two cancers. In contrast, screening for neuroblastoma in children was discontinued in the early 2000s because these two criteria were not met. In addition, overdiagnosis - i.e. the detection of non-progressing occult neuroblastoma that would not have been life-threatening during the subject's lifetime - is a major undesirable consequence of screening. Accumulating epidemiological data show that in populations where mammography screening has been widespread for a long time, there has been no or only a modest decline in the incidence of advanced cancers, including that of de novo metastatic (stage IV) cancers at diagnosis. Moreover, breast cancer mortality reductions are similar in areas with early introduction and high penetration of screening and in areas with late introduction and low penetration of screening. Overdiagnosis is commonplace, representing 20% or more of all breast cancers among women invited to screening and 30-50% of screen-detected cancers. Overdiagnosis leads to overtreatment and inflicts considerable physical, psychological and economic harm on many women. Overdiagnosis has also exerted considerable disruptive effects on the interpretation of clinical outcomes expressed in percentages (instead of rates) or as overall survival (instead of mortality rates or stage-specific survival). Rates of radical mastectomies have not decreased following the introduction of screening and keep rising in some countries (e.g. the United States of America (USA)). Hence, the epidemiological picture of mammography screening closely resembles that of screening for neuroblastoma. Reappraisals of Swedish mammography trials demonstrate that the design and statistical analysis of these trials were different from those of all trials on screening for cancers other than breast cancer. We found compelling indications that these trials overestimated reductions in breast cancer mortality associated with screening, in part because of the statistical analyses themselves, in part because of improved therapies and underreporting of breast cancer as the underlying cause of death in screening groups. In this regard, Swedish trials should publish the stage-specific breast cancer mortality rates for the screening and control groups separately. Results of the Greater New York Health Insurance Plan trial are biased because of the underreporting of breast cancer cases and deaths that occurred in women who did not participate in screening. After 17 years of follow-up, the United Kingdom (UK) Age Trial showed no benefit from mammography screening starting at age 39-41. Until around 2005, most proponents of breast screening backed the monitoring of changes in advanced cancer incidence and comparative studies on breast cancer mortality for the evaluation of breast screening effectiveness. However, in an attempt to mitigate the contradictions between results of mammography trials and population data, breast-screening proponents have elected to change the criteria for the evaluation of cancer screening effectiveness, giving precedence to incidence-based mortality (IBM) and case-control studies. But practically all IBM studies on mammography screening have a strong ecological component in their design. The two IBM studies done in Norway that meet all methodological requirements do not document significant reductions in breast cancer mortality associated with mammography screening. Because of their propensity to exaggerate the health benefits of screening, case-control studies may demonstrate that mammography screening could reduce the risk of death from diseases other than breast cancer. Numerous statistical model approaches have been conducted for estimating the contributions of screening and of patient management to reductions in breast cancer mortality. Unverified assumptions are needed for running these models. For instance, many models assume that if screening had not occurred, the majority of screen-detected asymptomatic cancers would have progressed to symptomatic advanced cancers. This assumption is not grounded in evidence because a large proportion of screen-detected breast cancers represent overdiagnosis and hence non-progressing tumours. The accumulation of population data in well-screened populations diminishes the relevance of model approaches. The comparison of the performance of different screening modalities - e.g. mammography, digital mammography, ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), three-dimensional tomosynthesis (TDT) - concentrates on detection rates, which is the ability of a technique to detect more cancers than other techniques. However, a greater detection rate tells little about the capacity to prevent interval and advanced cancers and could just reflect additional overdiagnosis. Studies based on the incidence of advanced cancers and on the evaluation of overdiagnosis should be conducted before marketing new breast-imaging technologies. Women at high risk of breast cancer (i.e. 30% lifetime risk and more), such as women with BRCA1/2 mutations, require a close breast surveillance. MRI is the preferred imaging method until more radical risk-reduction options are eventually adopted. For women with an intermediate risk of breast cancer (i.e. 10-29% lifetime risk), including women with extremely dense breast at mammography, there is no evidence that more frequent mammography screening or screening with other modalities actually reduces the risk of breast cancer death. A plethora of epidemiological data shows that, since 1985, progress in the management of breast cancer patients has led to marked reductions in stage-specific breast cancer mortality, even for patients with disseminated disease (i.e. stage IV cancer) at diagnosis. In contrast, the epidemiological data point to a marginal contribution of mammography screening in the decline in breast cancer mortality. Moreover, the more effective the treatments, the less favourable are the harm-benefit balance of screening mammography. New, effective methods for breast screening are needed, as well as research on risk-based screening strategies.
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- Philippe Autier
- University of Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health at IPRI, International Prevention Research Institute, Espace Européen, Building G, Allée Claude Debussy, 69130 Ecully Lyon, France; International Prevention Research Institute (iPRI), 95 Cours Lafayette, 69006 Lyon, France.
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- University of Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health at IPRI, International Prevention Research Institute, Espace Européen, Building G, Allée Claude Debussy, 69130 Ecully Lyon, France; International Prevention Research Institute (iPRI), 95 Cours Lafayette, 69006 Lyon, France
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Schlienger S, Campbell S, Pasquin S, Gaboury L, Claing A. ADP-ribosylation factor 1 expression regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition and predicts poor clinical outcome in triple-negative breast cancer. Oncotarget 2017; 7:15811-27. [PMID: 26908458 PMCID: PMC4941279 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.7515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Accepted: 02/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Metastatic capacities are fundamental features of tumor malignancy. ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) 1 has emerged as a key regulator of invasion in breast cancer cells. However, the importance of this GTPase, in vivo, remains to be demonstrated. We report that ARF1 is highly expressed in breast tumors of the most aggressive and advanced subtypes. Furthermore, we show that lowered expression of ARF1 impairs growth of primary tumors and inhibits lung metastasis in a murine xenograft model. To understand how ARF1 contributes to invasiveness, we used a poorly invasive breast cancer cell line, MCF7 (ER+), and examined the effects of overexpressing ARF1 to levels similar to that found in invasive cell lines. We demonstrate that ARF1 overexpression leads to the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Mechanistically, ARF1 controls cell–cell adhesion through ß-catenin and E-cadherin, oncogenic Ras activation and expression of EMT inducers. We further show that ARF1 overexpression enhances invasion, proliferation and resistance to a chemotherapeutic agent. In vivo, ARF1 overexpressing MCF7 cells are able to form more metastases to the lung. Overall, our findings demonstrate that ARF1 is a molecular switch for cancer progression and thus suggest that limiting the expression/activation of this GTPase could help improve outcome for breast cancer patients.
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- Sabrina Schlienger
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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Yousef EM, Furrer D, Laperriere DL, Tahir MR, Mader S, Diorio C, Gaboury LA. MCM2: An alternative to Ki-67 for measuring breast cancer cell proliferation. Mod Pathol 2017; 30:682-697. [PMID: 28084344 DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2016.231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2016] [Revised: 11/28/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease comprising a diversity of tumor subtypes that manifest themselves in a wide variety of clinical, pathological, and molecular features. One important subset, luminal breast cancers, comprises two clinically distinct subtypes luminal A and B each of them endowed with its own genetic program of differentiation and proliferation. Luminal breast cancers were operationally defined as follows: Luminal A: ER+, PR+, HER2-, Ki-67<14% and Luminal B: ER+ and/or PR+, HER2-,Ki-67≥14% or, alternatively ER+ and/or PR+, HER2+, any Ki-67. There is currently a need for a clinically robust and validated immunohistochemical assay that can help distinguish between luminal A and B breast cancer. MCM2 is a family member of the minichromosome maintenance protein complex whose role in DNA replication and cell proliferation is firmly established. As MCM2 appears to be an attractive alternative to Ki-67, we sought to study the expression of MCM2 and Ki-67 in different histological grades and molecular subtypes of breast cancer focusing primarily on ER-positive tumors. MCM2 and Ki-67 mRNA expression were studied using in silico analysis of available DNA microarray and RNA-sequencing data of human breast cancer. We next used immunohistochemistry to evaluate protein expression of MCM2 and Ki-67 on tissue microarrays of invasive breast carcinoma. We found that MCM2 and Ki-67 are highly expressed in breast tumors of high histological grades, comprising clinically aggressive tumors such as triple-negative, HER2-positive and luminal B subtypes. MCM2 expression was detected at higher levels than that of Ki-67 in normal breast tissues and in breast cancers. The bimodal distribution of MCM2 scores in ER+/HER2- breast tumors led to the identification of two distinct subgroups with different relapse-free survival rates. In conclusion, MCM2 expression can help sorting out two clinically important subsets of luminal breast cancer whose treatment and clinical outcomes are likely to diverge.
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- Einas M Yousef
- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.,Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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- Cancer Research Centre at Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada.,Oncology Axis, CHU of Quebec Research Center, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Quebec City, QC, Canada.,Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- The University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.,Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Cancer Research Centre at Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada.,Oncology Axis, CHU of Quebec Research Center, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Quebec City, QC, Canada.,Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada.,Deschênes-Fabia Center for Breast Diseases, Hôpital du St-Sacrement, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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The epidemiology, radiology and biological characteristics of interval breast cancers in population mammography screening. NPJ Breast Cancer 2017. [PMID: 28649652 PMCID: PMC5460204 DOI: 10.1038/s41523-017-0014-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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An interval breast cancer is a cancer that emerges following a negative mammographic screen. This overview describes the epidemiology, and the radiological and biological characteristics of interval breast cancers in population mammography screening. Notwithstanding possible differences in ascertainment of interval breast cancers, there was broad variability in reported interval breast cancer rates (range 7.0 to 49.3 per 10,000 screens) reflecting heterogeneity in underlying breast cancer rates, screening rounds (initial or repeat screens), and the length and phase of the inter-screening interval. The majority of studies (based on biennial screening) reported interval breast cancer rates in the range of 8.4 to 21.1 per 10,000 screens spanning the two-year interval with the larger proportion occurring in the second year. Despite methodological limitations inherent in radiological surveillance (retrospective mammographic review) of interval breast cancers, this form of surveillance consistently reveals that the majority of interval cancers represent either true interval or occult cancers that were not visible on the index mammographic screen; approximately 20–25% of interval breast cancers are classified as having been missed (false-negatives). The biological characteristics of interval breast cancers show that they have relatively worse tumour prognostic characteristics and biomarker profile, and also survival outcomes, than screen-detected breast cancers; however, they have similar characteristics and prognosis as breast cancers occurring in non-screened women. There was limited evidence on the effect on interval breast cancer frequency and outcomes following transition from film to digital mammography screening.
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OBJECTIVE Current clinical guidelines are consistent in supporting annual mammography for women after treatment of primary breast cancer. Surveillance imaging beyond standard digital mammography, including digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), breast ultrasound, and MRI, may improve outcomes. This article reviews the evidence on the performance and effectiveness of breast imaging modalities available for surveillance after treatment of sporadic unilateral primary breast cancer and identifies additional factors to be considered when selecting an imaging surveillance regimen. CONCLUSION Evidence review supports the use of mammography for surveillance after primary breast cancer treatment. Variability exists in guideline recommendations for surveillance initiation, interval, and cessation. DBT offers the most promise as a potential modality to replace standard digital mammography as a front-line surveillance test; a single published study to date has shown a significant decrease in recall rates compared with standard digital mammography alone. Most guidelines do not support the use of whole-breast ultrasound in breast cancer surveillance, and further studies are needed to define the characteristics of women who may benefit from MRI surveillance. The emerging evidence about surveillance imaging outcomes suggests that additional factors, including patient and imaging characteristics, tumor biology and gene expression profile, and choice of treatment, warrant consideration in selecting personalized posttreatment imaging surveillance regimens.
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- Diana L Lam
- 1 Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, 825 Eastlake Ave East, G2-600, Seattle, WA 98109-1023
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- 2 Screening and Test Evaluation Program, Sydney School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- 1 Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, 825 Eastlake Ave East, G2-600, Seattle, WA 98109-1023
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Breast cancer biology varies by method of detection and may contribute to overdiagnosis. Surgery 2016; 160:454-62. [DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2016.03.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2015] [Revised: 03/04/2016] [Accepted: 03/31/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Holm J, Humphreys K, Li J, Ploner A, Cheddad A, Eriksson M, Törnberg S, Hall P, Czene K. Risk factors and tumor characteristics of interval cancers by mammographic density. J Clin Oncol 2015; 33:1030-7. [PMID: 25646195 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2014.58.9986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To compare tumor characteristics and risk factors of interval breast cancers and screen-detected breast cancers, taking mammographic density into account. PATIENTS AND METHODS Women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer from 2001 to 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, with data on tumor characteristics (n = 4,091), risk factors, and mammographic density (n = 1,957) were included. Logistic regression was used to compare interval breast cancers with screen-detected breast cancers, overall and by highest and lowest quartiles of percent mammographic density. RESULTS Compared with screen-detected breast cancers, interval breast cancers in nondense breasts (≤ 20% mammographic density) were significantly more likely to exhibit lymph node involvement (odds ratio [OR], 3.55; 95% CI, 1.74 to 7.13) and to be estrogen receptor negative (OR, 4.05; 95% CI, 2.24 to 7.25), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 positive (OR, 5.17; 95% CI, 1.64 to 17.01), progesterone receptor negative (OR, 2.63; 95% CI, 1.58 to 4.38), and triple negative (OR, 5.33; 95% CI, 1.21 to 22.46). In contrast, interval breast cancers in dense breasts (> 40.9% mammographic density) were less aggressive than interval breast cancers in nondense breasts (overall difference, P = .008) and were phenotypically more similar to screen-detected breast cancers. Risk factors differentially associated with interval breast cancer relative to screen-detected breast cancer after adjusting for age and mammographic density were family history of breast cancer (OR, 1.32; 95% CI, 1.02 to 1.70), current use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT; OR, 1.84; 95% CI, 1.38 to 2.44), and body mass index more than 25 kg/m(2) (OR, 0.49; 95% CI, 0.29 to 0.82). CONCLUSION Interval breast cancers in women with low mammographic density have the most aggressive phenotype. The effect of HRT on interval breast cancer risk is not fully explained by mammographic density. Family history is associated with interval breast cancers, possibly indicating disparate genetic background of screen-detected breast cancers and interval breast cancers.
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- Johanna Holm
- Johanna Holm, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Alexander Ploner, Abbas Cheddad, Mikael Eriksson, Per Hall, and Kamila Czene, Karolinska Institutet; Sven Törnberg, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; and Jingmei Li, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
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- Johanna Holm, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Alexander Ploner, Abbas Cheddad, Mikael Eriksson, Per Hall, and Kamila Czene, Karolinska Institutet; Sven Törnberg, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; and Jingmei Li, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Johanna Holm, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Alexander Ploner, Abbas Cheddad, Mikael Eriksson, Per Hall, and Kamila Czene, Karolinska Institutet; Sven Törnberg, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; and Jingmei Li, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Johanna Holm, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Alexander Ploner, Abbas Cheddad, Mikael Eriksson, Per Hall, and Kamila Czene, Karolinska Institutet; Sven Törnberg, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; and Jingmei Li, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Johanna Holm, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Alexander Ploner, Abbas Cheddad, Mikael Eriksson, Per Hall, and Kamila Czene, Karolinska Institutet; Sven Törnberg, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; and Jingmei Li, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Johanna Holm, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Alexander Ploner, Abbas Cheddad, Mikael Eriksson, Per Hall, and Kamila Czene, Karolinska Institutet; Sven Törnberg, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; and Jingmei Li, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Johanna Holm, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Alexander Ploner, Abbas Cheddad, Mikael Eriksson, Per Hall, and Kamila Czene, Karolinska Institutet; Sven Törnberg, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; and Jingmei Li, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Johanna Holm, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Alexander Ploner, Abbas Cheddad, Mikael Eriksson, Per Hall, and Kamila Czene, Karolinska Institutet; Sven Törnberg, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; and Jingmei Li, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Johanna Holm, Keith Humphreys, Jingmei Li, Alexander Ploner, Abbas Cheddad, Mikael Eriksson, Per Hall, and Kamila Czene, Karolinska Institutet; Sven Törnberg, Stockholm-Gotland Regional Cancer Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; and Jingmei Li, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Yousef EM, Tahir MR, St-Pierre Y, Gaboury LA. MMP-9 expression varies according to molecular subtypes of breast cancer. BMC Cancer 2014; 14:609. [PMID: 25151367 PMCID: PMC4150970 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2014] [Accepted: 08/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Background In 2014, breast cancer remains a major cause of mortality worldwide mostly due to tumor relapse and metastasis. There is currently a great interest in identifying cancer biomarkers and signalling pathways mechanistically related to breast cancer progression. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is a member of matrix degrading enzymes involved in cancer development, invasion and metastasis. Our objective was to investigate MMP-9 expression in normal human breast tissue and to compare it to that of breast cancer of various histological grades and molecular subtypes. We also sought to correlate MMP-9 expression with the incidence of metastasis, survival rates and relapse in breast cancer patients. Methods MMP-9 was first studied using in silico analysis on available DNA microarray and RNA sequencing data of human breast cancer tissues and human breast cancer cell lines. We next ascertained MMP-9 expression in both normal breast tissue and in human breast carcinoma tissue microarrays. Results Significant increase in MMP-9 expression was found in breast cancer cells where compared to normal breast tissue. A positive correlation could also be established between elevated levels of MMP-9 and breast cancer of high histological grade. Furthermore, our results indicate that not only MMP-9 is differentially expressed between each molecular subset but also, more importantly MMP-9 overexpression revealed itself as a startling feature of triple-negative and HER2-positive breast cancers. Lastly, the clinical relevance of MMP-9 overexpression is strongly supported by its significant association with a higher incidence of metastasis and relapse. Conclusions Differential expression of MMP-9 reflects the extent of cellular differentiation in breast cancer cells and is closely related to the most aggressive subtypes of breast cancer. Hence, MMP-9 is a promising prognostic biomarker of high-grade breast cancer. In our opinion, MMP-9 expression could help segregate subsets of aggressive breast cancer into clinically meaningful subtypes. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2407-14-609) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
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Ohta K, Kasahara Y, Tanaka F, Maeda H. Is clinical breast examination effective in Japan? Consideration from the age-specific performance of breast cancer screening combining mammography with clinical breast examination. Breast Cancer 2014; 23:183-9. [PMID: 24925524 DOI: 10.1007/s12282-014-0544-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2014] [Accepted: 05/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND There is controversy about the value of clinical breast examination (CBE) in breast cancer screening programs that include mammography. METHODS In Fukui Prefecture, a screening combining mammography with CBE was employed on 62,447 women from 2004 to 2009. We examined the sensitivity and specificity of mammography alone, and mammography and CBE together for each age group (40-49, 50-59, 60-69, and 70-79). RESULTS 167 breast cancers and 49 false-negative cancers were detected during 5 years. For the combined screening, the sensitivities were 73.1, 74.1, 78.3, and 86.5 %, and the specificities were 83.8, 87.5, 89.8, and 90.9 % in the groups of 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, and 70-79 years, respectively. In the mammography-specific analysis, sensitivity decreased to 69.8 % (-3.3 %), 66.7 % (-7.7 %), 77.3 % (-1.0 %), and 83.8 % (-2.7 %) in the groups of 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, and 70-79 years, respectively. There were greater reductions in the groups of 40-49 and 50-59 years than in those of 60-69 and 70-79 years, but there was no statistically significant decrease. Specificity generally increased with increasing age and there was a significant improvement in specificity among all age groups, except that of 70-79 years. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that there is a trade-off between sensitivity and specificity associated with CBE added to mammography. This tendency is greater in those 40-50 years of age than in those 60-70 years of age. We consider that CBE may be omitted from breast cancer screening among women aged 60 and 70 years. Furthermore, another modality to complement mammography screening in younger Japanese women is expected.
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- Kouji Ohta
- Department of Surgery, Fukui Prefectural Hospital, Yotsui 2-8-1, Fukui, 910-8526, Japan.
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- Department of Surgery, Fukui Saiseikai Hospital, Fukui, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Fukui Red Cross Hospital, Fukui, Japan
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- Department of Surgery 1, Fukui University Graduate School of Medicine, Fukui, Japan
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Turner N, Biganzoli L, Malorni L, Migliaccio I, Moretti E, Pestrin M, Sanna G, Siclari O, Di Leo A. The continued evidence from overviews: what is the clinical utility? Breast 2014; 22 Suppl 2:S8-11. [PMID: 24074798 DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2013.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The Oxford Overview process has provided us with extremely high-powered meta-analyses assessing the role of adjuvant chemotherapy in early breast cancer. From the most recent publication, the proportional benefits from chemotherapy are relatively equivalent across all patient subgroups, a finding contradictory to our growing understanding of the role of tumour biology in dictating chemosensitivity. Several factors, including heterogeneity of patient groups and chemotherapy regimens, lack of data on underlying tumour biological subtypes, and confounding effect of chemotherapy-induced ovarian suppression in premenopausal women with hormone receptor positive breast cancer, impact on the applicability and clinical utility of the Overview in current and future oncological practice. With these considerations, the Overview has become less clinically relevant as a tool for guiding adjuvant chemotherapy treatment decisions, and a new direction is required.
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- Natalie Turner
- 'Sandro Pitigliani' Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Oncology, Hospital of Prato, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Prato, Italy
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José Bento M, Gonçalves G, Aguiar A, Antunes L, Veloso V, Rodrigues V. Clinicopathological differences between interval and screen-detected breast cancers diagnosed within a screening programme in Northern Portugal. J Med Screen 2014; 21:104-9. [DOI: 10.1177/0969141314534406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Objective To evaluate clinicopathological differences between screen-detected (SD) and interval (IC) breast cancers diagnosed in women enrolled in an organized breast screening programme in 2000--2007. Setting Breast Cancer Screening Programme of the north region of Portugal. Methods Using data from the screening programme and from the population-based North Region Cancer Registry, SD and IC were identified. Information on screening history, age, date of diagnosis, tumour size, histological type and grade, lymph node status, tumour stage, biomarkers, and treatment was obtained from the cancer registry and from clinical and pathological reports. Association between mode of detection and these clinicopathological characteristics was estimated by unconditional logistic regression. Results A total of 442 SD and 112 IC were identified in women aged 50--69. Compared with SD, IC were diagnosed in younger women (60.0 ± 5.8 years and 58.4 ± 6.0 years, respectively), were larger (tumour size >20 mm: 60.2% versus 25.1%), lobular (6.3% versus 16.1%), with a higher differentiation grade (grade 3: 17.7% versus 38.9%), had more lymph node metastases, more advanced stage, and oestrogen receptor (ER) negative (12.9% versus 29.0%) and progesterone negative, and HER2 positive. After multivariable analysis, compared with SD, IC were more likely to be larger than 20 mm, lobular, of grade 3 and negative for ER. Conclusion Our results are consistent with other studies. IC’s have a more aggressive biology than SDs. Our findings did not show any unexpected pattern requiring changes to our screening procedures, but continuous identification and characterization of IC is advisable.
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- Maria José Bento
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, and Epidemiology Unit, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Portugal
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- Portuguese Cancer League – North Branch, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Portugal
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- Portuguese Cancer League – North Branch, Porto, Portugal
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, and Portuguese Cancer League – Centre Branch, Coimbra, Portugal
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Domingo L, Salas D, Zubizarreta R, Baré M, Sarriugarte G, Barata T, Ibáñez J, Blanch J, Puig-Vives M, Fernández AB, Castells X, Sala M. Tumor phenotype and breast density in distinct categories of interval cancer: results of population-based mammography screening in Spain. Breast Cancer Res 2014; 16:R3. [PMID: 24410848 PMCID: PMC3979164 DOI: 10.1186/bcr3595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2013] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Interval cancers are tumors arising after a negative screening episode and before the next screening invitation. They can be classified into true interval cancers, false-negatives, minimal-sign cancers, and occult tumors based on mammographic findings in screening and diagnostic mammograms. This study aimed to describe tumor-related characteristics and the association of breast density and tumor phenotype within four interval cancer categories. METHODS We included 2,245 invasive tumors (1,297 screening-detected and 948 interval cancers) diagnosed from 2000 to 2009 among 645,764 women aged 45 to 69 who underwent biennial screening in Spain. Interval cancers were classified by a semi-informed retrospective review into true interval cancers (n = 455), false-negatives (n = 224), minimal-sign (n = 166), and occult tumors (n = 103). Breast density was evaluated using Boyd's scale and was conflated into: <25%; 25 to 50%; 50 to 75%; >75%. Tumor-related information was obtained from cancer registries and clinical records. Tumor phenotype was defined as follows: luminal A: ER+/HER2- or PR+/HER2-; luminal B: ER+/HER2+ or PR+/HER2+; HER2: ER-/PR-/HER2+; triple-negative: ER-/PR-/HER2-. The association of tumor phenotype and breast density was assessed using a multinomial logistic regression model. Adjusted odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated. All statistical tests were two-sided. RESULTS Forty-eight percent of interval cancers were true interval cancers and 23.6% false-negatives. True interval cancers were associated with HER2 and triple-negative phenotypes (OR = 1.91 (95% CI:1.22-2.96), OR = 2.07 (95% CI:1.42-3.01), respectively) and extremely dense breasts (>75%) (OR = 1.67 (95% CI:1.08-2.56)). However, among true interval cancers a higher proportion of triple-negative tumors was observed in predominantly fatty breasts (<25%) than in denser breasts (28.7%, 21.4%, 11.3% and 14.3%, respectively; <0.001). False-negatives and occult tumors had similar phenotypic characteristics to screening-detected cancers, extreme breast density being strongly associated with occult tumors (OR = 6.23 (95% CI:2.65-14.66)). Minimal-sign cancers were biologically close to true interval cancers but showed no association with breast density. CONCLUSIONS Our findings revealed that both the distribution of tumor phenotype and breast density play specific and independent roles in each category of interval cancer. Further research is needed to understand the biological basis of the overrepresentation of triple-negative phenotype among predominantly fatty breasts in true interval cancers.
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- Laia Domingo
- Department of Epidemiology and Evaluation, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
- Research network on health services in chronic diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain
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- General Directorate Public Health, Valencia, Spain
- Centre for Public Health Research (CSISP), FISABIO, Valencia, Spain
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- Galician Breast Cancer Screening Program, Directorate for innovation and management of public health, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Research network on health services in chronic diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain
- Epidemiology and Assessment Unit UDIAT-Diagnostic Centre, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain
- Department of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain
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- Osakidetza Breast Cancer Screening Programme, Basque Country Health Service, Bilbao, Spain
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- General Directorate of Health Care Programmes, Canary Islands Health Service, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- General Directorate Public Health, Valencia, Spain
- Centre for Public Health Research (CSISP), FISABIO, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology and Evaluation, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
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- Galician Breast Cancer Screening Program, Directorate for innovation and management of public health, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology and Evaluation, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
- Research network on health services in chronic diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology and Evaluation, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
- Research network on health services in chronic diseases (REDISSEC), Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain
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Engstrøm MJ, Opdahl S, Hagen AI, Romundstad PR, Akslen LA, Haugen OA, Vatten LJ, Bofin AM. Molecular subtypes, histopathological grade and survival in a historic cohort of breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2013; 140:463-73. [PMID: 23901018 PMCID: PMC3742963 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-013-2647-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2013] [Accepted: 07/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Molecular subtyping of breast cancer may provide additional prognostic information regarding patient outcome. However, its clinical significance remains to be established. In this study, the main aims were to discover whether reclassification of breast cancer into molecular subtypes provides more precise information regarding outcome compared to conventional histopathological grading and to study breast cancer-specific survival in the different molecular subtypes. Cases of breast cancer occurring in a cohort of women born between 1886 and 1928 with long-term follow-up were included in the study. Tissue microarrays were constructed from archival formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue from 909 cases. Using immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridisation as surrogates for gene expression analyses, all cases were reclassified into the following molecular subtypes: Luminal A; Luminal B (HER2−); Luminal B (HER2+); HER2 subtype; Basal phenotype; and five negative phenotype. Kaplan–Meier survival curves and Cox proportional hazards models were used in the analyses. During the first 5 years after diagnosis, there were significant differences in prognosis according to molecular subtypes with the best survival for the Luminal A subtype and the worst for HER2 and five negative phenotype. In this historic cohort of women with breast cancer, differences in breast cancer-specific survival according to subtype occur almost exclusively amongst the histopathological grade 2 tumours. From 5 years after time of diagnosis until the end of follow-up, there appears to be no difference in survival according to molecular subtype or histopathological grade.
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- M J Engstrøm
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
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Marmot MG, Altman DG, Cameron DA, Dewar JA, Thompson SG, Wilcox M. The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review. Br J Cancer 2013; 108:2205-40. [PMID: 23744281 PMCID: PMC3693450 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 602] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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- M G Marmot
- UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Institute of Health Equity, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB,
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