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ArticleBreast cancer research and treatment2021

Comparison of the performance of four staging systems in determining the prognosis of breast cancer among women undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Isabella Cristina Santos Soares, Marcelo Adeodato Bello, Anke Bergmann, Luiz Claudio Santos Thuler

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Isabella Cristina Santos SoaresResearch Center, Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Marcelo Adeodato BelloCancer Hospital III, Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Anke BergmannResearch Center, Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Luiz Claudio Santos ThulerResearch Center, Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. lthuler@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2550-6537
Instituto Nacional de Câncer - INCA · BRHospital do Câncer III · BR

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purposeDifferent tumor-related factors have been proposed to assess the risk of disease progression and death in women undergoing neoadjuvant breast cancer chemotherapy. Recently, besides the classical pre-treatment clinical stage (CS) and post-treatment pathologic stage (PS), estrogen receptor status and histologic grade (CPS + EG score) and HER2 results (Neo-Bioscore) have also been added to this suite of staging systems, generating new scores. The present study aims to compare the performance of these four staging systems, namely CS, PS, CPS + EG and Neo-Bioscore, in the prognosis of breast cancer in women undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

methodsThis study comprises a retrospective cohort study of female breast cancer patients diagnosed at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute, Brazil from January 2013 to December 2015. A descriptive analysis of patient characteristics was conducted, and Kaplan-Meier curves, a Cox proportional hazard analysis and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves were developed according to the assessed staging system scores.

resultsA total of 803 patients were eligible for this study. Most were under 65 years old (88.0%), presented advanced tumors (clinical stage ≥ IIB 77.1%), with positive estrogen receptor (71.2%) and negative HER2 (75.7%) results. During the follow-up, 172 patients (21.4%) evolved to death. A statistical difference (p < 0.001) was observed between 5 year disease-free survival and 5 year overall survival rates according to the PS, CPS + EG and Neo-Bioscore staging systems.

conclusionThe PS, CPS + EG and Neo-Bioscore staging systems were proven to be equivalent to predict the prognosis of patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

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Breast NeoplasmsNeoadjuvant TherapyAgedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsBrazilChemotherapy, AdjuvantErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesFemaleHumansMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingPrognosisRetrospective StudiesERBB2 protein, humanErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesBreast cancerCPS + EGNeoadjuvant chemotherapyNeo-bioscorePost-treatment pathological stagingPre-treatment clinical stagingPrognosis

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