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Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer

Overview of attention for article published in New England Journal of Medicine, June 2018
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Title
Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by a 21-Gene Expression Assay in Breast Cancer
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New England Journal of Medicine, June 2018
DOI 10.1056/nejmoa1804710
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Joseph A Sparano, Robert J Gray, Della F Makower, Kathleen I Pritchard, Kathy S Albain, Daniel F Hayes, Charles E Geyer, Elizabeth C Dees, Matthew P Goetz, John A Olson, Tracy Lively, Sunil S Badve, Thomas J Saphner, Lynne I Wagner, Timothy J Whelan, Matthew J Ellis, Soonmyung Paik, William C Wood, Peter M Ravdin, Maccon M Keane, Henry L Gomez Moreno, Pavan S Reddy, Timothy F Goggins, Ingrid A Mayer, Adam M Brufsky, Deborah L Toppmeyer, Virginia G Kaklamani, Jeffrey L Berenberg, Jeffrey Abrams, George W Sledge

Abstract

Background The recurrence score based on the 21-gene breast cancer assay predicts chemotherapy benefit if it is high and a low risk of recurrence in the absence of chemotherapy if it is low; however, there is uncertainty about the benefit of chemotherapy for most patients, who have a midrange score. Methods We performed a prospective trial involving 10,273 women with hormone-receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, axillary node-negative breast cancer. Of the 9719 eligible patients with follow-up information, 6711 (69%) had a midrange recurrence score of 11 to 25 and were randomly assigned to receive either chemoendocrine therapy or endocrine therapy alone. The trial was designed to show noninferiority of endocrine therapy alone for invasive disease-free survival (defined as freedom from invasive disease recurrence, second primary cancer, or death). Results Endocrine therapy was noninferior to chemoendocrine therapy in the analysis of invasive disease-free survival (hazard ratio for invasive disease recurrence, second primary cancer, or death [endocrine vs. chemoendocrine therapy], 1.08; 95% confidence interval, 0.94 to 1.24; P=0.26). At 9 years, the two treatment groups had similar rates of invasive disease-free survival (83.3% in the endocrine-therapy group and 84.3% in the chemoendocrine-therapy group), freedom from disease recurrence at a distant site (94.5% and 95.0%) or at a distant or local-regional site (92.2% and 92.9%), and overall survival (93.9% and 93.8%). The chemotherapy benefit for invasive disease-free survival varied with the combination of recurrence score and age (P=0.004), with some benefit of chemotherapy found in women 50 years of age or younger with a recurrence score of 16 to 25. Conclusions Adjuvant endocrine therapy and chemoendocrine therapy had similar efficacy in women with hormone-receptor-positive, HER2-negative, axillary node-negative breast cancer who had a midrange 21-gene recurrence score, although some benefit of chemotherapy was found in some women 50 years of age or younger. (Funded by the National Cancer Institute and others; TAILORx ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00310180 .).

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Unknown 1296 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 206 16%
Other 143 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 113 9%
Student > Bachelor 103 8%
Student > Master 100 8%
Other 248 19%
Unknown 383 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 466 36%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 128 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 62 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 38 3%
Engineering 29 2%
Other 133 10%
Unknown 440 34%
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