Masuda, H and Harano, K and Miura, S and Wang, Y and Hirota, Y and Harada, O and Jolly, MK and Matsunaga, Y and Lim, B and Wood, AL and Parinyanitikul, N and Lee, HJ and Gong, G and George, JT and Levine, H and Lee, J and Wang, X and Lucci, A and Rao, A and Schweitzer, BL and Lawrence, OR and Seitz, RS and Morris, SW and Hout, DR and Nakamura, S and Krishnamurthy, S and Ueno, NT (2022) Changes in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Molecular Subtypes in Patients Without Pathologic Complete Response After Neoadjuvant Systemic Chemotherapy. In: JCO Precision Oncology, 6 .
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Abstract
PURPOSE Lehmann et al have identified four molecular subtypes of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)- basal-like (BL) 1, BL2, mesenchymal (M), and luminal androgen receptor - and an immunomodulatory (IM) gene expression signature modifier. Our group previously showed that the response of TNBC to neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy (NST) differs by molecular subtype, but whether NST affects the subtype was unknown. Here, we tested the hypothesis that in patients without pathologic complete response, TNBC subtypes can change after NST. Moreover, in cases with the changed subtype, we determined whether epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) had occurred. MATERIALS AND METHODS From the Pan-Pacific TNBC Consortium data set containing TNBC patient samples from four countries, we examined 64 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded pairs of matched pre- and post-NST tumor samples. The TNBC subtype was determined using the TNBCtype-IM assay. We analyzed a partial EMT gene expression scoring metric using mRNA data. RESULTS Of the 64 matched pairs, 36 (56) showed a change in the TNBC subtype after NST. The most frequent change was from BL1 to M subtypes (38). No tumors changed from M to BL1. The IM signature was positive in 14 (22) patients before NST and eight (12.5) patients after NST. The EMT score increased after NST in 28 (78) of the 36 patients with the changed subtype (v 39 of the 28 patients without change; P = .002254). CONCLUSION We report, to our knowledge, for the first time that the TNBC molecular subtype and IM signature frequently change after NST. Our results also suggest that EMT is promoted by NST. Our findings may lead to innovative adjuvant therapy strategies in TNBC cases with residual tumor after NST. © 2022 by American Society of Clinical Oncology
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | JCO Precision Oncology |
| Publisher: | Wolters Kluwer Health |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to authors. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2022 07:18 |
| Last Modified: | 18 May 2022 07:18 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/71828 |
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