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Romanidou O, Apostolou P, Kouvelakis K, Tsangaras K, Eliades A, Achilleos A, Loizides C, Lemesios C, Ioannides M, Kypri E, Koumbaris G, Papadopoulou K, Papathanasiou A, Rigakos G, Xanthakis I, Fostira F, Kotoula V, Fountzilas G, Patsalis PC. Molecular profile and clinical features of patients with gliomas using a broad targeted next generation-sequencing panel. Oncol Lett 2022; 25:38. [PMID: 36589665 PMCID: PMC9773316 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2022.13624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Gliomas are the most common malignant primary brain tumors characterized by poor prognosis. The genotyping of tumors using next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms enables the identification of genetic alterations that constitute diagnostic, prognostic and predictive biomarkers. The present study investigated the molecular profile of 32 tumor samples from 32 patients with high-grade gliomas by implementing a broad 80-gene targeted NGS panel while reporting their clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes. Subsequently, 14 of 32 tumor specimens were also genotyped using a 55-gene NGS panel to validate the diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of the extended panel. The median follow-up was 19.2 months. In total, 129 genetic alterations including 33 structural variants were identified in 38 distinct genes. Among 96 variants (single nucleotide variants and insertions and deletions), 38 were pathogenic and 58 variants of unknown clinical significance. TP53 was the most frequently mutated gene, followed by PTEN and IDH1 genes. Glioma patients with IDH1 mutant tumors were younger and had significantly longer overall survival compared to patients with wild-type IDH1 tumors. Similarly, tumors with TP53 mutations were more likely observed in younger patients with glioma. Subsequently, a comparison of mutational profiles of samples analyzed by both panels was also performed. Implementation of the comprehensive pan-cancer and the MOL panels resulted in the identification of 37 and 15 variants, respectively. Of those, 13 were common. Comprehensive pan-cancer panel identified 24 additional variants, 22 of which were located in regions that were not targeted by the MOL panel. By contrast, the MOL panel identified two additional variants. Overall, the present study demonstrated that using an extended tumor profile assay instead of a glioma-specific tumor profile panel identified additional genetic changes that may be taken into consideration as potential therapeutic targets for glioma diagnosis and molecular classification.
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- Ourania Romanidou
- Department of Medicine, Medical Oncology Unit, Giannitsa General Hospital, 58100 Giannitsa, Greece
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, InRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, 15341 Athens, Greece
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Data Office, 11526 Athens, Greece
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- NIPD Genetics Ltd., 2409 Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, InRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, 15341 Athens, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, 15123 Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Department, European Interbalkan Medical Center, 55535 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, InRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, 15341 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece,Department of Medical Oncology, German Oncology Center, 4108 Limassol, Republic of Cyprus
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- NIPD Genetics Ltd., 2409 Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus,School of Medicine, University of Nicosia Medical School, 2417 Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus,Correspondence to: Professor Philippos C. Patsalis, NIPD Genetics Ltd., 31 Neas Engomis, Engomi, 2409 Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus, E-mail:
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Papadopoulou K, Koliou GA, Tsimiliotis D, Kotoula V, Foukas P, Goussia A, Tsiatas M, Visvikis A, Chatzopoulos K, Nifora M, Charchanti A, Koumarianou A, Christodoulou C, Pectasides D, Psyrri A, Fostira F, Fountzilas G, Samantas E. Investigation of prognostic biomarkers in patients with urothelial carcinoma treated with platinum-based regimens. Urol Oncol 2022; 40:538.e15-538.e24. [PMID: 36041976 DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2022.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Revised: 07/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Bladder cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous malignancy with dismal outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS Mutations in genes, altered or linked to platinum sensitivity in BC, were examined in 66 patients' tumors along with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) density and MMR, PD-L1 and CD8 protein expression, as well as basal and luminal subtypes, defined by protein expression of markers, including CK5/6 and GATA3 or CK20, respectively. RESULTS 41 tumors harbored mutations, mainly in TP53 (38%), ARID1A (17%) and the DNA damage response and repair (DDR) genes ERCC2 (17%) and BRCA2 (15%). Mutations in other DDR relevant genes were also present. Age showed unfavorable prognosis for overall survival (HR=1.07, P = 0.026); no benefit was seen for patients with TP53, ARID1A, ERCC2 or BRCA2 mutations or mutations in 1 or more DDR genes. PD-L1 status positively correlated with stromal (rho=0.46, P < 0.001) and intratumoral (rho=0.53, P < 0.001) CD8 expression or TILs (rho=0.29, P = 0.018); none associated with overall survival (OS). A statistically significant difference was observed between PD-L1 status and immunohistochemistry (IHC)‑based subtypes, with tumors classified as luminal (GATA3+ and/or CK20+ and CK5/6-) showing lower PD-L1 expression relative to basal (CK5/6+ and GATA3- and/or CK20-) (median value 0 vs. 2.5, P = 0.029). Concerning OS, no statistically significant difference was seen among patients with basal or luminal tumors. CONCLUSION No association was seen herein between DDR mutations, TILs, PD-L1, CD8 expression or IHC-based subtypes and patient survival; these observations warrant validation within a larger cohort.
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- Kyriaki Papadopoulou
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Second Department of Pathology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Haidari, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Oncology, Athens Medical Center, Marousi, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Second Department of Pathology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Haidari, Greece
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- Department of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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- Hematology Oncology Unit, Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Section of Medical Oncology, Athens, Greece
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- Attikon University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, InRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Department of Medical Oncology, German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Rapti V, Moirogiorgou E, Koliou GA, Papadopoulou K, Binas I, Pentheroudakis G, Bafaloukos D, Bobos M, Chatzopoulos K, Chrisafi S, Christodoulou C, Nicolaou I, Sotiropoulou M, Magkou C, Koutras A, Papakostas P, Kotsakis A, Razis E, Psyrri A, Tryfonopoulos D, Pectasides D, Res E, Alexopoulos A, Kotoula V, Fountzilas G. mRNA expression of specific HER ligands and their association with clinical outcome in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. Oncol Lett 2021; 23:23. [PMID: 34868360 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2021.13141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Prognostic and predictive biomarkers are being studied for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The present study retrospectively assessed the mRNA expression of HER family receptor ligands and of other potential prognostic biomarkers and their association with time to progression (TTP), survival and clinicopathological characteristics in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) treated with trastuzumab. A total of 145 tumour tissue samples were analysed. mRNA expression analysis of the transcripts of interest was performed and the association of these markers with selected clinicopathological parameters was examined. HER2 status was centrally re-evaluated. Only 67.6% of patients were truly HER2-positive according to the central HER2 re-evaluation. Heparin binding epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like growth factor, transforming growth factor β1 (TGFB1) and thyroid hormone receptor α (THRA) mRNA expression was higher in HER2-positive patients (P=0.026, P<0.001 and P<0.001). Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 4 was correlated with retinoic acid receptor α, TGFB1 and THRA (rho=0.45, rho=0.60 and rho=0.45). In HER2-positive patients, high neuregulin 1 and high betacellulin were unfavourable factors for TTP [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.78, P=0.040 and HR=2.00, P=0.043, respectively]. In patients with de novo MBC, high EGF expression was associated with a non-significant prolongation of TTP (HR=0.52, P=0.080) and significantly longer survival (HR=0.40, P=0.020). The present study examined clinical and biological implications of specific genes and it was concluded that their expression has an impact on the outcome of trastuzumab-treated patients with MBC.
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- Vassiliki Rapti
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Agios Savvas Cancer Hospital, 11522 Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospital, 18547 Piraeus, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, 45500 Ioannina, Greece.,Society for Study of Clonal Heterogeneity of Neoplasia (EMEKEN), 45500 Ioannina, Greece
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- First Department of Medical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospital, 18547 Piraeus, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Histopathology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, 14564 Athens, Greece
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- Pathology Department, Evangelismos Hospital, 10676 Athens, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, 26504 Patras, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Heraklion School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71500 Crete, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, 15123 Athens, Greece
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- Section of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, 12462 Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Kifissia 14564 Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece.,Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece.,Department of Medical Oncology, German Oncology Center, 4108 Limassol, Cyprus
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Kourea HP, Dimitrakopoulos FI, Koliou GA, Batistatou A, Papadopoulou K, Bobos M, Asimaki-Vlachopoulou A, Chrisafi S, Pavlakis K, Chatzopoulos K, Galani E, Pentheroudakis G, Pectasides D, Bafaloukos D, Res E, Papakostas P, Koutras A, Kotoula V, Fountzilas G. Clinical Significance of Major Angiogenesis-Related Effectors in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer Treated with Trastuzumab-based Regimens. Cancer Res Treat 2021; 54:1053-1064. [PMID: 34793664 PMCID: PMC9582468 DOI: 10.4143/crt.2021.748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Purpose Angiogenesis is a crucial phenomenon in the development and progression of breast cancer (BC), but the clinical significance of angiogenesis-related proteins in metastatic BC remains unknown. This study investigates the prognostic value of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors 1, 2, 3 (VEGFR1, VEGFR2, VEGFR3) as well as vascular endothelial growth factors A and C (VEGFA and VEGFC) in metastatic BC patients treated with trastuzumab-based regimens. Materials and Method Two hundred female patients were included. Protein and mRNA expression of the studied angiogenesis-related factors were evaluated by immunohistochemistry and quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR), respectively. Results High expression of VEGFA, VEGFC, VEGFR1, VEGFR2 and VEGFR3 in the tumor cells was observed in 43.5%, 24.2%, 36%, 29.5% and 43%, respectively. Stromal elements expressed high levels of VEGFA, VEGFC, VEGFR1, VEGFR2, VEGFR3 in 78.9%, 93.3%, 90.7%, 90.2 %,74.8% of tumors with available data. High tumor cell expression of VEGFR1 was a favorable prognosticator for survival among patients with HER2-positive tumors (HR=0.55, p=0.013). A trend towards longer progression free survival (PFS) was detected univariately for patients with HER2-negative tumors and high expression of VEGFR2, (HR=0.60, p=0.059). Conclusion VEGFR1 and VEGFR2 seem to have significant prognostic value in BC patients with metastatic disease treated with trastuzumab-based regimens.
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- Helen P Kourea
- Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Patras, Rion, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Pathology Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.,Society for Study of Clonal Heterogeneity of Neoplasia (EMEKEN), Ioannina, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Department of Medical Oncology, German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus
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Kotoula V, Papadopoulou K, Tikas I, Fostira F, Vrettou E, Chrisafi S, Fountzilas E, Koliou GA, Apostolou P, Papazisis K, Zaramboukas T, Asimaki-Vlachopoulou A, Miliaras S, Ananiadis A, Poulios C, Natsiopoulos I, Tsiftsoglou A, Demiri E, Fountzilas G. Follow-up of tissue genomics in BRCA1/2 carriers who underwent prophylactic surgeries. Breast Cancer 2021; 28:1367-1382. [PMID: 34304347 DOI: 10.1007/s12282-021-01276-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE The genomic status of non-malignant tissues from carriers of pathogenic germline BRCA1/2 (gBRCA1/2) variants may reveal information towards individualized prophylaxis. We performed spatiotemporal tissue genotype comparisons in a real-life cohort of gBRCA1/2 carriers of Greek origin, who underwent multiple risk-reducing/prophylactic surgeries at various time points. METHODS Fifty-three women (median age 36 years) within cancer families were observed for up to 37.5 years; 43 were cancer carriers and 10 were healthy carriers. Histology review and genotyping were performed for 187 paraffin tissues (average: 3.5 per carrier) including 46 carcinomas (40 breast) and 141 non-malignant breast and gynecological samples. RESULTS High allelic imbalance (AI) and somatic pathogenic TP53 variants were present in cancer carriers only (p values < 0.0001). High AI was associated with gBRCA1/2 indels (p < 0.0001) and gBRCA2 alterations (p = 0.0109). Somatic (pathogenic) variants were infrequently shared between non-malignant tissues and matched carcinomas. Aberrations of gBRCA1 variant heterozygosity were noticed in tissues from cancer carriers only (13/43, 30.2%). These pertained to classic LOH (neoplastic lesions in 9/43 carriers, 20.9%) and under-representation of the germline variants (5 samples, 4 non-malignant, all in the breast). Both aberrations coexisted in matched samples in one case. Over time, germline variant heterozygosity prevailed in non-malignant tissues; intra-carrier genomic alterations were aggravated (21.1%), ameliorated (26.3%) or remained stable. CONCLUSION This real-life case study supports the need to address tissue genotypes from prophylactic surgeries in combination with polygenic scores towards personalized prophylaxis. To this end, knowing the traditionally classified pathogenic potential of a gBRCA1/2 variant may not be enough.
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- Vassiliki Kotoula
- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University Campus, bld. 17b, 54124, Thessaloníki, Greece. .,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University Campus, bld. 17b, 54124, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, IRRP, National Centre for Scientific Research NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University Campus, bld. 17b, 54124, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Euromedica General Clinic of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece.,European University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, IRRP, National Centre for Scientific Research NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Interbalkan European Medical Center, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University Campus, bld. 17b, 54124, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- First Department of Surgery, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University Campus, bld. 17b, 54124, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Interbalkan European Medical Center, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Department of Surgery, St. Luke's Hospital, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Department of Plastic Surgery, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloníki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece.,German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus
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Fountzilas E, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Liontos M, Papadopoulou K, Giannoulatou E, Papanikolaou A, Tikas I, Chrisafi S, Mauri D, Chatzopoulos K, Fostira F, Pectasides D, Oikonomopoulos G, Aivazi D, Andrikopoulou A, Visvikis A, Aravantinos G, Zagouri F, Fountzilas G. Tumor Genotyping and Homologous Recombination Repair Gene Variants in Patients With Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Is Pathogenic Enough? Front Oncol 2021; 11:683057. [PMID: 34141624 PMCID: PMC8204021 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.683057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Our hypothesis was that the predictive accuracy of pathogenic variants in genes participating in the homologous recombination repair (HRR) system in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) could be improved by considering additional next-generation sequencing (NGS) metrics. NGS genotyping was performed in tumor tissue, retrospectively and prospectively collected from patients with EOC, diagnosed from 8/1998 to 10/2016. Variants were considered clonal when variant allele frequencies corresponded to >25%. The primary endpoint was overall survival (OS). This study included 501 patients with EOC, predominantly with high-grade serous (75.2%) and advanced stage tumors (81.7%); median age was 58 years (22-84). Pathogenic and clonal pathogenic variants in HRR and/or TP53 genes were identified in 72.8% and 66.5% tumors, respectively. With a median follow-up of 123.9 months, the presence of either pathogenic or clonal pathogenic HRR-only variants was associated with longer OS compared to HRR/TP53 co-mutation (HR=0.54; 95% CI, 0.34-0.87, Wald's p=0.012 and HR=0.45; 95% CI, 0.27-0.78, Wald's p=0.004, respectively). However, only the presence of clonal HRR-only variants was independently associated with improved OS (HR=0.55; 95% CI, 0.32-0.94, p=0.030). Variant clonality and co-occuring TP53 variants affect the predictive value of HRR pathogenic variants for platinum agents in patients with EOC. Clinical Trial Registration [ClinicalTrials.gov], identifier [NCT04716374].
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- Elena Fountzilas
- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Euromedica General Clinic of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Computational Genomics Laboratory, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.,The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.,Society for Study of Clonal Heterogeneity of Neoplasia (EMEKEN), Ioannina, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, InRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Department of Medical Oncology, German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus
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Lakis S, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Efstratiou I, Chrisafi S, Papanikolaou A, Zebekakis P, Fountzilas G. Multisite Tumor Sampling Reveals Extensive Heterogeneity of Tumor and Host Immune Response in Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Genomics Proteomics 2021; 17:529-541. [PMID: 32859631 DOI: 10.21873/cgp.20209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND/AIM Ovarian cancer (OVCA) is characterized by genomic/molecular intra-patient heterogeneity (IPH). Tissue histology and morphological features are surrogates of the underlying genomic/molecular contexture. We assessed the morphological IPH of OVCA tumor compartments and of lymphocytic infiltrates in multiple matched samples per patient. MATERIALS AND METHODS We examined 294 hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) OVCA tumor whole sections from 70 treatment-naïve patients who had undergone cytoreductive surgery. We assessed morphological subtypes as immunoreactive (IR), solid - proliferative (SD), papilloglandular (PG), and mesenchymal transition (MT); subtype load per patient; stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (sTIL) density as average per sample; and, as maximal sTIL values (max-TILs) among all samples per patient, ovaries and implants. RESULTS Among all 294 tumor sections, the most frequent primary morphological subtype was PG (n=150, 51.0%), followed by MT (71, 24.1%), SD (48, 16.3%) and IR (15, 5.1%). Subtype combinations were observed in 67/294 sections (22.8%) and IPH in 48/70 patients (68.6%). PG prevailed in ovaries (p<0.001), SD and MT in implants (p=0.023 and p<0.001, respectively). sTILs were higher in SD compared to non-SD (p=0.019) and lower in PG, respectively (p<0.001). sTIL density was higher in implants than in ovaries (p<0.001). Higher max-TILs were associated with stage IV disease (p=0.043), upper abdominal dissemination (p=0.024), endometrioid histology (p=0.013), and grade 3 tumors (p=0.021). Favorable prognosticators were higher max-TILs per patient (PFS, OS) and higher SD-load (PFS). CONCLUSION Clinically relevant morphological and host immune-response IPH appear to be the norm in OVCA. This may complicate efforts to decipher sensitivity of the tumor to certain treatment modalities from a single pre-operative biopsy.
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- Sotirios Lakis
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Internal Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus
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Ntzifa A, Strati A, Koliou GA, Zagouri F, Pectasides D, Pentheroudakis G, Christodoulou C, Gogas H, Magkou C, Petraki C, Kosmidis P, Aravantinos G, Kotoula V, Fountzilas G, Lianidou E. Androgen Receptor and PIM1 Expression in Tumor Tissue of Patients With Triple-negative Breast Cancer. Cancer Genomics Proteomics 2021; 18:147-156. [PMID: 33608311 DOI: 10.21873/cgp.20249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND/AIM Effective targeted therapies for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) are limited. In a subset of TNBC, androgen receptor (AR) plays an important role, while the human proviral integration site for Moloney murine leukemia virus-1 (PIM1) overexpression is also implicated. PIM1 kinases phosphorylate AR, thus regulating its transcriptional activity, regardless of the presence or not of androgens. We evaluated the expression of AR and PIM1 and their prognostic significance in TNBC. MATERIALS AND METHODS AR and PIM1 transcripts were quantified by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor from 141 patients with TNBC. RESULTS AR was expressed in 38.3%, PIM1 in 10.6%, while co-expression of AR and PIM1 was detected in 7/141 cases (5.0%). No prognostic significance of AR or PIM1 was reached for overall or disease-free survival. CONCLUSION Co-expression of AR and PIM1 exists in only in a small percentage of patients with TNBC. The implications of this finding in the therapeutic management of patients with TNBC should be investigated in larger patient cohorts.
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- Aliki Ntzifa
- Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells Laboratory, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells Laboratory, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.,Society for Study of Clonal Heterogeneity of Neoplasia (EMEKEN), Ioannina, Greece
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- First Department of Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus
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- Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells Laboratory, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece;
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Pectasides E, Chatzidakis I, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Papadopoulou K, Giannoulatou E, Giannouzakos VG, Bobos M, Papavasileiou C, Chrisafi S, Florou A, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Prognostic Biomarkers in Early-stage Gastric Adenocarcinoma Treated With Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy. Cancer Genomics Proteomics 2020; 17:277-290. [PMID: 32345669 DOI: 10.21873/cgp.20188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND/AIM Early-stage gastric cancer has a high risk of recurrence, despite trimodality therapy with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. To improve patient selection for adjuvant chemoradiotherapy, we evaluated the prognostic significance of immunohistochemical and genetic biomarkers in patients with resected gastric adenocarcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS Tumors from 119 patients were subjected to immunohistochemistry for 12 protein biomarkers, as well as next-generation sequencing. Clinical and biomarker data were available for 91 patients. RESULTS EBV-positive tumors and tumors with mutations had higher intratumoral CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte density (p=0.009 and p=0.017, respectively). PIK3CA mutations were correlated with VEGFA overexpression (p=0.042), while KRAS mutations and HER2 expression were mutually exclusive (p=0.036). PTEN expression univariately confirmed longer overall survival (HR=0.27; p=0.046), while there was a trend between the presence of KRAS mutations and inferior disease-free and overall survival. CONCLUSION PTEN protein expression and KRAS mutations may predict disease outcome in early-stage gastric cancer. These results need to be further validated in larger cohorts.
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- Eirini Pectasides
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Propaedeutic, Oncology Section, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University General Hospital Attikon, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine Laboratory, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.,The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Therapy, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Surgical Department, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Propaedeutic, Oncology Section, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University General Hospital Attikon, Athens, Greece
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Propaedeutic, Oncology Section, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University General Hospital Attikon, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus
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Chatzopoulos K, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Giannoulatou E, Papadopoulou K, Karavasilis V, Pazarli E, Pervana S, Kafiri G, Tsoulfas G, Chrisafi S, Sgouramali H, Papakostas P, Pectasides D, Hytiroglou P, Pentheroudakis G, Fountzilas G. Genotype-phenotype associations in colorectal adenocarcinomas and their matched metastases. Hum Pathol 2020; 107:104-116. [PMID: 33161028 DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2020.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Revised: 10/03/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
Although primary colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) frequently share genetic alterations with their metastases, morphologic surrogates reflecting the genotype contexture of metastases remain largely unknown. We investigated phenotype/genotype associations in paired primary and metastatic colorectal adenocarcinomas from 75 patients. Thirty-three (44%) metastatic lesions were synchronous and 42 (56%) were metachronous. Tumor budding, micronecrosis, and tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) density were compared with matched next-generation sequencing genotypes. Micronecrosis in the primary were significantly associated with nodal status (P = 0.0054) and with micronecrosis in metastatic sites (P = 0.0216), particularly in metachronous metastases (P = 0.0033). With a 57-gene panel, one or more mutations were identified in 64 (85.3%) cases. In metastases, high (brisk) TILs were associated with overall mutational burden (P = 0.0058) and with mutations in EGF (P = 0.0325), RAS genes (P = 0.0043), and MMR genes (P = 0.0069), whereas high-level micronecrosis correlated with mutations in APC (P = 0.0004) and MSH6 (P = 0.0385) genes. Genomic alterations were shared in 90.1% of primary/metastatic pairs, but clonality of the same mutation was shared in only 57.1% of paired lesions. Compared with synchronous, metachronous metastases had more private clonal alterations (P = 0.0291); in this group, clonal alterations coincided with brisk TILs (P = 0.0334) and high micronecrosis (P = 0.0133). High TILs in metastatic lesions were predictive of favorable overall survival (log-rank P = 0.044). The observed phenotype/genotype associations favor the clonal evolution model in CRC metastases that seems accompanied by intense host immune response. If the role of micronecrosis and brisk TILs in metachronous metastases is validated in larger studies, these histologic parameters will be worth adding in the armamentarium for the evaluation of metastatic CRC.
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- Kyriakos Chatzopoulos
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece; Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece; Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Data Office, Athens, 11524, Greece
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- Computational Genomics Laboratory, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010, Australia; The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, 56403, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, 56403, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, 56403, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, 11527, Greece
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- Department of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, 11527, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, 11527, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, 45500, Greece; Society for Study of Clonal Heterogeneity of Neoplasia (EMEKEN), Ioannina, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus
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Nikolaidi A, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Giannoulatou E, Papadopoulou K, Zagouri F, Pentheroudakis G, Gogas H, Bobos M, Chatzopoulos K, Oikonomopoulos G, Pectasides D, Saloustros E, Arnogiannaki N, Nicolaou I, Papakostas P, Bompolaki I, Aravantinos G, Athanasiadis I, Fountzilas G. Tumor Mutational Patterns and Infiltrating Lymphocyte Density in Young and Elderly Patients With Breast Cancer. Cancer Genomics Proteomics 2020; 17:181-193. [PMID: 32108041 DOI: 10.21873/cgp.20179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Revised: 12/16/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND/AIM Age may pertain to different tumor genotype characteristics which may interfere with treatment efficacy and prognosis. We investigated the distribution and prognostic effect of mutations and tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (stromal TIL density) in young (≤35 years) and elderly (>65 years) early breast cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Paraffin tumor genotypes of all clinical subtypes from 345 patients were examined. RESULTS A total of 638 mutations were detected in 221 patients (64.1%). Compared to young, elderly patients presented with lower TIL density (p<0.001) but more TILs in TP53 mutated tumors (p=0.042). Mutation in one, rather than in 2 or more genes, conferred better outcome (DFS: HR=0.51, p=0.016; OS: HR=0.47, p=0.015) but the effect was age-independent. CONCLUSION There are fewer TILs and different mutations patterns in tumors from elderly patients compared to young. Age and TIL-independent gene agnostic co-mutations affect patient outcome.
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine Laboratory, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.,The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.,Society for Study of Clonal Heterogeneity of Neoplasia (EMEKEN), Ioannina, Greece
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- First Department of Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Surgical Pathology, Saint Savvas Anticancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Histopathology, Agii Anagriri Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,German Oncology Center, Limassol, Cyprus
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Sotiriou S, Kotoula V, Raptou G, Pantelaion V, Hytiroglou P. Primary Subcutaneous Spindle Cell Synovial Sarcoma: First Reported Case. Am J Dermatopathol 2020; 42:384-386. [DOI: 10.1097/dad.0000000000001497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Linardou H, Kotoula V, Kouvatseas G, Mountzios G, Karavasilis V, Samantas E, Kalogera-Fountzila A, Televantou D, Papadopoulou K, Mavropoulou X, Daskalaki E, Zaramboukas T, Efstratiou I, Lampaki S, Rallis G, Res E, Syrigos KN, Kosmidis PA, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Genotyping KRAS and EGFR Mutations in Greek Patients With Non-small-cell Lung Cancer: Incidence, Significance and Implications for Treatment. Cancer Genomics Proteomics 2020; 16:531-541. [PMID: 31659106 DOI: 10.21873/cgp.20155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 09/15/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND/AIM KRAS mutations are reported in 20-25% of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and their prognostic role is unclear. We studied KRAS and EGFR genotyping in Greek NSCLC patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS KRAS and EGFR genotypes were centrally evaluated in 421 NSCLC patients (diagnosed September 1998 -June 2013) and associated with clinicopathological parameters. Outcome comparisons were performed in 288 patients receiving first line treatment. RESULTS Most patients were male (78.6%), >60 years old (63.9%), current smokers (51.1%), with adenocarcinoma histology (63.9%). EGFR and KRAS mutations were found in 10.7% and 16.6% of all histologies, respectively, and in 14.9% and 21.9% of adenocarcinomas. At 4.5 years median follow-up, KRAS status was an independent negative prognostic factor for overall survival (OS, p=0.016). KRAS mutations conferred 80% increased risk of death in patients receiving first-line treatment (p=0.002). CONCLUSION The presence of KRAS mutations is an independent negative prognosticator among Greek NSCLC patients and an independent response predictor to first line treatment.
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Second Oncology Department, Henry Dunant Hospital Center, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Radiology, AHEPA Hospital, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Radiology, AHEPA Hospital, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Unit GPP, Sotiria General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Kotoula V, Fostira F, Fountzilas E. Primary Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer-Beyond the Misdiagnosis. JAMA Oncol 2020; 5:740-741. [PMID: 30973597 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.0521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Vassiliki Kotoula
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, InRASTES, NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece
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Fountzilas E, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Giannoulatou E, Gogas H, Papadimitriou C, Tikas I, Zhang J, Papadopoulou K, Zagouri F, Christodoulou C, Koutras A, Makatsoris T, Chrisafi S, Linardou H, Varthalitis I, Papatsibas G, Razis E, Papakostas P, Samantas E, Aravantinos G, Bafaloukos D, Kosmidis P, Koumarianou A, Psyrri A, Pentheroudakis G, Pectasides D, Futreal A, Fountzilas G, Tsimberidou AM. Pathogenic mutations and overall survival in 3,084 patients with cancer: the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group Precision Medicine Initiative. Oncotarget 2020; 11:1-14. [PMID: 32002119 PMCID: PMC6967777 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.27338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Background: We evaluated the association between pathogenic mutations and overall survival (OS) in patients with cancer referred to Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group–affiliated Departments.
Patients and methods: Patients referred from 12/1980 to 1/2017 had molecular testing (for research) of archival tumor tissue collected at the time of first diagnosis (non-metastatic, 81%; metastatic, 19%). Tumor-specific gene panels (16-101 genes) were used to identify pathogenic mutations in clinically relevant genes. NGS genotyping was performed at the Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Annotation of mutations was performed at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Results: We analyzed 3,084 patients (median age, 57 years; men, 22%) with sequencing data. Overall, 1,775 (58% of 3,084) patients had pathogenic mutations. The median follow-up was 7.52 years (95% CI, 7.39-7.61). In patients with non-metastatic tumors, after stratification by tumor type, increasing age, higher grade, and histology other than adenocarcinoma were associated with shorter OS. OS was also shorter in patients with pathogenic TP53 (HR=1.36; p<0.001), MLL3 (HR=1.64; p=0.005), and BRCA1 (HR=1.46; p=0.047) mutations compared to wild-type genes. In multivariate analyses, independent prognostic factors predicting shorter OS were pathogenic mutations in TP53 (HR=1.37, p=0.002) and MLL3 (HR=1.50, p=0.027); increasing age (HR=1.02, p<0.001); and increasing grade (HR=1.46, p<0.001). In patients with metastatic cancer, older age and higher grade were associated with shorter OS and maintained their independent prognostic significance (increasing age, HR=1.03, p<0.001 and higher grade, HR=1.73, p<0.001).
Conclusions: Analysis of molecular data reveals prognostic biomarkers, regardless of tissue or organ of origin to improve patient management.
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- Elena Fountzilas
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, Houston, TX, USA.,Current address: Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.,The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- First Department of Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Unit, Aretaieion Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Oncology Department, University General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Section of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.,Society for Study of Clonal Heterogeneity of Neoplasia (EMEKEN), Ioannina, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Genomic Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, Houston, TX, USA
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Wang Q, Kotoula V, Hsu PC, Papadopoulou K, Ho JWK, Fountzilas G, Giannoulatou E. Comparison of somatic variant detection algorithms using Ion Torrent targeted deep sequencing data. BMC Med Genomics 2019; 12:181. [PMID: 31874647 PMCID: PMC6929331 DOI: 10.1186/s12920-019-0636-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The application of next-generation sequencing in cancer has revealed the genomic landscape of many tumour types and is nowadays routinely used in research and clinical settings. Multiple algorithms have been developed to detect somatic variation from sequencing data using either paired tumour-blood or tumour-only samples. Most of these methods have been developed and evaluated for the identification of somatic variation using Illumina sequencing datasets of moderate coverage. However, a comprehensive evaluation of somatic variant detection algorithms on Ion Torrent targeted deep sequencing data has not been performed. Methods We have applied three somatic detection algorithms, Torrent Variant Caller, MuTect2 and VarScan2, on a large cohort of ovarian cancer patients comprising of 208 paired tumour-blood samples and 253 tumour-only samples sequenced deeply on Ion Torrent Proton platform across 330 amplicons. Subsequently, the concordance and performance of the three somatic variant callers were assessed. Results We have observed low concordance across the algorithms with only 0.5% of SNV and 0.02% of INDEL calls in common across all three methods. The intersection of all methods showed better performance when assessed using correlation with known mutational signatures, overlap with COSMIC variation and by examining the variant characteristics. The Torrent Variant Caller also performed well with the advantage of not eliminating a high number of variants that could lead to high type II error. Conclusions Our results suggest that caution should be taken when applying state-of-the-art somatic variant algorithms to Ion Torrent targeted deep sequencing data. Better quality control procedures and strategies that combine results from multiple methods should ensure that higher accuracy is achieved. This is essential to ensure that results from bioinformatics pipelines using Ion Torrent deep sequencing can be robustly applied in cancer research and in the clinic.
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- Qing Wang
- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Australia.,School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Australia.,School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, China.,St Vincent's Clinical School, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Australia. .,St Vincent's Clinical School, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
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Pentheroudakis G, Mavroeidis L, Papadopoulou K, Koliou GA, Bamia C, Chatzopoulos K, Samantas E, Mauri D, Efstratiou I, Pectasides D, Makatsoris T, Bafaloukos D, Papakostas P, Papatsibas G, Bombolaki I, Chrisafi S, Kourea HP, Petraki K, Kafiri G, Fountzilas G, Kotoula V. Angiogenic and Antiangiogenic VEGFA Splice Variants in Colorectal Cancer: Prospective Retrospective Cohort Study in Patients Treated With Irinotecan-Based Chemotherapy and Bevacizumab. Clin Colorectal Cancer 2019; 18:e370-e384. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clcc.2019.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Revised: 04/07/2019] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Chatzopoulos K, Kotoula V, Manoussou K, Markou K, Vlachtsis K, Angouridakis N, Nikolaou A, Vassilakopoulou M, Psyrri A, Fountzilas G. Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes and CD8+ T Cell Subsets as Prognostic Markers in Patients with Surgically Treated Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Head Neck Pathol 2019; 14:689-700. [PMID: 31749124 PMCID: PMC7413976 DOI: 10.1007/s12105-019-01101-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
To evaluate the prognostic significance of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and of CD8+ T-cell subsets in patients with surgically treated laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), LSCC from 283 patients were examined. TIL density was morphologically assessed on whole sections. CD8+ cell counts/mm2 were evaluated on multiple tissue microarray cores per tumor (median counts for high/low CD8+/mm2). TIL density and CD8+ counts weakly correlated with each other (Spearman's rho = 0.348). Heterogeneous CD8+ counts/mm2 were demonstrated in 28% of the tumors. In univariate analysis, a significant interaction was observed between CD8 expression and nodal status with respect to outcome; in node-positive patients, those with high CD8+ tumors had 77% lower risk of relapse (interaction p < 0.001) and 74% lower risk for death (interaction p = 0.002) compared to patients with low CD8+ tumors. In multivariate analysis, higher TIL density independently conferred lower risk for relapse in the entire cohort (HR 0.87; 95% CI 0.77-0.98; Wald's p = 0.017) and in node-positive patients (HR 0.41; 95% CI 0.23-0.75; p = 0.003) and, similarly, for death (p = 0.025 and p = 0.003, respectively). High CD8+ was not a significant independent prognostic marker in any analysis setting. The assessment of CD8+ infiltrates does not seem to offer additional prognostic information over the morphologically assessed TIL density. It also appears that the favorable prognostic impact of higher TIL density and CD8+ infiltrates mostly concerns node-positive but not node-negative disease. If validated in larger node-positive cohorts, these findings are worth considering for the diagnostic development of immune cell infiltrates in LSCC.
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- Kyriakos Chatzopoulos
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, School of Medicine, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece ,Present Address: Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905 USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, School of Medicine, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece ,Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Data Office, Athens, Greece
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- First Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- ENT Department, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, School of Medicine, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece ,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Foukas P, Koliou GA, Papoudou-Bai A, Charchanti A, Vrettou E, Poulios C, Chatzopoulos K, Kotoula V, Fountzilas E, Zakopoulou R, Visvikis A, Pentheroudakis G, Pectasides D, Aravantinos G, Oikonomopoulos G, Papanikolaou A, Haidopoulos D, Zagouri F, Fountzilas G, Goussia A. Prognostic significance of elements of the adaptive immunity in the microenvironment of epithelial ovarian cancer. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz250.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Zarkavelis G, Kotoula V, Kolliou GA, Papadopoulou K, Tikas I, Karavasilis V, Samantas E, Dervenis C, Efstratiou I, Nicolaou I, Apessou D, Kafiri G, Koletsa T, Bompolaki I, Rallis G, Batistatou A, Glantzounis G, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G, Pentheroudakis G. Genetic mapping of pancreatic cancer by targeted next-generation sequencing in a cohort of patients managed with nab-paclitaxel-based chemotherapy or agents targeting the EGFR axis: a retrospective analysis of the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG). ESMO Open 2019; 4:e000525. [PMID: 31673425 PMCID: PMC6802956 DOI: 10.1136/esmoopen-2019-000525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Revised: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most fatal malignancies ranking fourth among the leading causes of cancer death with diagnosis at late stages carrying a dismal prognosis. The aim of our retrospective study was to describe the nature and the incidence of gene mutations and genomic instability in advanced pancreatic adenocarcinomas of a Greek patient population fully annotated with clinicopathological data. We used a targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel encompassing genes commonly mutated in pancreatic tumours in a patient population managed with either nab-paclitaxel regimens or targeted compounds modulating the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)/AKT/mTOR axis. We identified KRAS, TP53, SMAD4 and CDKN2A as being the most prevalent mutations in the study population with the exception of an intriguingly lower incidence regarding KRAS mutants. Homologous recombination gene mutations were found to be mutually exclusive with CDKN2A mutations. The coexistence of both KRAS and TP53 mutation seems to adversely affect the outcome of the patients whether treated with targeted therapy against EGFR/Akt/mTOR axis or cytotoxic drugs. The poor prognosis observed, correlated to late presentation, specific molecular mutations and to high mutational load warrant prospective validating studies and research into the mechanistic pathophysiology of pancreatic tumours for more effective therapeutic targeting.
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- George Zarkavelis
- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.,Society for Study of Clonal Heterogeneity of Neoplasia (EMEKEN), Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- First Department of Surgery, General Hospital Konstantopouleio Agia Olga, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Histopathology, Agii Anagriri Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, General Hospital Konstantopouleio Agia Olga, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.,Society for Study of Clonal Heterogeneity of Neoplasia (EMEKEN), Ioannina, Greece
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Lazaridis G, Kotoula V, Vrettou E, Kostopoulos I, Manousou K, Papadopoulou K, Giannoulatou E, Bobos M, Sotiropoulou M, Pentheroudakis G, Efstratiou I, Papoudou-Bai A, Psyrri A, Christodoulou C, Gogas H, Koutras A, Timotheadou E, Pectasides D, Zagouri F, Fountzilas G. Opposite Prognostic Impact of Single PTEN-loss and PIK3CA Mutations in Early High-risk Breast Cancer. Cancer Genomics Proteomics 2019; 16:195-206. [PMID: 31018950 DOI: 10.21873/cgp.20125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Revised: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 03/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND/AIM PTEN-loss and PIK3CA mutations have been addressed as markers of PI3K activation in breast cancer. We evaluated these markers in early high-risk breast cancer (EBC) focusing on PTEN immunohistochemistry (IHC) issues, particularly in HER2-positive disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS We examined PTEN-loss and PIK3CA mutations in 1265 EBC patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy within two clinical trials. Two different methods for the evaluation of PTEN IHC were used, one upfront binary (loss; no-loss) and the other initially multi-scale allowing for the classification of "grey zone" tumors with low and very low PTEN protein expression. RESULTS PTEN-loss (33.4% and 22.1%, depending on the IHC method) and PIK3CA mutations (29.6%) were associated with ER/PgR/HER2-negative and ER/PgR-positive disease, respectively. Concordance of the two IHC methods was moderate (Cohen's kappa 0.624). PTEN-loss discrepancy and intra-tumor heterogeneity concerned "grey zone" tumors that were prevalent among HER2-positive cancers. PTEN-loss independently conferred higher risk for relapse and death. Compared to single PIK3CA mutations,single PTEN-loss was independently associated with increased risk for relapse and death. Depending on the evaluation method, in HER2-positive cancer, PTEN-loss was without- or of marginal unfavorable prognostic significance. CONCLUSION In EBC, PTEN-loss is an independent predictor of poor outcome. When occurring singly, PTEN-loss and PIK3CA mutations have opposite prognostic impact. In HER2-positive disease, assessment of PTEN-loss by IHC appears unreliable and the marker is without clear prognostic significance.
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- Georgios Lazaridis
- Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Data Office, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.,The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- First Department of Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Kotoula V, Fountzilas E, Koliou GA, Papadopoulou K, Giannoulatou E, Tikas I, Zagouri F, Christodoulou C, Pentheroudakis G, Koutras A, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Abstract 486: Pathogenic drivers and their comutations in genes frequently altered in cancer. Cancer Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2019-486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background - aim: The as yet publicized results from Precision Oncology trials highlight the need to define parameters that may interfere with the actionability of common pathogenic drivers. One such parameter may be the presence of multiple drivers within the same tumor. Here, we investigated the properties of single and coexisting pathogenic mutations in genes frequently altered and targeted across cancers.
Methods: We examined informative deep sequencing data for TP53, PIK3CA, KRAS and BRCA1 from 2672 paraffin tumors that were obtained at first diagnosis (88% stage I-III; 12% stage IV) from patients with breast (n=1745), colorectal (n=524), nasopharyngeal (n=143), gastric (n=102), biliary tree (n=81), nasopharyngeal (n=143) and ovarian (n=77) cancer. Single mutation corresponds to the presence of a pathogenic mutation in only one of these genes; co-mutation, to the presence of pathogenic mutations in ≥2 genes. We examined the status of single and co-mutations compared to disease stage and patient overall survival (OS) stratified by tumor type.
Results: Pathogenic mutations in any of the 4 genes were observed in 1337 (50% of all tumors) and co-mutation in 347 tumors (28% of tumors with mutations in these genes). Single mutations and co-mutations were observed in 481 (36.0%) and 322 (24.1%) tumors for TP53, respectively; in 350 (26.0%) and 198 (14.8%) for PIK3CA; in 80 (6%) and 198 (14.8%) for KRAS; and, in 51 (3.9%) and 120 (9.0%) for BRCA1. Co-mutations of BRCA1 and KRAS were more frequent than single mutations in the two genes across tumor types (p’s<0.010). The same was observed for PIK3CA and TP53 except for breast cancer, where single mutations were more frequent than co-mutations (p’s<0.001). Compared to stage I-III, stage IV tumors were more frequently mutated in TP53, KRAS and BRCA1 (p’s<0.010) but were significantly less often mutated in PIK3CA (p<0.001). Co-mutation rates for BRCA1, KRAS and TP53 did not differ between stage I-III and IV tumors but these were significantly different for PIK3CA (33.5% in I-III vs. 64.3% in IV; p<0.001). Upon stratification by tumor type, in stage I-III disease, compared to tumors with co-mutations, single BRCA1, TP53 and KRAS mutations conferred similar OS, but single PIK3CA mutations conferred significantly lower risk for death (HR 0.52; 95%CI 0.35-0.77; p<0.001). In stage IV disease, compared to no mutations, single KRAS or TP53 were associated with poor OS (p=0.017 and p=0.025, respectively) but this effect disappeared in patients with KRAS/TP53 co-mutated tumors.
Conclusions: Co-mutation patterns of known cancer drivers vary with respect to the affected gene, tumor type and disease stage. Known drivers have distinct prognostic impact when occurring singly or co-altered in the non-metastatic and metastatic setting, which may need to be considered in Precision Oncology trials.
Citation Format: Vassiliki Kotoula, Elena Fountzilas, Georgia-Angeliki Koliou, Kyriaki Papadopoulou, Eleni Giannoulatou, Ioannis Tikas, Flora Zagouri, Christos Christodoulou, Georgios Pentheroudakis, Angelos Koutras, Dimitrios Pectasides, George Fountzilas. Pathogenic drivers and their comutations in genes frequently altered in cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 486.
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- 3Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst / University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
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- 2Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Athens, Greece
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- 2Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Athens, Greece
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Mountzios G, Kotoula V, Kolliou GA, Papadopoulou K, Lazaridis G, Christodoulou C, Pentheroudakis G, Skondra M, Koutras A, Linardou H, Razis E, Papakostas P, Chrisafi S, Aravantinos G, Nicolaou I, Goussia A, Kalogeras K, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Cyclin D1 differential activation and its prognostic impact in patients with advanced breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. ESMO Open 2019; 4:e000441. [PMID: 31231556 PMCID: PMC6555606 DOI: 10.1136/esmoopen-2018-000441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2018] [Revised: 01/20/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Introduction We sought to determine the level of activation of the critical components of the cyclin D1-mediated pathway and to evaluate their prognostic significance across the different molecular subtypes of advanced breast cancer. Patients and methods The study population comprised 219 female patients with advanced breast cancer who had been found to have human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive disease by local testing and were all treated with trastuzumab-based regimens. For all tumours, central testing for HER2 was performed, and cyclin D1 gene (CCND1) amplification, mRNA and protein expression were assessed by FISH, quantitative real-time-PCR and immunohistochemistry, respectively. Prognostic impact on clinical endpoints was evaluated with Cox regression analyses. Results After central testing, only 134 (61.2%) of 219 patients were confirmed to have HER2 gene amplification by FISH and/or 3+ HER2 protein expression by immunohistochemistry. After a median follow-up time of 136.0 months (95% CI 123.3 to 148.9), 105 (78.4%) HER2-positive patients and 76 (89.4%) HER2-negative patients had died, while 80% of the former and 87.1% of the latter had experienced a disease relapse. Patients with positive oestrogen receptor/progesterone receptor status presented with higher cyclin D1 mRNA expression. In the HER2-negative subgroup, patients with negative cyclin D1 protein expression were at higher risk of progression (HR= 1.66, 95%CI 1.01 to 2.72, Wald’s p=0.045). Among de novo metastatic patients, the risk of progression was higher for patients with non-amplified CCND1 tumours (HR= 2.00, 95% CI 1.03 to 3.90, p=0.041). Conclusion Aberrant activation of the cyclin D1-mediated pathway appears to reduce the risk of progression in HER2-negative tumours, but not in HER2-positive ones.
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- G Mountzios
- School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- First Department of Medical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Histopathology, Agii Anargiri Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Pathology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Rallis G, Koletsa T, Saridaki Z, Manousou K, Koliou GA, Kostopoulos I, Kotoula V, Makatsoris T, Kourea HP, Raptou G, Chrisafi S, Samantas E, Papaparaskeva K, Pazarli E, Papakostas P, Kafiri G, Mauri D, Papoudou-Bai A, Christodoulou C, Petraki K, Dombros N, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Association of Notch and Hedgehog Pathway Activation With Prognosis in Early-stage Colorectal Cancer. Anticancer Res 2019; 39:2129-2138. [PMID: 30952759 DOI: 10.21873/anticanres.13326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Revised: 03/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIM Early-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) carries a wide range of survival probabilities. Novel biomarkers in this setting are eagerly awaited. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are considered one of the reasons for treatment failure. This study sought to determine whether activation of pathways governing the function of CSC's could correlate with treatment outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS Tumor specimens from 325 patients were analyzed with immunohistochemistry (IHC) for Hedgehog and Notch pathway activation and results were correlated with prognosis. RESULTS Positive Notch3 protein expression was an unfavorable prognostic factor for disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) (HR=2.43, p=0.024 and HR=2.56, p=0.028, respectively). Activation of the Shh pathway showed univariately longer DFS (HR=0.49, p=0.032). Possible crosstalk between the two pathways was indicated. No further associations between pathway activation and outcome were evident. CONCLUSION Apart from Notch 3, activation of the pathways, as indicated by IHC expression of their components, did not result in differences in terms of DFS or OS.
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- Grigorios Rallis
- Department of Medical Oncology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Data Office, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, General Hospital Konstantopouleio Agia Olga, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece .,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Economopoulou P, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Papadopoulou K, Christodoulou C, Pentheroudakis G, Lazaridis G, Arapantoni-Dadioti P, Koutras A, Bafaloukos D, Papakostas P, Patsea H, Pavlakis K, Pectasides D, Kotsakis A, Razis E, Aravantinos G, Samantas E, Kalogeras KT, Economopoulos T, Psyrri A, Fountzilas G. Prognostic Impact of Src, CDKN1B, and JAK2 Expression in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Trastuzumab. Transl Oncol 2019; 12:739-748. [PMID: 30877976 PMCID: PMC6423363 DOI: 10.1016/j.tranon.2019.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND: Src, CDKN1B, and JAK2 play a crucial role in the coordination of cell signaling pathways. In the present study, we aim to investigate the prognostic significance of these biomarkers in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients treated with trastuzumab (T). METHODS: Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor tissue samples from 197 patients with HER2-positive MBC treated with T were retrospectively collected. All tissue samples were centrally assessed for ER, PgR, Ki67, HER2, and PTEN protein expression; EGFR gene amplification; PI3KCA mutational status; and tumor-infiltrating lympocytes density. Src, CDKN1B, and JAK2 mRNA expression was evaluated using quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS: Only 133 of the 197 patients (67.5%) were found to be HER2-positive by central assessment. CDKN1B mRNA expression was strongly correlated with Src (rho = 0.71) and JAK2 (rho = 0.54). In HER2-positive patients, low CDKN1B conferred higher risk for progression [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.58, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.08-2.32, P = .018]. In HER2-negative patients, low Src was associated with longer survival (HR = 0.56, 95% CI 0.32-0.99, P = .045). Upon multivariate analyses, only low CDKN1B and JAK2 mRNA expression remained unfavorable factors for PFS in de novo and relapsed (R)-MBC patients, respectively (HR = 2.36, 95% CI 1.01-5.48, P = .046 and HR = 1.76, 95% CI 1.01-3.06, P = .047, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Low CDKN1B and JAK2 mRNA expressions were unfavorable prognosticators in a cohort of T-treated MBC patients. Our results suggest that CDKN1B and JAK2, if validated, may serve as prognostic factors potentially implicated in T resistance, which seems to be associated with distinct pathways in de novo and R-MBC.
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- Panagiota Economopoulou
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, 1 Rimini St 12462, Haidari, Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University Campus, Building 17B, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece; Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Building 17B, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, 18 Hatzikonstanti St, 11524, Athens, Greece.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Building 17B, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospital, 9 Ethnarchou Makariou St, 185 47, Piraeus, Greece.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Ioannina University Hospital, Leof. Stavrou Niarchou, 45500, Ioannina, Greece.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Ring Road, Nea Efkarpia, 56450, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Panepistimioupoli Patron, 26504, Patras, Greece.
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- First department of Medical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospital, 9 Ethnarchou Makariou St, 185 47, Piraeus, Greece.
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- Oncology Unit, Hippokration Hospital, 114 Vasilissis Sofias Av, 11527, Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Pathology, IASSO General Hospital, 264 Mesogion Av, 15562, Athens, Greece
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- Pathology Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, 114 Vasilissis Sofias Av, 11527, Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Voutes, 71110, Crete, Greece.
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, 4 Erithrou Stavrou St, Marousi, 15123, Athens, Greece.
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Timiou Stavrou, 14564, Kifisia, Athens, Greece.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Building 17B, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece; Translational Research Section, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, 18 Hatzikonstanti St, 11524, Athens, Greece.
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, 1 Rimini St 12462, Haidari, Athens, Greece.
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- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, 1 Rimini St 12462, Haidari, Athens, Greece.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Building 17B, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Fountzilas E, Kotoula V, Pentheroudakis G, Manousou K, Polychronidou G, Vrettou E, Poulios C, Papadopoulou E, Raptou G, Pectasides E, Karayannopoulou G, Chrisafi S, Papakostas P, Makatsoris T, Varthalitis I, Psyrri A, Samantas E, Bobos M, Christodoulou C, Papadimitriou C, Nasioulas G, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Prognostic implications of mismatch repair deficiency in patients with nonmetastatic colorectal and endometrial cancer. ESMO Open 2019; 4:e000474. [PMID: 31231557 PMCID: PMC6555870 DOI: 10.1136/esmoopen-2018-000474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Background The clinical relevance of mismatch repair (MMR) status in patients with nonmetastatic cancer across tumour types remains unclear. Our goal was to investigate the prognostic role of MMR deficiency in patients with stage I-III colorectal and endometrial cancer. Methods Patients with nonmetastatic colorectal and endometrial cancer with tumour tissue available for analysis were identified through the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG)'s tumour repository. Patients had been referred to Departments of Medical Oncology affiliated with HeCOG. MMR protein expression was evaluated by immunohistochemistry. The primary outcome measure was overall survival (OS). Results From May 1990 to September 2012, 1158 patients with nonmetastatic colorectal (N = 991) and endometrial cancer (N = 167) were identified (median age: 64 years, men: 544). All patients with colorectal and 109 (65%) with endometrial cancer had received adjuvant treatment. MMR deficiency was observed in 114 (11.5%) of colorectal and 80 (47.9%) of endometrial tumours. More commonly deficient proteins were PMS2 (69 patients, 7%) and MLH1 (63 patients, 6.5%) in colorectal cancer and MSH2 (58 patients, 34.7%) in endometrial cancer. Colorectal MMR-deficient (dMMR) tumours were more likely to be right sided (65 % dMMR vs 27 % proficient MMR, pMMR; p < 0.001), high grade (31% vs 15%, χ2, p < 0.001) and with a mucinous component (64% vs 42%, p < 0.001). Endometrial dMMR tumours were more often of endometrioid histology (51.4 % endometrioid vs 20 % serous/clear cell, p = 0.020). Compared with MMR proficiency, MMR deficiency was associated with improved OS in patients with endometrial cancer (HR = 0.38, 95% CI 0.20 to 0.76, p = 0.006), but not in patients with colorectal cancer (HR = 0.73, 95% CI 0.49 to 1.09, p = 0.130). After adjusting for age, stage and grade, MMR deficiency maintained its favourable prognostic significance in patients with endometrial cancer (HR = 0.42, 95% CI 0.20 to 0.88, p = 0.021). Conclusions DMMR was associated with improved outcomes in patients with nonmetastatic endometrial cancer, but not in patients with nonmetastatic colorectal cancer who received adjuvant chemotherapy.
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- Elena Fountzilas
- Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Data Office, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- Section of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, AgiiAnargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Carvajal-Hausdorf DE, Patsenker J, Stanton KP, Villarroel-Espindola F, Esch A, Montgomery RR, Psyrri A, Kalogeras KT, Kotoula V, Foutzilas G, Schalper KA, Kluger Y, Rimm DL. Multiplexed (18-Plex) Measurement of Signaling Targets and Cytotoxic T Cells in Trastuzumab-Treated Patients using Imaging Mass Cytometry. Clin Cancer Res 2019; 25:3054-3062. [PMID: 30796036 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-18-2599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2018] [Revised: 12/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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PURPOSE Imaging mass cytometry (IMC) uses metal-conjugated antibodies to provide multidimensional, objective measurement of protein targets. We used this high-throughput platform to perform an 18-plex assessment of HER2 ICD/ECD, cytotoxic T-cell infiltration and other structural and signaling proteins in a cohort of patients treated with trastuzumab to discover associations with trastuzumab benefit. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN An antibody panel for detection of 18 targets (pan-cytokeratin, HER2 ICD, HER2 ECD, CD8, vimentin, cytokeratin 7, β-catenin, HER3, MET, EGFR, ERK 1-2, MEK 1-2, PTEN, PI3K p110 α, Akt, mTOR, Ki67, and Histone H3) was used with a selection of trastuzumab-treated patients from the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group 10/05 trial (n = 180), and identified a case-control series. RESULTS Patients that recurred after adjuvant treatment with trastuzumab trended toward a decreased fraction of HER2 ECD pixels over threshold compared with cases without recurrence (P = 0.057). After exclusion of the lowest HER2 expressers, 5-year recurrence events were associated with reduced total extracellular domain (ECD)/intracellular domain (ICD) ratio intensity in tumor (P = 0.044). These observations are consistent with our previous work using quantitative immunofluorescence, but represent the proof on identical cell content. We also describe the association of the ECD of HER2 with CD8 T-cell infiltration on the same slide. CONCLUSIONS The proximity of CD8 cells as a function of the expression of the ECD of HER2 provides further evidence for the role of the immune system in the mechanism of action of trastuzumab.
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- Daniel E Carvajal-Hausdorf
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.,Clínica Alemana-Facultad de Medicina U. del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
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- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
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- Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, Ontario, Canada
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- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, "Papageorgiou" Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
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Kourea HP, Koletsa T, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Batistatou A, Pentheroudakis G, Arapantoni-Dadioti P, Zagouri F, Bobos M, Sotiropoulou M, Papoudou-Bai A, Chrisafi S, Efstratiou I, Aravantinos G, Nicolaou I, Gogas H, Visvikis A, Christodoulou C, Petraki C, Koutras A, Psyrri A, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Abstract P4-08-13: Prognostic significance of CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in patients with early breast cancer (EBC) treated with dose-dense sequential adjuvant chemotherapy (dds-CT). An observational study (ACTRN12616001043426). Cancer Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs18-p4-08-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background - aim: Information on the prognostic role of cytotoxic CD8+ T cells in the era of modern adjuvant CT is limited. The primary objective of the present report is to assess the prognostic impact of CD8+ cells in patients with intermediate or high-risk EBC (T1-3N1-2M0) treated with dds-CT. Secondary endpoints are safety, disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS).
Patients and Methods: Patients (N=1,000) were treated with 4 cycles of Epirubicin, 75mg/m2, and Cyclophophamide, 600mg/m2 every 2 weeks followed by 4 cycles of Docetaxel (D), 100mg/m2 every 3 weeks with G-CSF support in all cycles. Trastuzumab was initiated concurrently with D and continued for a total of 1 year. Hormonal and radiation therapy were given post CT, as indicated. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumors were available for 642 patients (64.2%) and were centrally assessed for immunohistochemical subtypes (IHC4; N=526), stromal TILs density by morphology (N=636), as well as stromal and intratumoral cytotoxic CD8+ T cell numbers (N=554). TILs and CD8+ were assessed as continuous variables for associations and as 10% increments for outcome.
Results: In total, 901/1,000 pts (90.1%) completed 8 cycles of CT. Severe (gradeIII-IV) toxicitiesincludedneutropenia (5.6%), leucopenia (3.6%), lymphopenia (2.1%), hand-footsyndrome (2.1%), and hepatotoxicity (1.8%). Febrileneutropenia occurred in 1.6% of the patients. The 5-year DFS and OS rates were 89.5% and 93.1%, respectively. Luminal A tumors were classified in 26.2%, Luminal B in 35.2%, luminal HER2 in 9.5%; HER2-enriched in 7.2%; and, triple-negative (TNBC) in 21.9% of informative patients. Among subtypes, stromal TILs density was higher in HER2-enriched and TNBC (p<0.001); intratumoral CD8+ values were higher in TNBC (p<0.001); and, stromal CD8+ were higher in HER2-enriched (p=0.034). In all patients, TILs density and intratumoral CD8+ cell numbers were not associated with DFS and OS, while increased stromal CD8+ were marginally associated with prolonged DFS (HR=0.98, 95%CI 0.96-1.00, p=0.066).Adjusted for histological grade, menopausal, ER/PgR and nodal status, higher stromal CD8+ were associated with prolonged DFS (HR=0.98, 95% CI 0.96-1.00, p=0.043). In TNBC, higher stromal TILs density conferred prolonged DFS (HR=0.97, 95%CI 0.94-0.99, p=0.029), which retained its prognostic significance in multivariate analysis (HR=0.97, 95% CI 0.94-1.00, p=0.049).
Conclusions: In this study, dds-CT was well tolerated and active in patients with EBC. We confirm the presence of morphologically assessed higher TILs density, and of higher cytotoxic CD8+ T cell numbers in hormone receptor negative EBC, as well as the favorable prognostic impact of higher stromal TILs density in TNBC. In comparison to stromal TILs density, higher stromal CD8+ may confer favorable prognosis irrespectively of EBC subtype. Stromal CD8+ seems to be a marker worth further standardizing for reporting on immune cell infiltrates in EBC.
Citation Format: Kourea HP, Koletsa T, Kotoula V, Koliou G-A, Batistatou A, Pentheroudakis G, Arapantoni-Dadioti P, Zagouri F, Bobos M, Sotiropoulou M, Papoudou-Bai A, Chrisafi S, Efstratiou I, Aravantinos G, Nicolaou I, Gogas H, Visvikis A, Christodoulou C, Petraki C, Koutras A, Psyrri A, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Prognostic significance of CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in patients with early breast cancer (EBC) treated with dose-dense sequential adjuvant chemotherapy (dds-CT). An observational study (ACTRN12616001043426) [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2018 Dec 4-8; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P4-08-13.
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- HP Kourea
- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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Economopoulou P, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Papadopoulou K, Christodoulou C, Pentheroudakis G, Koutras A, Bafaloukos D, Papakostas P, Pectasides D, Kotsakis A, Razis E, Samantas E, Kalogeras KT, Economopoulos T, Fountzilas G. Abstract P2-08-20: Prognostic impact of SRC, CDKN1B and JAK2 expression in metastatic breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab. Cancer Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs18-p2-08-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background-aim: SRC, CDKN1B and JAK2 play a crucial role in the coordination and facilitation of cell-signaling pathways controlling a wide range of cellular functions. In the present study, we investigated the prognostic significance and clinical utlity of these biomarkers in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients treated with trastuzumab (T). Methods: We assessed SRC, CDKN1B and JAK2 mRNA expression with qRT-PCR (Taqman-MGB assays) on 197 paraffin tumors. PIK3CA mutation status was previously assessed. Relapsed (RMBC) and de novo MBC (dnMBC) patients had received T for metastatic disease only. Tumors were centrally re-assessed for HER2 status. Results: Only 133/197 patients (67.5%) were found to be truly HER2(+). CDKN1B mRNA expression strongly correlated with SRC (rho = 0.71) and JAK2 (rho = 0.54); high CDKN1B was more frequent in RMBC compared to dnMBC (p = 0.001) and in PIK3CA wild-type tumors (p = 0.005). In HER2(+) patients, low CDKN1B conferred higher risk for progression (HR 1.58, 95% CI 1.08-2.32, p = 0.018). In HER2(-) patients, low SRC was associated with longer survival (HR 0.56, 95% CI 0.32-0.99, p = 0.045) and, as a trend, with increased progression-free survival (PFS) (p = 0.067). For PFS, in RMBC, we observed trends for unfavorable low CDKN1B (p = 0.068) and JAK2 (p = 0.086); similarly, in dnMBC for unfavorable low CDKN1B (p = 0.072). Low SRC showed a trend for better survival in RMBC (p = 0.087). Upon multivariable analyses, only PIK3CA mutations strongly predicted for unfavorable PFS in HER2(+) patients (HR 3.37, 95% CI 1.98-5.73, p < 0.001). Low CDKN1B and JAK2 mRNA expression remained unfavorable factors for PFS in dnMBC and RMBC patients (HR 2.36, 95% CI 1.01-5.48, p = 0.046 and HR 1.76, 95% CI 1.01-3.06, p = 0.047, respectively). Conclusions: Low CDKN1B and JAK2 mRNA expression were unfavorable prognosticators in a cohort of T-treated MBC patients previously unexposed to this agent, with distinct impact in de novo and RMBC. Our results highlight biological and clinical differences between de novo and RMBC and suggest that CDKN1B and JAK2, if validated, may serve as prognostic factors potentially implicated in T-resistance, which seems to be associated with distinct pathways in the two MBC settings.
Citation Format: Economopoulou P, Kotoula V, Koliou G-A, Papadopoulou K, Christodoulou C, Pentheroudakis G, Koutras A, Bafaloukos D, Papakostas P, Pectasides D, Kotsakis A, Razis E, Samantas E, Kalogeras KT, Economopoulos T, Fountzilas G. Prognostic impact of SRC, CDKN1B and JAK2 expression in metastatic breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2018 Dec 4-8; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P2-08-20.
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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Christodoulou C, Oikonomopoulos G, Koliou GA, Kostopoulos I, Kotoula V, Bobos M, Pentheroudakis G, Lazaridis G, Skondra M, Chrisafi S, Koutras A, Bafaloukos D, Razis E, Papadopoulou K, Papakostas P, Kalofonos HP, Pectasides D, Skarlos P, Kalogeras KT, Fountzilas G. Evaluation of the Insulin-like Growth Factor Receptor Pathway in Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer Treated with Trastuzumab. Cancer Genomics Proteomics 2018; 15:461-471. [PMID: 30343280 DOI: 10.21873/cgp.20105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Revised: 08/29/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Trastuzumab is a monoclonal antibody against HER2-positive breast cancer. Despite improving the natural history of the disease, there is a number of patients who are resistant to it, whereas all patients will eventually develop resistance and disease will progress. Inconsistent preclinical data show that the IGF-R pathway may contribute to either de novo or acquired resistance to trastuzumab. MATERIALS AND METHODS In total, 227 trastuzumab-treated metastatic breast cancer patients were evaluated for IGF-1, IGF-1R, GLP-1R, Akt1, Akt2 Akt3 mRNA expression, and IGF-1Rα, IGF-1Rβ, IGF-2R protein expression. RESULTS Only 139 patients were truly HER2-positive by central assessment. Among HER2-positive patients, high Akt2 and GLP-1R mRNA expression showed a trend towards higher and lower risk of progression, respectively (HR=1.83, 95%CI=0.90-3.72, p=0.094 and HR=0.62, 95%CI=0.36-1.06, p=0.079), while high Akt1 and GLP-1R mRNA expression presented a trend towards unfavorable survival (HR=1.67, 95%CI=0.93-2.99, p=0.086 and HR=1.67, 95%CI=0.94-2.96, p=0.080). Among HER2-negative patients, high GLP-1R mRNA expression and negative stromal IGF-1Rβ protein expression showed a trend towards worse survival (HR=2.31, 95%CI=0.87-6.13, p=0.094 and HR=2.03, 95%CI=0.94-4.35, p=0.071, respectively). In the multivariate analyses, HER2-positive patients with high Akt1 and GLP-1R mRNA expression had a worse survival (HR=1.86, 95%CI=1.01-3.43, p=0.045 and HR=1.83, 95%CI=0.99-3.41, p=0.055, respectively). CONCLUSION This study revealed a crosstalk between the IGF-R pathway and HER2. There was evidence that high Akt1 and GLP-1R mRNA expression might affect survival among HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab.
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Translational Research Section, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Sotiriou S, Koletsa T, Tzorakoleftheraki SE, Kotoula V, Mantalovas S, Kostopoulos I. Nodal mesenteric marginal zone lymphoma with amyloid deposits, calcification, and ossification. J Hematop 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s12308-018-0337-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Koutras A, Lazaridis G, Koliou GA, Kouvatseas G, Christodoulou C, Pectasides D, Kotoula V, Batistatou A, Bobos M, Tsolaki E, Papadopoulou K, Pentheroudakis G, Papakostas P, Pervana S, Petraki K, Chrisafi S, Razis E, Psyrri A, Bafaloukos D, Kalogeras KT, Kalofonos HP, Fountzilas G. Evaluation of the prognostic value of all four HER family receptors in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with trastuzumab: A Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) study. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0207707. [PMID: 30521571 PMCID: PMC6283464 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 11/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
In the current study, we performed a complete analysis, with four different methods, of all four HER family receptors, in a series of patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with trastuzumab-based regimens and evaluated their prognostic value. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor tissue samples were collected from 227 patients, considered to be HER2-positive when assessed at the local laboratories. We evaluated gene amplification, copy number variations (CNVs), mRNA and protein expression of all four HER family members. In addition, our analysis included the evaluation of several other factors by immunohistochemistry (IHC), such as pHER2Tyr1221/1222, pHER2Tyr877 and PTEN. Central review of HER2 status by IHC and fluorescence in situ hybridization revealed that of the 227 patients, only 139 (61.2%) were truly HER2-positive. Regarding the 191 patients treated with trastuzumab as first-line therapy, median time to progression (TTP) was 15.3 and 10.4 months for HER2-positive and HER2-negative participants, respectively, whereas median survival was 50.4 and 38.1 months, respectively. In HER2-positive patients, high HER3 mRNA expression was of favorable prognostic significance for TTP and survival (HR = 0.43, 95% CI 0.21–0.88, Wald’s p = 0.022 and HR = 0.43, 95% CI 0.21–0.88, p = 0.021, respectively), while EGFR copy gain and EGFR protein expression were associated with higher risk for disease progression in HER2-negative patients (HR = 3.53, 95% CI 1.19–10.50, p = 0.023 and HR = 3.37, 95% CI 1.12–10.17, p = 0.031, respectively). Positive HER3 protein expression was a favorable factor for TTP in HER2-negative patients (HR = 0.43, 95% CI 0.22–0.84, p = 0.014). In the multivariate analysis, only EGFR copy gain retained its prognostic significance for TTP in the HER2-negative population (HR = 3.96, 95% CI 1.29–12.16, p = 0.016), while high HER3 mRNA expression retained its favorable prognostic significance for TTP in the HER2-positive subgroup (HR = 0.47, 95% CI 0.23–0.99, p = 0.048). The present study suggests that EGFR copy gain represents a negative prognostic factor for TTP in HER2-negative patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with trastuzumab. In addition, high HER3 mRNA expression appears to be of favorable prognostic significance for TTP in HER2-positive patients. Given the small number of patients included in the current analysis and the retrospective nature of the study, our findings should be validated in larger cohorts.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological/therapeutic use
- Breast Neoplasms/drug therapy
- Breast Neoplasms/metabolism
- Breast Neoplasms/pathology
- Class I Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/genetics
- DNA Copy Number Variations
- ErbB Receptors/genetics
- ErbB Receptors/metabolism
- Female
- Gene Amplification
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Metastasis/drug therapy
- Neoplasm Metastasis/genetics
- PTEN Phosphohydrolase/genetics
- PTEN Phosphohydrolase/metabolism
- Prognosis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- RNA, Neoplasm/metabolism
- Receptor, ErbB-2/genetics
- Receptor, ErbB-2/metabolism
- Receptor, ErbB-3/genetics
- Receptor, ErbB-3/metabolism
- Receptor, ErbB-4/genetics
- Receptor, ErbB-4/metabolism
- Retrospective Studies
- Trastuzumab/therapeutic use
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Affiliation(s)
- Angelos Koutras
- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Translational Research Section, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Athens, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Polychronidou G, Kotoula V, Manousou K, Kostopoulos I, Karayannopoulou G, Vrettou E, Bobos M, Raptou G, Efstratiou I, Dionysopoulos D, Chatzopoulos K, Lakis S, Chrisafi S, Tsolakidis D, Papanikolaou A, Dombros N, Fountzilas G. Mismatch repair deficiency and aberrations in the Notch and Hedgehog pathways are of prognostic value in patients with endometrial cancer. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0208221. [PMID: 30521558 PMCID: PMC6283658 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of the Hedgehog (Gli, Patched-1, Shh, Smo) and Notch (Jag1, Notch2, Notch3) pathway members, in comparison to a panel of proteins (ER, PgR, HER2/neu, Ki67, p53, p16, PTEN and MMR) previously suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of endometrial cancer, in association with clinical outcome and standard clinicopathological characteristics. A total of 204 patients with histological diagnosis of endometrial cancer treated from 2004 to 2013 were included. The evaluation of protein expression was assessed by immunohistochemistry. Univariate analysis showed that higher Ki67 labeling, expression of PTEN, p16, Notch2 and Notch3 proteins, as well as MMR proficiency were associated with increased relapse and mortality rate. Additionally, Patched-1 protein expression was associated with worse DFS, while p53 overexpression was associated with worse OS. In multivariate analyses, patients with MMR proficient tumors had more than double risk for death than patients with MMR deficient (MMRd) tumors (adjusted HR = 2.19, 95% CI 1.05–4.58, p = 0.036). Jag1 positivity conferred reduced mortality risk (HR = 0.48, 95% CI 0.23–0.97, p = 0.042). However, as shown by hierarchical clustering, patients fared better when their tumors expressed high Jag1 protein in the absence of Notch2 and Notch3, while they fared worse when all three proteins were highly expressed. Patched-1 positivity conferred higher risk for relapse (HR = 2.04, 95% CI 1.05–3.96, p = 0.036). Aberrant expression of key components of the Notch and Hedgehog signaling pathways, as well as MMRd may serve as independent prognostic factors for recurrence and survival in patients with endometrial cancer.
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- Genovefa Polychronidou
- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
- * E-mail: (GP); (VK)
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- * E-mail: (GP); (VK)
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Data Office, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
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- First Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Pentheroudakis G, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Karavasilis V, Samantas E, Aravantinos G, Kalogeropoulou L, Souglakos I, Kentepozidis N, Koumakis G, Sgouros J, Zarkavelis G, Efstratiou I, Laschos K, Petraki C, Tikas I, Poulios C, Voutsina A, Goudopoulou A, Bafaloukos D, Vrettou E, Kalogera-Fountzila A, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. AMALTHEA: Prospective, Single-Arm Study of the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) Evaluating Efficacy and Safety of First-Line FOLFIRI + Aflibercept for 6 Months Followed by Aflibercept Maintenance in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Clin Colorectal Cancer 2018; 17:e631-e637. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clcc.2018.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Revised: 05/31/2018] [Accepted: 06/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Romanidou O, Kotoula V, Fountzilas G. Bridging Cancer Biology with the Clinic: Comprehending and Exploiting IDH Gene Mutations in Gliomas. Cancer Genomics Proteomics 2018; 15:421-436. [PMID: 30194083 DOI: 10.21873/cgp.20101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 07/23/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Isocitrate dehydrogenases 1 and 2 (IDH1/2) are enzymes that play a major role in the Krebs cycle. Mutations in these enzymes are found in the majority of lower gliomas and secondary glioblastomas, but also in myeloid malignancies and other cancers. IDH1 and IDH2 mutations are restricted to specific arginine residues in the active site of the enzymes and are gain-of-function, i.e. they confer a neomorphic enzyme activity resulting in the accumulation of D-2-hydroxyglutarate (2-HG). 2-HG is an oncometabolite causing profound metabolic dysregulation which, among others, results in methylator phenotypes and in defects in homologous recombination repair. In this review, we summarize current knowledge regarding the function of normal and mutated IDH, explain the possible mechanisms through which these mutations might drive malignant transformation of progenitor cells in the central nervous system, and provide a comprehensive review of potential treatment strategies for IDH-mutated malignancies, focusing on gliomas.
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- Ourania Romanidou
- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Kotoula V, Lakis S, Tikas I, Giannoulatou E, Lazaridis G, Papadopoulou K, Manoussou K, Efstratiou I, Papanikolaou A, Fostira F, Vlachos I, Tarlatzis B, Fountzilas G. Pathogenic BRCA1 mutations may be necessary but not sufficient for tissue genomic heterogeneity: Deep sequencing data from ovarian cancer patients. Gynecol Oncol 2018; 152:375-386. [PMID: 30446274 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2018.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2018] [Revised: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 11/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Tissue genomic heterogeneity (t-HET) in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (OVCA) is related to tissue plasticity, i.e., flexibility to adapt to adverse molecular environments. Here, we interrogated the presence and clinical relevance of OVCA t-HET. METHODS We applied high-depth (>2000×) sequencing on 297 paraffin tissue samples (fallopian tubes, ovaries, intra-abdominal metastases) from 71 treatment-naïve patients who subsequently received first-line platinum-based chemotherapy. Based on tissue mutation patterns, we distinguished tissue genotypes into: no mutation (33/297 samples; 11.1%), stable (173; 58.2%) and unstable (91; 30.7%). We profiled genotypes per patient and assessed t-HET in 69 patients. Predicted pathogenic mutations refer to germline and/or tissues. RESULTS Among all 71 patients, 46 (64.8%) had pathogenic BRCA1 mutations and 15 (21.7%) had BRCA1/2 disruption (i.e., pathogenic mutations with position-LOH). We classified 29 patients with t-HET (42%), all with pathogenic BRCA1; t-HET was observed in 64% with such mutations (p < 0.001). As opposed to non-t-HET, matched tissues in t-HET shared pathogenic BRCA1 (p < 0.001) but not BRCA2 and TP53. Germline BRCA1 mutations in tissues exhibited position-LOH; heterozygous status; or, partial loss of the inherited allele accompanied by additional clonal mutations. Patients with t-HET had worse outcome (log-rank p = 0.048 [progression-free]; p = 0.037 [overall survival]), including 12/15 patients with disrupted BRCA1/2 and 3 BRCA1 carriers with partial germline loss in tissues. CONCLUSIONS Pathogenic BRCA1 mutations appear necessary but may not be sufficient for the establishment of t-HET. t-HET may be associated with worse outcome, including in patients with disrupted BRCA1/2, which is usually considered as a favourable marker. OVCA t-HET may need to be addressed for treatment decisions.
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- Vassiliki Kotoula
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia; University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Athens, Greece.
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- First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Center for Scientific Research NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Center for Scientific Research NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece.
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- First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Kotoula V, Tsakiri K, Koliou GA, Lazaridis G, Papadopoulou K, Giannoulatou E, Tikas I, Christodoulou C, Chatzopoulos K, Bobos M, Pentheroudakis G, Tsolaki E, Batistatou A, Kotsakis A, Koutras A, Linardou H, Razis E, Res E, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Relapsed and De Novo Metastatic HER2-positive Breast Cancer Treated With Trastuzumab: Tumor Genotypes and Clinical Measures Associated With Patient Outcome. Clin Breast Cancer 2018; 19:113-125.e4. [PMID: 30545790 DOI: 10.1016/j.clbc.2018.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Revised: 08/22/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND We examined tumor genotype characteristics of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive relapsed (R-) and de novo (dn-) metastatic breast cancer (MBC) in trastuzumab-treated patients who were previously not exposed to this agent. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed genotypes obtained upon deep sequencing from 113 HER2-positive primary tumors from 69 patients with R-MBC and 44 patients with dn-MBC. RESULTS Mutations were observed in 90 (79.6%) tumors, 56 R-MBC and 34 dn-MBC (median number per tumor: 2; mean: 11.2; range: 0-150). The top mutated gene was TP53 (63.7%) followed by PIK3CA (24.8%) and others that were mostly co-mutated with TP53 (eg, 22 of 28 PIK3CA mutated tumors were co-mutated in TP53, 17 of these were R-MBC [P = .041]). dn-MBC had higher CEN17 average copies (P = .048). Tumor mutational burden inversely correlated with average HER2 copies (rho -0.32; P < .001). In all patients, PIK3CA mutations and higher proliferation rate were independent unfavorable prognosticators. In R-MBC, longer disease-free interval between initial diagnosis and relapse conferred lower risk for time-to-progression (P < .001) and death (P = .009); PIK3CA mutations conferred higher risk for death (P = .035). In dn-MBC, surgical removal of the primary tumor before any other therapy was favorable for time-to-progression (P = .002); higher tumor mutational burden was unfavorable for survival (P = .026). CONCLUSIONS Except for the overall unfavorable prognostic effect of PIK3CA mutations in trastuzumab-treated MBC, our exploratory findings indicate that the outcome of patients with R-MBC is related to patient benefit from the preceding adjuvant chemotherapy and provide initial evidence that tumor mutational burden may be related to prognosis in dn-MBC, which is of potential clinical relevance and merits further investigation.
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- Vassiliki Kotoula
- Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece; Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia; The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece
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- University Hospital of Heraklion, University of Crete, School of Medicine, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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- First Department of Medical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Fountzilas E, Kotoula V, Tikas I, Manousou K, Papadopoulou K, Poulios C, Karavasilis V, Efstratiou I, Pectasides D, Papaparaskeva K, Varthalitis I, Christodoulou C, Papatsibas G, Chrisafi S, Glantzounis GK, Psyrri A, Aravantinos G, Koliou GA, Koukoulis GK, Pentheroudakis GE, Fountzilas G. Prognostic significance of tumor genotypes and CD8+ infiltrates in stage I-III colorectal cancer. Oncotarget 2018; 9:35623-35638. [PMID: 30479693 PMCID: PMC6235022 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.26256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background We explored the clinical significance of tumor genotypes and immunophenotypes in non-metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). Methods In primary tumors (paraffin blocks) from 412 CRC patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy, we examined pathogenic mutations (panel NGS; 347 informative); mismatch repair (MMR) immunophenotype (360 informative); and CD8+ lymphocyte density (high – low; 412 informative). The primary outcome measure was disease-free survival (DFS). Results We evaluated 1713 pathogenic mutations (median: 3 per tumor; range 0-49); 118/412 (28.6%) tumors exhibited high CD8+ density; and, 40/360 (11.1%) were MMR-deficient. Compared to MMR-proficient, MMR-deficient tumors exhibited higher CD8+ density (chi-square, p<0.001) and higher pathogenic mutation numbers (p=0.003). High CD8+ density was an independent favorable prognosticator (HR=0.49, 95%CI 0.29-0.84, Wald's p=0.010). Pathogenic BRCA1 and ARID1A mutations were inversely associated with each other (p<0.001), were not associated with MMR-deficiency or CD8+ density, but both independently predicted for unfavorable DFS (HR=1.98, 95%CI 1.12-3.48, p=0.018 and HR=1.99, 95%CI 1.11-3.54, p=0.020, respectively). Conclusion In non-metastatic CRC, high CD8+ lymphocyte density confers a favorable prognosis and may be developed as a single marker in routine diagnostics. The unfavorable prognostic effect of pathogenic BRCA1 and ARID1A mutations is a novel observation that, if further validated, may improve treatment selection.
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- Elena Fountzilas
- Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Konstantopouleio Agia Olga General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Department, University General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Ioannina and School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece
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- Division of Oncology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Second Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Linardou H, Kotoula V, Kouvatseas G, Karavasilis V, Mountzios G, Samantas E, Kalogera-Fountzila A, Televantou D, Papadopoulou K, Mavropoulou X, Daskalaki E, Zaramboukas T, Efstratiou I, Lambaki S, Rallis G, Res E, Syrigos K, Kosmidis P, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. P3.01-61 EGFR and KRAS Mutational Status and Significance in Greek Patients with Advanced Non Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2018.08.1621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Fountzila E, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Giannoulatou E, Gogas H, Papadimitriou C, Tikas I, Papadopoulou K, Zagouri F, Christodoulou C, Koutras A, Razis E, Papakostas P, Samantas E, Aravantinos G, Psyrri A, Pectasides D, Futreal A, Tsimberidou AM, Fountzilas G. Actionable mutations and overall survival in 3,211 patients with cancer: The Hellenic cooperative oncology group precision medicine initiative. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy303.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Pentheroudakis G, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Papadopoulou K, Samantas E, Makatsoris T, Karavasilis V, Mauri D, Efstratiou I, Bafaloukos D, Papakostas P, Psyrri A, Papatsibas G, Zarkavelis G, Goussia A, Bompolaki I, Oikonomopoulos G, Christopoulou A, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Predictive significance of tumour angiogenic and anti-angiogenic VEGF-A splice variants in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy303.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Fountzila E, Kotoula V, Pentherdoudakis G, Manousou K, Vrettou E, Poulios C, Papadimitriou C, Raptou G, Pectasides E, Polychronidou G, Karayannopoulou G, Chrisafi S, Papakostas P, Makatsoris T, Psyrri A, Samantas E, Bobos M, Christodoulou C, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Prognostic implications of mismatch repair deficiency in patients with early-stage colorectal and endometrial cancer. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy303.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Mountzios G, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Papadopoulou K, Lazaridis G, Christodoulou C, Pentheroudakis G, Skondra M, Koutras A, Linardou H, Razis E, Papakostas P, Chrisafi S, Aravantinos G, Nicolaou I, Goussia A, Kalogeras K, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Cyclin D1 differential activation and its prognostic impact among advanced breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy269.142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Fountzilas E, Levva S, Mountzios G, Polychronidou G, Maniadakis N, Kotoula V, Fountzilas G. Treating EGFR-Mutated Oncogene-Addicted Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer in the Era of Economic Crisis in Greece: Challenges and Opportunities. J Glob Oncol 2018; 4:1-12. [PMID: 30260753 PMCID: PMC6223495 DOI: 10.1200/jgo.18.00115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Because of the profound financial crisis that commenced in Greece in 2010, severe cuts in health care spending and other restriction measures led to significant delays in the reimbursement of novel antineoplastic agents. In 2011, the Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology initiated a program of early access to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of patients with advanced, EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We evaluated treatment patterns and clinical outcomes in patients with EGFR-mutant or wild-type disease treated at a large center in Greece throughout the period of financial crisis. PATIENTS AND METHODS From 2011 through 2015, 252 patients with newly diagnosed advanced NSCLC were treated at the Department of Medical Oncology of the Papageorgiou Hospital, a tertiary cancer center in northern Greece. We retrospectively reviewed patient medical records to obtain clinicopathologic characteristics, EGFR mutation status, and follow-up data. The primary end point was time to treatment failure. RESULTS Of the 198 evaluable patients, 25 (12%) had EGFR mutations. All patients with EGFR mutations except one received treatment with an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Median times to treatment failure for patients with EGFR-mutant and wild-type disease were 15.8 and 7.1 months, respectively (hazard ratio, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.35 to 0.95; P = .031). There was no difference in overall survival between the two groups ( P = .293). No deviation from treatment guidelines or discontinuation of treatment regimens occurred because of logistic reasons or drug shortages. CONCLUSION Despite restrictions in the reimbursement policy and accompanying controls in the use of high-cost medicines, the national program enabled treatment of patients with EGFR-mutant NSCLC according to established guidelines. Therefore, the clinical outcomes of such patients treated in Greece during the economic crisis were in accordance with international standards.
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- Elena Fountzilas
- Elena Fountzilas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, TX; Sofia Levva and Genovefa Polychronidou, Papageorgiou Hospital; Sofia Levva, Genovefa Polychronidou, and Vassiliki Kotoula, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Vassiliki Kotoula and George Fountzilas, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research; George Fountzilas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Giannis Mountzios, Henry Dunant Hospital Center; and Nikos Maniadakis, National School οf Public Health, Athens, Greece
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- Elena Fountzilas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, TX; Sofia Levva and Genovefa Polychronidou, Papageorgiou Hospital; Sofia Levva, Genovefa Polychronidou, and Vassiliki Kotoula, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Vassiliki Kotoula and George Fountzilas, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research; George Fountzilas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Giannis Mountzios, Henry Dunant Hospital Center; and Nikos Maniadakis, National School οf Public Health, Athens, Greece
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- Elena Fountzilas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, TX; Sofia Levva and Genovefa Polychronidou, Papageorgiou Hospital; Sofia Levva, Genovefa Polychronidou, and Vassiliki Kotoula, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Vassiliki Kotoula and George Fountzilas, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research; George Fountzilas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Giannis Mountzios, Henry Dunant Hospital Center; and Nikos Maniadakis, National School οf Public Health, Athens, Greece
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- Elena Fountzilas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, TX; Sofia Levva and Genovefa Polychronidou, Papageorgiou Hospital; Sofia Levva, Genovefa Polychronidou, and Vassiliki Kotoula, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Vassiliki Kotoula and George Fountzilas, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research; George Fountzilas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Giannis Mountzios, Henry Dunant Hospital Center; and Nikos Maniadakis, National School οf Public Health, Athens, Greece
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- Elena Fountzilas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, TX; Sofia Levva and Genovefa Polychronidou, Papageorgiou Hospital; Sofia Levva, Genovefa Polychronidou, and Vassiliki Kotoula, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Vassiliki Kotoula and George Fountzilas, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research; George Fountzilas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Giannis Mountzios, Henry Dunant Hospital Center; and Nikos Maniadakis, National School οf Public Health, Athens, Greece
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- Elena Fountzilas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, TX; Sofia Levva and Genovefa Polychronidou, Papageorgiou Hospital; Sofia Levva, Genovefa Polychronidou, and Vassiliki Kotoula, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Vassiliki Kotoula and George Fountzilas, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research; George Fountzilas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Giannis Mountzios, Henry Dunant Hospital Center; and Nikos Maniadakis, National School οf Public Health, Athens, Greece
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- Elena Fountzilas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, TX; Sofia Levva and Genovefa Polychronidou, Papageorgiou Hospital; Sofia Levva, Genovefa Polychronidou, and Vassiliki Kotoula, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Vassiliki Kotoula and George Fountzilas, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research; George Fountzilas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Giannis Mountzios, Henry Dunant Hospital Center; and Nikos Maniadakis, National School οf Public Health, Athens, Greece
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Kotoula V, Demiri E, Fostira F, Vrettou E, Papadopoulou K, Tikas I, Papazisis K, Zaramboukas T, Asimaki-Vlachopoulou A, Miliaras S, Fountzilas E, Ananiadis A, Chrisafi S, Poulios C, Natsiopoulos I, Tsiftsoglou A, Fountzilas G. Abstract 1359: Somatic involution of pathogenic BRCA1 germline mutations. Cancer Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2018-1359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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There is currently a wealth of data on the tumor genomic contexture from BRCA1/2 carriers, particularly breast and ovarian carcinomas. By contrast, little attention has as yet been paid to the genomic status of cancer-related normal tissues from these individuals. Here, we investigated the status of pathogenic BRCA1 germline mutations (GM) in breast (B) and gynecologic (GYN) tissues.
Methods: We examined 121 DNA samples (48 B; 36 GYN; 37 tumors) from an equal number of paraffin blocks obtained upon prophylactic or debulking surgery from 44 BRCA1/2 carriers (mean age 38 yrs, range 24-62; 43 BRCA1 carriers). Six women had never had cancer manifestation (CM). At the time of surgery, 32 were cancer-free but had received neo- or adjuvant chemotherapy, and 6 had concurrent cancer without prior treatment. Following multimethod DNA quality control, mutation validation and sample identity match to exclude false negatives, we interrogated GM presence in tissues in comparison to clinicopathologic data and tumor genotypes (60-gene panel; mean read depth over 800).
Results: In 19 samples from 13 BRCA1 carriers, including 13 normal B/GYN and 6 tumors, the germline mutation was present at frequencies lower than 5% (observed with the integrated genome viewer) up to 12%, or it was undetectable with Sanger sequencing and multiplex PCR. This condition, termed GM-loss, was present in 13 GYN, 12 of which in the histologically normal tube, and in only 3 B with fibrocystic disease (p=0.0210). It was also present in one ovarian thecoma but it was absent in usual or atypical hyperplasia in B. GM-loss was observed in 9/55 normal tissues from breast cancer and in 4/6 normal tissues from ovarian cancer patients, while it was absent in the normal tissues from women without CM (p=0.0002). GM-loss mostly affected the BRCA1 BRCT functional domain (p<0.0001) and concerned large deletions (10/17 samples), small indels (5/32; 15.6%) and less so single-nucleotide substitutions (4/66; 6.0%; p<0.0001). Normal tissue GM-loss was rather localized, e.g., in 10 patients with multiple samples it was present in only one B or fallopian tube. It was, however, related to the status of concurrent ovarian tumors in 3/6 cases. In the normal tube of these patients, next to the low-frequency GM a somatic pathogenic BRCA1 mutation was present at 25-41% allelic frequency; the same was observed in one breast tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Three of the replaced GMs were indels, two corresponded to the well-known BRCA1 p.Q1777fs, and all novel mutations were missense.
Conclusions: We observed BRCA1 GM-loss in normal tissues, breast and mostly fallopian tube, in about 30% of the carriers in the present cohort, all with previous or concurrent cancer. The phenomenon seems analogous to the GM reversion described in tumors but, as shown, it may also occur in the absence of prior treatment. Its origin and impact on cancer dynamics and therapeutic approaches seem worth further pursuing with functional studies.
Citation Format: Vassiliki Kotoula, Efterpi Demiri, Florentia Fostira, Eleni Vrettou, Kyriaki Papadopoulou, Ioannis Tikas, Konstantinos Papazisis, Thomas Zaramboukas, Asimina Asimaki-Vlachopoulou, Spyridon Miliaras, Elena Fountzilas, Ananias Ananiadis, Sofia Chrisafi, Christos Poulios, Ioannis Natsiopoulos, Aris Tsiftsoglou, George Fountzilas. Somatic involution of pathogenic BRCA1 germline mutations [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 1359.
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Papaxoinis G, Kotoula V, Giannoulatou E, Koliou GA, Karavasilis V, Lakis S, Koureas A, Bobos M, Chalaralambous E, Daskalaki E, Chatzopoulos K, Tsironis G, Pazarli E, Chrisafi S, Samantas E, Kaklamanos IG, Varthalitis I, Konstantara A, Syrigos KN, Pentheroudakis G, Pectasides D, Fountzilas G. Phase II study of panitumumab combined with capecitabine and oxaliplatin as first-line treatment in metastatic colorectal cancer patients: clinical results including extended tumor genotyping. Med Oncol 2018; 35:101. [PMID: 29855806 DOI: 10.1007/s12032-018-1160-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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This clinical trial assessed the efficacy and toxicity of panitumumab combined with oxaliplatin and capecitabine as first-line treatment in KRAS exon 2 wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients. Patients with exon 2 KRAS wild-type mCRC received panitumumab 9 mg/Kg, oxaliplatin 130 mg/m2, and capecitabine 2000 mg/m2 repeated every 3 weeks. The primary endpoint was objective response rate (ORR, minimum 42 responses). We retrospectively assessed mutations in genes implicated in CRC with massively parallel sequencing; ERBB2 and EGFR amplification with fluorescence in situ hybridization, and tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte density. Among 78 patients enrolled, 45 (57.7%) completed 6 cycles. Most common grade 3-4 toxicities were skin rash (19.2%), diarrhea (18%), and neuropathy (6.4%). Among 5 (6.4%) potentially treatment-related deaths, 2 (2.6%) were characterized toxic. Objective response occurred in 43 (55.1%) of the patients (complete 6.4% and partial response 48.7%; stable 17.9% and progressive disease 7.7%), while 3.8% were non-evaluable and 15% discontinued their treatment early. Additional mutations in KRAS/NRAS/BRAF were found in 11/62 assessable (18%) tumors. After 51 months median follow-up, median progression-free (PFS) was 8.1 and overall survival 20.2 months, independently of KRAS/NRAS/BRAF or PI3K-pathway mutation status. Patients with TP53 mutations (n = 34; 55%), as well as those with left colon primary tumors (n = 66; 85%), had significantly better PFS, also confirmed in multivariate analysis. Although the clinical trial met its primary endpoint, according to the current standards, the efficacy and tolerability of the drug combination are considered insufficient. Extended genotyping yielded interesting results regarding the significance of TP53 mutations.ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01215539, Registration date: Sep 29, 2010.
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- George Papaxoinis
- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, 11527, Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.,The University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Radiology, Aretaieio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Surgery, School of Health Sciences, General Oncologic Hospital of Kifisia, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Unit GPP, Sotiria General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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- Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, 11527, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Fountzilas E, Kotoula V, Tikas IS, Manousou K, Papadopoulou K, Poulios C, Karavasilis V, Efstratiou I, Pectasides DG, Papaparaskeva K, Varthalitis II, Christodoulou C, Papatsibas G, Chrisafi S, Glantzounis GK, Psyrri A, Aravantinos G, Koukoulis GK, Pentheroudakis GE, Fountzilas G. Clinical relevance of primary tumor site and respective molecular characteristics in patients with early-stage colorectal cancer. J Clin Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2018.36.15_suppl.e15606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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Razis E, Kotoula V, Koliou GA, Vrettou E, Giannoulatou E, Tikas IS, Labropoulos SV, Papadopoulou K, Rigakos G, Papaemmanoyil S, Romanidou O, Nomikos P, Iliadis G, Selviaridis P, Polyzoidis K, Fountzilas G. Evaluation of the significance of TERT mutations in the presence of NF1 mutations in high grade glioma. J Clin Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2018.36.15_suppl.e14058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG), Athens, Greece
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- Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst; The University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
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Zardavas D, Te Marvelde L, Milne RL, Fumagalli D, Fountzilas G, Kotoula V, Razis E, Papaxoinis G, Joensuu H, Moynahan ME, Hennessy BT, Bieche I, Saal LH, Stal O, Iacopetta B, Jensen JD, O'Toole S, Lopez-Knowles E, Barbaraeschi M, Noguchi S, Azim HA, Lerma E, Bachelot T, Wang Q, Perez-Tenorio G, Can de Velde CJH, Rea DW, Sabine V, Bartlett JMS, Sotiriou C, Michiels S, Loi S. Tumor PIK3CA Genotype and Prognosis in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Patient Data. J Clin Oncol 2018; 36:981-990. [PMID: 29470143 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.74.8301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Purpose Phosphatidylinositol-4, 5-bisphosphate 3-kinase catalytic subunit alpha ( PIK3CA) mutations are frequently observed in primary breast cancer. We evaluated their prognostic relevance by performing a pooled analysis of individual patient data. Patients and Methods Associations between PIK3CA status and clinicopathologic characteristics were tested by applying Cox regression models adjusted for age, tumor size, nodes, grade, estrogen receptor (ER) status, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status, treatment, and study. Invasive disease-free survival (IDFS) was the primary end point; distant disease-free survival (DDFS) and overall survival (OS) were also assessed, overall and by breast cancer subtypes. Results Data from 10,319 patients from 19 studies were included (median OS follow-up, 6.9 years); 1,787 patients (17%) received chemotherapy, 4,036 (39%) received endocrine monotherapy, 3,583 (35%) received both, and 913 (9%) received none or their treatment was unknown. PIK3CA mutations occurred in 32% of patients, with significant associations with ER positivity, increasing age, lower grade, and smaller size (all P < .001). Prevalence of PIK3CA mutations was 18%, 22%, and 37% in the ER-negative/HER2-negative, HER2-positive, and ER-positive/HER2-negative subtypes, respectively. In univariable analysis, PIK3CA mutations were associated with better IDFS (HR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.71 to 0.84; P < .001), with evidence for a stronger effect in the first years of follow-up (0 to 5 years: HR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.66 to 0.81; P < .001; 5 to 10 years: HR, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.68 to 0.99; P = .037); > 10 years: (HR, 1.15; 95% CI, 0.84 to 1.58; P = .38; P heterogeneity = .02). In multivariable analysis, PIK3CA genotype remained significant for improved IDFS ( P = .043), but not for the DDFS and OS end points. Conclusion In this large pooled analysis, PIK3CA mutations were significantly associated with a better IDFS, DDFS, and OS, but had a lesser prognostic effect after adjustment for other prognostic factors.
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- Dimitrios Zardavas
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Evangelia Razis
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - George Papaxoinis
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Heikki Joensuu
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Mary Ellen Moynahan
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Bryan T Hennessy
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Ivan Bieche
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Lao H Saal
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Olle Stal
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Barry Iacopetta
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Jeanette Dupont Jensen
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Sandra O'Toole
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Elena Lopez-Knowles
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Mattia Barbaraeschi
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Shinzaburo Noguchi
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Hatem A Azim
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Enrique Lerma
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Thomas Bachelot
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Qing Wang
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Gizeh Perez-Tenorio
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Cornelis J H Can de Velde
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Daniel W Rea
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Vicky Sabine
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - John M S Bartlett
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Christos Sotiriou
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Stefan Michiels
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Sherene Loi
- Dimitrios Zardavas and Debora Fumagalli, Breast International Group; Christos Sotiriou, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Luc te Marvelde and Roger L. Milne, Cancer Council; Roger L. Milne and Sherene Loi, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Barry Iacopetta, University of Western Australia, Western Australia; Sandra O'Toole and Elena Lopez-Knowles, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; George Fountzilas and Vassiliki Kotoula, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki; Evangelia Razis, Hygeia Hospital; George Papaxoinis, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece; Heikki Joensuu, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Mary Ellen Moynahan, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Bryan T. Hennessy, Beaumont Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Ivan Bieche, Curie Institut, Paris; Thomas Bachelot, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, Lyon; Stefan Michiels, Gustave Roussy and Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France; Lao H. Saal, Lund University, Lund; Olle Stal, Qing Wang, and Gizeh Perez-Tenorio, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Jeanette Dupont Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, on behalf of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, Odense, Denmark; Elena Lopez-Knowles, Royal Marsden NHS Trust and Institute of Cancer Research, London; Daniel W. Rea, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Mattia Barbaraeschi, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy; Shinzaburo Noguchi, Osaka University, Osaka Japan; Hatem A. Azim Jr, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon; Enrique Lerma, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cornelis J.H. can de Velde, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Vicky Sabine, University of Guelph, Guelph; John M.S. Bartlett, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Carvajal-Hausdorf DE, Stanton KP, Patsenker J, Villarroel-Espindola F, Esch A, Montgomery RR, Psyrri A, Kalogeras KT, Kotoula V, Fountzilas G, Schalper KA, Kluger Y, Rimm DL. Abstract P2-09-18: Multiplexed (18-Plex) measurement of protein targets in trastuzumab-treated patients using imaging mass cytometry. Cancer Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs17-p2-09-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Introduction: Recent studies have shown that the molecular heterogeneity of HER2 intracellular (ICD) and extracellular (ECD) domains, as well as overall immune infiltration, are associated with response to adjuvant trastuzumab. Traditional strategies for in situ measurement in the tumor microenvironment allow the combination of up to 6 targets, limiting our capability for in-depth interrogation of tissues. Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) uses metal-conjugated antibodies to provide multidimensional, objective measurement of protein targets. We used this high-throughput multiplexing platform to perform an 18-plex assessment of HER2 ICD/ECD, cytotoxic T cell infiltration and other structural and signaling proteins in a cohort of patients treated with trastuzumab.
Methods: An antibody panel for detection of 18 targets (Pancytokeratin, HER2 ICD, HER2 ECD, CD8, vimentin, cytokeratin 7, beta-catenin, HER3, MET, EGFR, ERK 1-2, MEK 1-2, PTEN, PI3K p110 alpha, Akt, mTOR, Ki67 and Histone H3) was conjugated to unique metals for detection in an IMC instrument (Fluidigm). All assays were objectively standardized and validated using quantitative immunofluoresce (QIF). Finally, the IMC technique was validated against HER2 single marker assays by QIF. We used a collection of trastuzumab-treated patients from the HeCOG 10/05 trial (n=180), and identified a case:control series using 5-year recurrence events (n=19), which were matched to controls (n=41) by age and TNM stage. Formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded tissues in tissue microarray format were ablated in the IMC attachment to the CyTOF flow cytometer for simultaneous detection of markers. Image visualization was conducted using MCD Viewer (Fluidigm). Statistical analyses were performed using a range of platforms.
Results: Patients that recurred after adjuvant treatment with trastuzumab showed a decreased fraction of HER2 ECD pixels over threshold in a compartment determined by CK and HER2 ICD compared to cases without recurrence (p=0.057). After exclusion of the lowest HER2 expressers (that would have fallen below the threshold for positive by current HER2 assays), 5-year recurrence events where associated with reduced total ECD/ ICD ratio intensity in tumor (p=0.044). Patients below the median for total ECD/ICD ratio showed a trend for decreased benefit from trastuzumab (p=0.066). Levels of cytotoxic T cell infiltration, depicted by total CD8 intensity, were lower in patients with recurrences (p=0.05).
Conclusion: Objective measurement of highly multiplexed protein targets in routine, fixed breast cancer tissues shows that a decreased ratio of HER2 ECD/ ICD is associated with 5-year recurrence after trastuzumab treatment. This observation is consistent with our previous work using QIF but represents the first time this has been done on identical cell content (on a single tissue section). Additionally, on the same section we found that lower levels of overall cytotoxic T cell infiltration were associated with worse outcome. Further analysis of the multiplexed data, including both correlative and distance-based analyses are underway.
Citation Format: Carvajal-Hausdorf DE, Stanton KP, Patsenker J, Villarroel-Espindola F, Esch A, Montgomery RR, Psyrri A, Kalogeras KT, Kotoula V, Fountzilas G, Schalper KA, Kluger Y, Rimm DL. Multiplexed (18-Plex) measurement of protein targets in trastuzumab-treated patients using imaging mass cytometry [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2017 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2017 Dec 5-9; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P2-09-18.
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- DE Carvajal-Hausdorf
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - KP Stanton
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - J Patsenker
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - F Villarroel-Espindola
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - A Esch
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - RR Montgomery
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - A Psyrri
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - KT Kalogeras
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - V Kotoula
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - G Fountzilas
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - KA Schalper
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - Y Kluger
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - DL Rimm
- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Fluidigm Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada; Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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