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  • Kalinsky, Kevin; Barlow, William E; Gralow, Julie R; Meric-Bernstam, Funda; Albain, Kathy S; Hayes, Daniel F; Lin, Nancy U; Perez, Edith A; Goldstein, Lori J; Chia, Stephen K L; Dhesy-Thind, Sukhbinder; Rastogi, Priya; Alba, Emilio; Delaloge, Suzette; Martin, Miguel; Kelly, Catherine M; Ruiz-Borrego, Manuel; Gil-Gil, Miguel; Arce-Salinas, Claudia H; Brain, Etienne G C; Lee, Eun-Sook; Pierga, Jean-Yves; Bermejo, Begoña; Ramos-Vazquez, Manuel; Jung, Kyung-Hae; Ferrero, Jean-Marc; Schott, Anne F; Shak, Steven; Sharma, Priyanka; Lew, Danika L; Miao, Jieling; Tripathy, Debasish; Pusztai, Lajos; Hortobagyi, Gabriel N

    The New England journal of medicine, 12/2021, Letnik: 385, Številka: 25
    Journal Article

    The recurrence score based on the 21-gene breast-cancer assay has been clinically useful in predicting a chemotherapy benefit in hormone-receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, axillary lymph-node-negative breast cancer. In women with positive lymph-node disease, the role of the recurrence score with respect to predicting a benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy is unclear. In a prospective trial, we randomly assigned women with hormone-receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, one to three positive axillary lymph nodes, and a recurrence score of 25 or lower (scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating a worse prognosis) to endocrine therapy only or to chemotherapy plus endocrine (chemoendocrine) therapy. The primary objective was to determine the effect of chemotherapy on invasive disease-free survival and whether the effect was influenced by the recurrence score. Secondary end points included distant relapse-free survival. A total of 5083 women (33.2% premenopausal and 66.8% postmenopausal) underwent randomization, and 5018 participated in the trial. At the prespecified third interim analysis, the chemotherapy benefit with respect to increasing invasive disease-free survival differed according to menopausal status (P = 0.008 for the comparison of chemotherapy benefit in premenopausal and postmenopausal participants), and separate prespecified analyses were conducted. Among postmenopausal women, invasive disease-free survival at 5 years was 91.9% in the endocrine-only group and 91.3% in the chemoendocrine group, with no chemotherapy benefit (hazard ratio for invasive disease recurrence, new primary cancer breast cancer or another type, or death, 1.02; 95% confidence interval CI, 0.82 to 1.26; P = 0.89). Among premenopausal women, invasive disease-free survival at 5 years was 89.0% with endocrine-only therapy and 93.9% with chemoendocrine therapy (hazard ratio, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.43 to 0.83; P = 0.002), with a similar increase in distant relapse-free survival (hazard ratio, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.39 to 0.87; P = 0.009). The relative chemotherapy benefit did not increase as the recurrence score increased. Among premenopausal women with one to three positive lymph nodes and a recurrence score of 25 or lower, those who received chemoendocrine therapy had longer invasive disease-free survival and distant relapse-free survival than those who received endocrine-only therapy, whereas postmenopausal women with similar characteristics did not benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. (Funded by the National Cancer Institute and others; RxPONDER ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01272037.).