Preoperative therapy is increasingly used in operable disease to improve the chance for breast-conservative surgery. Moreover, this strategy allows for a better definition of patient prognosis. Independently from stage at diagnosis and breast cancer subtype, the achievement of a pathological complete response (pCR) is a surrogate marker for long-term outcome. The likelihood of pCR depends on tumor biology, being poorly differentiated tumors with ductal histology, absence of hormone receptors, and high proliferation rate those with a higher chance of achieving a pCR. However, pCR is a late efficacy parameter that can be evaluated at the end of the preoperative treatment; moreover, a pCR is achieved in a minority of patients and is not an appropriate efficacy measure for neoadjuvant endocrine therapy. The predictive role of tumor biomarkers such as p53, microtubule-associated tau protein, and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase will be reviewed along with potential markers of early treatment effect.

Biomarkers predicting clinical benefit: fact or fiction? / Guarneri, Valentina; Barbieri, Elena; Conte, Pierfranco. - In: JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE. MONOGRAPHS. - ISSN 1745-6614. - STAMPA. - 43:(2011), pp. 63-66. [10.1093/jncimonographs/lgr021]

Biomarkers predicting clinical benefit: fact or fiction?

GUARNERI, Valentina;BARBIERI, Elena;CONTE, Pierfranco
2011

Abstract

Preoperative therapy is increasingly used in operable disease to improve the chance for breast-conservative surgery. Moreover, this strategy allows for a better definition of patient prognosis. Independently from stage at diagnosis and breast cancer subtype, the achievement of a pathological complete response (pCR) is a surrogate marker for long-term outcome. The likelihood of pCR depends on tumor biology, being poorly differentiated tumors with ductal histology, absence of hormone receptors, and high proliferation rate those with a higher chance of achieving a pCR. However, pCR is a late efficacy parameter that can be evaluated at the end of the preoperative treatment; moreover, a pCR is achieved in a minority of patients and is not an appropriate efficacy measure for neoadjuvant endocrine therapy. The predictive role of tumor biomarkers such as p53, microtubule-associated tau protein, and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase will be reviewed along with potential markers of early treatment effect.
2011
43
63
66
Biomarkers predicting clinical benefit: fact or fiction? / Guarneri, Valentina; Barbieri, Elena; Conte, Pierfranco. - In: JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE. MONOGRAPHS. - ISSN 1745-6614. - STAMPA. - 43:(2011), pp. 63-66. [10.1093/jncimonographs/lgr021]
Guarneri, Valentina; Barbieri, Elena; Conte, Pierfranco
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