• Clinical breast cancer · Oct 2015

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    Hormone Receptor Status and HER2 Expression in Primary Breast Cancer Compared With Synchronous Axillary Metastases or Recurrent Metastatic Disease.

    • Sabrina Rossi, Michele Basso, Antonia Strippoli, Vincenzo Dadduzio, Eleonora Cerchiaro, Rosalba Barile, Ettore D'Argento, Alessandra Cassano, Giovanni Schinzari, and Carlo Barone.
    • Medical Oncology, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: sbrn.rossi85@gmail.com.
    • Clin. Breast Cancer. 2015 Oct 1; 15 (5): 307-12.

    AbstractEstrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and HER2/neu are the most important tissue markers in the management of breast cancer, in the adjuvant setting and in the setting of metastatic disease. Many studies have demonstrated a discordance of expression between primary breast cancer, synchronous axillary metastases, and metastatic sites. The aim of this article is to review studies on discordance of expression of these predictive parameters to better understand the importance of a reassessment of biomolecular status to modify treatment strategies. We performed a literature review to identify studies that assessed ER, PR, and HER2 discordance between primary breast cancer, synchronous axillary lymph node metastasis, and other metastatic sites. We reviewed these data related to (1) relevance of discordance rates in clinical practice and (2) therapeutic consequences of discordance rate. Results were analyzed qualitatively. Changes in ER and particularly in PR are observed in locoregional and in distant metastases reaching a rate of 10% to 30% for ER and 20% to 50% for PR. The loss of PR is more frequent than ER loss. High HER2 concordance between primary tumors and axillary lymph node or distant metastases has been demonstrated in many studies; in the discordant cases, it is more frequent to have HER2-positive metastases with negative primary tumors than the opposite. A reassessment of biomolecular status in residual tumors after neoadjuvant treatment or in metastatic sites is advisable, whenever it is possible, to correct/modify the treatment schedule and to estimate the actual prognosis. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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