• Wien. Klin. Wochenschr. · Sep 2023

    Axillary lymph node status and invasive lobular breast cancer : Analysis of the Clinical Tumor Register of the AGO Austria.

    • Sabine Danzinger, Karin Pöckl, Gerit Kronawetter, Christian Pfeifer, Sandra Behrendt, Patricia Gscheidlinger, Lois Harrasser, Helmut Mühlböck, Walter Dirschlmayer, Christian Schauer, Roland Reitsamer, Heidemarie Uher, Kristina Schönau, Irmgard Delmarko, and Christian F Singer.
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090, Vienna, Austria. sabine.danzinger@meduniwien.ac.at.
    • Wien. Klin. Wochenschr. 2023 Sep 1; 135 (17-18): 463471463-471.

    BackgroundInvasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) represents the second most common type of invasive breast cancer (BC). Although ILC generally have good prognostic properties (positive estrogen receptor, ER, low tumor grade), they are generally diagnosed at a more advanced stage. The data on the axillary lymph node status in ILC compared to invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) are considered controversial. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the pathological node stage (pN) between ILC and IDC in an Austria-wide register.MethodsData of the Clinical Tumor Register (Klinisches TumorRegister, KTR) of the Austrian Association for Gynecological Oncology (AGO) were retrospectively analyzed. Patients with primary early BC, invasive lobular or ductal, diagnosed between January 2014 and December 2018, and primary surgery were included. A total of 2127 tumors were evaluated and compared in 2 groups, ILC n = 303, IDC n = 1824.ResultsA total of 2095 patients were analyzed in the study. In the multivariate analysis, pN2 and pN3 were observed significantly more frequently in ILC compared with IDC (odds ratio, OR 1.93; 95% confidence interval, CI 1.19-3.14; p = 0.008 and OR 3.22; 95% CI: 1.47-7.03; p = 0.003; respectively). Other factors associated with ILC were tumor grades 2 and 3, positive ER, and pathological tumor stage (pT) 2 and pT3. In contrast, concomitant ductal carcinoma in situ, overexpression of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), and a moderate and high proliferation rate (Ki67) were found less frequently in ILC.ConclusionThe data show an increased risk of extensive axillary lymph node metastasis (pN2/3) in ILC.© 2023. The Author(s).

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