The Transcriptomic Portrait of Locally Advanced Breast Cancer and Its Prognostic Value in a Multi-Country Cohort of Latin American Patients
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Purposes: Most molecular-based published studies on breast cancer do not adequately represent the unique and diverse genetic admixture of the Latin American population. Searching for similarities and differences in molecular pathways associated with these tumors and evaluating its impact on prognosis may help to select better therapeutic approaches. Patients and methods: We collected clinical, pathological, and transcriptomic data of a multi-country Latin American cohort of 1,071 stage II-III breast cancer patients of the Molecular Profile of Breast Cancer Study (MPBCS) cohort. The 5-year prognostic ability of intrinsic (transcriptomic-based) PAM50 and immunohistochemical classifications, both at the cancer-specific (OSC) and disease-free survival (DFS) stages, was compared. Pathway analyses (GSEA, GSVA and MetaCore) were performed to explore differences among intrinsic subtypes. Results: PAM50 classification of the MPBCS cohort defined 42·6% of tumors as LumA, 21·3% as LumB, 13·3% as HER2E and 16·6% as Basal. Both OSC and DFS for LumA tumors were significantly better than for other subtypes, while Basal tumors had the worst prognosis. While the prognostic power of traditional subtypes calculated with hormone receptors (HR), HER2 and Ki67 determinations showed an acceptable performance, PAM50-derived risk of recurrence best discriminated low, intermediate and high-risk groups. Transcriptomic pathway analysis showed high proliferation (i.e. cell cycle control and DNA damage repair) associated with LumB, HER2E and Basal tumors, and a strong dependency on the estrogen pathway for LumA. Terms related to both innate and adaptive immune responses were seen predominantly upregulated in Basal tumors, and, to a lesser extent, in HER2E, with respect to LumA and B tumors. Conclusions: This is the first study that assesses molecular features at the transcriptomic level in a multicountry Latin American breast cancer patient cohort. Hormone-related and proliferation pathways that predominate in PAM50 and other breast cancer molecular classifications are also the main tumor-driving mechanisms in this cohort and have prognostic power. The immune-related features seen in the most aggressive subtypes may pave the way for therapeutic approaches not yet disseminated in Latin America.
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Latin America PAM50 subtypes Biological pathways Breast cancer Risk of recurrence NEOPLASIAS DE LA MAMA PRONÓSTICO FACTORES DE RIESGO GENÓMICA |
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| Universidad de la República | |
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| https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/55132 | |
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| Licencia Creative Commons Atribución (CC - By 4.0) |
| Sumario: | Andrea Sabina Llera 1, Eliana Saul Furquim Werneck Abdelhay 2, Nora Artagaveytia 3, Adrián Daneri-Navarro 4, Bettina Müller 5, Carlos Velazquez 6, Elsa B Alcoba 7, Isabel Alonso 8, Daniela B Alves da Quinta 1 9, Renata Binato 2, Alicia Inés Bravo 10, Natalia Camejo 3, Dirce Maria Carraro 11, Mónica Castro 12, Juan M Castro-Cervantes 13, Sandra Cataldi 14, Alfonso Cayota 15, Mauricio Cerda 16, Alicia Colombo 17, Susanne Crocamo 18, Alicia Del Toro-Arreola 4, Raúl Delgadillo-Cisterna 13, Lucía Delgado 3, Marisa Dreyer-Breitenbach 19, Laura Fejerman 20, Elmer A Fernández 21 22, Jorge Fernández 23, Wanda Fernández 24, Ramón A Franco-Topete 25, Carolina Gabay 12, Fancy Gaete 26, Adriana Garibay-Escobar 6, Jorge Gómez 27, Gonzalo Greif 15, Thomas G Gross 28, Marisol Guerrero 29, Marianne K Henderson 28, Miguel E Lopez-Muñoz 6, Alejandra Lopez-Vazquez 6, Silvina Maldonado 10, Andrés J Morán-Mendoza 30, Maria Aparecida Nagai 31, Antonio Oceguera-Villanueva 32, Miguel A Ortiz-Martínez 33, Jael Quintero 34, Antonio Quintero-Ramos 4, Rui M Reis 35, Javier Retamales 36, Ernesto Rivera-Claisse 37, Darío Rocha 22, Robinson Rodríguez 38, Cristina Rosales 7, Efrain Salas-González 30, Verónica Sanchotena 7, Laura Segovia 39, Juan Martín Sendoya 1, Aida A Silva-García 25, Alejandra Trinchero 10, Olivia Valenzuela 6, Vidya Vedham 28, Livia Zagame 32; United States-Latin American Cancer Research Network (US-LACRN); Osvaldo L Podhajcer 1 |
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