The prognostic and predictive value of Tregs and tumor immune subtypes in postmenopausal, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer patients treated with adjuvant endocrine therapy: a Dutch TEAM study analysis

Evidence exists for an immunomodulatory effect of endocrine therapy in hormone receptor-positive (HR+ve) breast cancer (BC). Therefore, the aim of this study was to define the prognostic and predictive value of tumor immune markers and the tumor immune profile in HR+ve BC, treated with different endocrine treatment regimens. 2,596 Dutch TEAM patients were treated with 5 years of adjuvant hormonal treatment, randomly assigned to different regimens: 5 years of exemestane or sequential treatment (2.5 years of tamoxifen–2.5 years of exemestane). Immunohistochemistry was performed for HLA class I,... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Engels, C.C. (Charla C.)
Charehbili, A. (Ayoub)
van de Velde, C.J.H. (Cornelis)
Bastiaannet, E. (Esther)
Sajet, A. (Anita)
Putter, H. (Hein)
van Vliet, E.A.
Vlierberghe, R.L.P. (Ronald L.) van
Smit, V.T.H.B.M. (Vincent)
Bartlett, J.M.S. (John)
Seynaeve, C.M. (Caroline)
Liefers, G.-J. (Gerrit-Jan)
Kuppen, P.J.K. (P. J K)
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Schlagwörter: Adjuvant endocrine therapy / Breast cancer / Prognostic and predictive value / Tumor immune subtypes
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29035780
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : http://repub.eur.nl/pub/82105

Evidence exists for an immunomodulatory effect of endocrine therapy in hormone receptor-positive (HR+ve) breast cancer (BC). Therefore, the aim of this study was to define the prognostic and predictive value of tumor immune markers and the tumor immune profile in HR+ve BC, treated with different endocrine treatment regimens. 2,596 Dutch TEAM patients were treated with 5 years of adjuvant hormonal treatment, randomly assigned to different regimens: 5 years of exemestane or sequential treatment (2.5 years of tamoxifen–2.5 years of exemestane). Immunohistochemistry was performed for HLA class I, HLA-E, HLA-G, and FoxP3. Tumor immune subtypes (IS) (low, intermediate & high immune susceptible) were determined by the effect size of mono-immune markers on relapse rate. Patients on sequential treatment with high level of tumor-infiltrating FoxP3+ cells had significant (p = 0.019, HR 0.729, 95 % CI 0.560–0.949) better OS. Significant interaction for endocrine treatment and FoxP3+ presence was seen (OS p < 0.001). Tumor IS were only of prognostic value for the sequentially endocrine-treated patients (RFP: p = 0.035, HR intermediate IS 1.420, 95 % CI 0.878–2.297; HR low IS 1.657, 95 % CI 1.131–2.428; BCSS: p = 0.002, HR intermediate IS 2.486, 95 % CI 1.375–4.495; HR low IS 2.422, 95 % CI 1.439–4.076; and OS: p = 0.005, HR intermediate IS 1.509, 95 % CI 0.950–2.395; HR low IS 1.848, 95 % CI 1.277–2.675). Tregs and the tumor IS presented in this study harbor prognostic value for sequentially endocrine-treated HR+ve postmenopausal BC patients, but not for solely exemestane-treated patients. Therefore, these markers could be used as a clinical risk stratification tool to guide adjuvant treatment in this BC population.