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Prospective Observational Study of Breast Cancer Treatment Outcomes for UK Women Aged 18–40 Years at Diagnosis: The POSH Study

Prospective Observational Study of Breast Cancer Treatment Outcomes for UK Women Aged 18–40 Years at Diagnosis: The POSH Study
Prospective Observational Study of Breast Cancer Treatment Outcomes for UK Women Aged 18–40 Years at Diagnosis: The POSH Study
Background: Breast cancer at a young age is associated with poor prognosis. The Prospective Study of Outcomes in Sporadic and Hereditary Breast Cancer (POSH) was designed to investigate factors affecting prognosis in this patient group.

Methods: Between 2000 and 2008, 2956 patients aged 40 years or younger were recruited to a UK multicenter prospective observational cohort study (POSH). Details of tumor pathology, disease stage, treatment received, and outcome were recorded. Overall survival (OS) and distant disease-free interval (DDFI) were assessed using Kaplan-Meier curves. All statistical tests were two-sided.

Results: Median age of patients was 36 years. Median tumor diameter was 22mm, and 50% of patients had positive lymph nodes; 59% of tumors were grade 3, 33.7% were estrogen receptor (ER) negative, and 24% were human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive. Five-year OS was higher for patients with ER-positive than ER-negative tumors (85.0%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 83.2% to 86.7% vs 75.7%, 95% CI = 72.8% to 78.4%; P < .001), but by eight years, survival was almost equal. The eight-year OS of patients with ER-positive tumors was similar to that of patients with ER-negative tumors in both HER2-positive and HER2-negative subgroups. The flexible parametric survival model for OS shows that the risk of death increases steadily over time for patients with ER-positive tumors in contrast to patients with ER-negative tumors, where risk of death peaked at two years.

Conclusions: These results confirm the increased frequency of ER-negative tumors and early relapse in young patients and also demonstrate the equally poor longer-term outlook of young patients who have ER-positive tumors with HER2-negative or -positive disease.
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Copson, Ellen, Eccles, Bryony, Maishman, Tom, Gerty, Sue, Stanton, L., Cutress, Ramsey I., Altman, Douglas G., Durcan, Lorraine, Simmonds, Peter, Lawrence, Gill, Jones, Louise, Bliss, Judith and Eccles, Diana (2013) Prospective Observational Study of Breast Cancer Treatment Outcomes for UK Women Aged 18–40 Years at Diagnosis: The POSH Study. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 105 (13), 978-988. (doi:10.1093/jnci/djt134). (PMID:23723422)

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Abstract

Background: Breast cancer at a young age is associated with poor prognosis. The Prospective Study of Outcomes in Sporadic and Hereditary Breast Cancer (POSH) was designed to investigate factors affecting prognosis in this patient group.

Methods: Between 2000 and 2008, 2956 patients aged 40 years or younger were recruited to a UK multicenter prospective observational cohort study (POSH). Details of tumor pathology, disease stage, treatment received, and outcome were recorded. Overall survival (OS) and distant disease-free interval (DDFI) were assessed using Kaplan-Meier curves. All statistical tests were two-sided.

Results: Median age of patients was 36 years. Median tumor diameter was 22mm, and 50% of patients had positive lymph nodes; 59% of tumors were grade 3, 33.7% were estrogen receptor (ER) negative, and 24% were human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive. Five-year OS was higher for patients with ER-positive than ER-negative tumors (85.0%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 83.2% to 86.7% vs 75.7%, 95% CI = 72.8% to 78.4%; P < .001), but by eight years, survival was almost equal. The eight-year OS of patients with ER-positive tumors was similar to that of patients with ER-negative tumors in both HER2-positive and HER2-negative subgroups. The flexible parametric survival model for OS shows that the risk of death increases steadily over time for patients with ER-positive tumors in contrast to patients with ER-negative tumors, where risk of death peaked at two years.

Conclusions: These results confirm the increased frequency of ER-negative tumors and early relapse in young patients and also demonstrate the equally poor longer-term outlook of young patients who have ER-positive tumors with HER2-negative or -positive disease.

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Published date: 30 May 2013
Organisations: Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Trials Unit

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Local EPrints ID: 353191
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/353191
ISSN: 0027-8874
PURE UUID: e69e4460-92d9-4443-bad9-316275835c90
ORCID for L. Stanton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8181-840X
ORCID for Diana Eccles: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9935-3169

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Date deposited: 03 Jun 2013 12:58
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:28

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Author: Ellen Copson
Author: Bryony Eccles
Author: Tom Maishman
Author: Sue Gerty
Author: L. Stanton ORCID iD
Author: Douglas G. Altman
Author: Lorraine Durcan
Author: Peter Simmonds
Author: Gill Lawrence
Author: Louise Jones
Author: Judith Bliss
Author: Diana Eccles ORCID iD

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