| Autor: |
Morra, A.G.T. |
| Přispěvatelé: |
Schmidt, M.K., Hooning, M.J., Asperen, C.J. van, Leeuwen, F. van, Devilee, P., Hauptmann, M., Leiden University |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
None |
| Popis: |
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with substantial variability in outcome, risk factors and response to treatment. Therefore, a better understanding of the factors influencing breast cancer outcome could lead to improved prognostication and better stratification of patients into treatment subgroups. To this end, we investigated the association of hereditary genetic variants and non-genetic breast cancer risk factors with breast cancer outcome, and assessed the evidence of potential differential associations across specific tumor subtypes and patient subgroups defined by clinic-pathological variables related to tumor biology and type of systemic treatment. We focused on two breast cancer outcomes, namely survival and risk of developing a second breast cancer in the contralateral breast (contralateral breast cancer).Based on data from a large international cohort of breast cancer patients, we found clear associations of several known lifestyle breast cancer risk factors with survival in breast cancer patients, independently from specific tumor subtype, and of coding hereditary genetic variants in five known breast cancer susceptibility genes with contralateral breast cancer risk. There was also evidence of association of coding hereditary genetic variants in three known breast cancer genes with breast cancer-specific survival (time to death due to breast cancer), although weaker than for contralateral breast cancer risk. These factors could be incorporated into prediction models for breast cancer outcome thereby potentially improving prognostic estimates and breast cancer counseling. In particular, the findings related to contralateral breast cancer risk are relevant to treatment decisions, follow-up and screening of breast cancer patients. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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