Wegscheider Anne-Sophie, Ulm Bernhard, Friedrichs Kay, Lindner Christoph, Niendorf Axel
MVZ Prof. Dr. med. A. Niendorf Pathologie Hamburg-West GmbH Institut für Histologie, Zytologie und Molekulare Diagnostik, 22767 Hamburg, Germany.
Unabhängige Statistische Beratung Bernhard Ulm, 80339 München, Germany.
Cancers (Basel). 2021 Jul 28;13(15):3799. doi: 10.3390/cancers13153799.
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease representing a number of different histopathologic and molecular types which should be taken into consideration if prognostic or predictive models are to be developed. The aim of the present study was to demonstrate the validity of the long-known Nottingham prognostic index (NPI) in a large retrospective study ( = 6654 women with a first primary unilateral and unifocal invasive breast cancer diagnosed and treated between April 1996 and October 2018; median follow-up time of breast cancer cases was 15.5 years [14.9-16.8]) from a single pathological institution. Furthermore, it was intended to develop an even superior risk stratification model considering an additional variable, namely the patient's age at the time of diagnosis. Heterogeneity of these cases was addressed by focusing on estrogen receptor-positive as well as Her2-negative cases and taking the WHO-defined different tumor types into account. Calculating progression free survival Cox-regression and CART-analysis revealed significantly superior iAUC as well as concordance values in comparison to the NPI based stratification, leading to an alternative, namely the Altona prognostic index (API). The importance of the histopathological tumor type was corroborated by the fact that when calculated separately and in contrast to the most frequent so-called "No Special Type" (NST) carcinomas, neither NPI nor API could show valid prognostic stratification.
乳腺癌是一种异质性疾病,包含多种不同的组织病理学和分子类型。如果要开发预后或预测模型,就需要考虑这些因素。本研究的目的是在一项大型回顾性研究中(研究对象为1996年4月至2018年10月期间确诊并接受治疗的6654例首次原发性单侧单灶浸润性乳腺癌女性患者;乳腺癌病例的中位随访时间为15.5年[14.9 - 16.8]),验证早已为人所知的诺丁汉预后指数(NPI)的有效性。此外,本研究旨在开发一个更优的风险分层模型,该模型考虑了一个额外变量,即患者诊断时的年龄。通过聚焦雌激素受体阳性以及人表皮生长因子受体2(Her2)阴性病例,并考虑世界卫生组织定义的不同肿瘤类型,解决了这些病例的异质性问题。计算无进展生存期的Cox回归和CART分析显示,与基于NPI的分层相比,iAUC和一致性值显著更优,从而得出了一个替代方案,即阿尔托纳预后指数(API)。组织病理学肿瘤类型的重要性得到了以下事实的证实:与最常见的所谓“非特殊类型”(NST)癌相比,单独计算时,NPI和API均无法显示有效的预后分层。