Breast cancer screening: Biology of tumors detected by analog and digital mammography.

Authors

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Caroline Drukker

Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Caroline Drukker , Marjanka Schmidt , Emiel J. Rutgers , Fatima Cardoso , Karla Kerlikowske , Laura Esserman , Leen Slaets , Jan Bogaerts , Laura J. van 't Veer

Organizations

Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Champalimaud Cancer Center, Lisbon, Portugal, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Brussels, Belgium

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: Population-based screening might be associated with a higher likelihood of a (ultra)low risk tumor assessed by the 70-gene signature (MammaPrint) (ultralow defined as indexscore >0.6, no distant metastasis observed at 5 years in the original 78 patients). The aim of this study is to determine the proportion of biologically (ultra)low risk tumors among the screen-detected tumors and to evaluate the impact of the analog versus digital screening technique. Methods: All Dutch breast cancer patients enrolled in the MINDACT trial (EORTC-10041), who were invited for the Dutch screening program (biennial, age 50-75), were included (n=1409). The proportions of 70-gene signature high, low and ultralow risk were calculated for patients with screen-detected (n=775), interval (n=390), and symptomatic, non-screening (n=244) carcinomas, taking into account analog vs. digital technology. Co-variants such as age, tumor size, grade, histological type, ER, HER2 and nodal status were included in the analyses. Results: Among the screen-detected tumors, 31.5% had a high risk, 31.2% a low risk and 37.3% an ultralow risk 70-gene signature result, compared to 47.4%, 28.5% and 24.1% among the interval carcinomas, respectively (p=0.001). Among the screen-detected carcinomas, 40.6% were detected using analog (n=315) and 59.4% using digital mammography (n=459). When using digital imaging a shift was seen among the screen-detected tumors in the proportions of high risk tumors from 27% to 35% and ultralow risk from 42% to 34%, low risk proportions remained the same (31%)(p=0.011). No such difference was seen for other tumor characteristics. Conclusions: Screen-detection was found to be associated with a higher likelihood of a biologically low risk tumor. The transition from analog to digital mammography resulted in a smaller proportion of ultralow risk and a larger proportion of high risk tumors among the screen-detected carcinomas.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2013 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Breast Cancer - HER2/ER

Track

Breast Cancer

Sub Track

ER+

Citation

J Clin Oncol 31, 2013 (suppl; abstr 587)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2013.31.15_suppl.587

Abstract #

587

Poster Bd #

7B

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