Survival outcomes of young patients under 40 with breast cancer in Asian countries according to subtype: An international multicenter cohort study.

Authors

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Jinyong Kim

Department of hemato-oncology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

Jinyong Kim , Kyung-Hun Lee , Yeon Hee Park , Ching-Hung Lin , Yen-Shen Lu , Takayuki Ueno , Yoon Sim Yap , Winnie Yeo , Qiang Liu , Roland Ching-Yu Leung , Yoichi Naito , Huiping Li , Han-Byoel Lee , Wonshik Han , Seock-Ah Im

Organizations

Department of hemato-oncology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, National Taiwan University Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, The Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan, National Cancer Centre of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Clinical Oncology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of SunYat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan, Department of Breast Oncology, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education/Beijing), Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, China, China, Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Jongno-Gu, South Korea, Medical Oncology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

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Background: The incidence of young Asian women with breast cancer has been increasing but these patients are underrepresented in global data. We analyzed the epidemiology and outcomes of the young Asian patients with breast cancer in different subtypes with clinically unmet need. Methods: Female patients of age 20 years or older diagnosed with early breast cancer of stage I, II, or III from the prospective cohort of the Asian Breast Cancer Cooperative Group (ABCCG) were analyzed. For comparison, data of patients with early breast cancer from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) cancer registry was used. The patients were divided into three age groups: young (below 40 years), alleged premenopausal mid-age (40-49 years), and alleged postmenopausal elderly (50 years and older). Multivariable Cox proportional-hazard models for survivals were adjusted with age, subtypes consisting of hormone receptor (HR) and human epithelial growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status, histologic grade, T stage, nodal status, and countries. Patients diagnosed in 2000–2010 were censored at 6 years for comparability with SEER database. Results: Total 45,021 patients with breast cancer from Asian countries, 496,332 of SEER Whites and 18,279 from SEER non-Whites were included. The median age at diagnosis was younger in Asians compared to SEER Whites and non-Whites (51, 62, 58 years, respectively). Among subtypes, HR-positive and HER2-negative breast cancer was more frequent among SEER Whites and SEER non-Whites, compared to Asians (75.89%, 73.38% vs. 65.75%, respectively). In the young group, HR-positive and HER2-negative breast cancer was prevalent in Asians and SEER non-Whites, compared to SEER Whites (61.2% and 59.8% vs. 54.7%, respectively). In the elderly group, the proportion of HR-positive breast cancer increased in SEER Whites, while that of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) increased in Asians. Elderly group showed the worst survival in all subtypes and in all populations. In Asian population, the mid-age group of the patients with HR-positive and HER2-negative breast cancer showed significantly superior overall survival (OS) than the young group (6 year OS 96.6% vs. 94.4%; hazard ratio 0.62, 95% confidence interval 0.50-0.76; p<0.001). Similarly, young patients in SEER Whites also showed early decline of survival curve compared those in mid-age group (89.1% vs. 94.0%, p<0.001), while young patients of SEER non-Whites showed equivalent prognosis to those in mid-age group (92.4% vs. 95.0%, p=0.118). Conclusions: Young Asian breast cancer patients diagnosed with HR-positive and HER2-negative subtypes, but not HER2-positive or TNBC subtypes, are more likely to have worse survival outcomes than those in mid-age. Further studies on young patients with breast cancer are needed for tailored treatments among different subtypes and ethnic groups.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Breast Cancer—Local/Regional/Adjuvant

Track

Breast Cancer

Sub Track

Biologic Correlates

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr 562)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.562

Abstract #

562

Poster Bd #

392

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