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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 7, Pages 767-772Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.05.8172
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- NCI NIH HHS [U10CA-12027, U10CA-69974, P-U10CA-37377, U10CA-69651] Funding Source: Medline
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Purpose The role of high-degree microsatellite instability (MSI-H) as a marker to predict benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy remains unclear. Patients and Methods To help define its impact, we conducted an analysis of National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) patients who were randomly assigned to a surgery-alone group (untreated cohort) and patients assigned to an adjuvant fluorouracil (FU) -treated group (treated cohort). MSI-H and other potential markers were assessed (TGF-BRII, p53, thymidylate synthase, and Ki67). Results In all, 98 (18.1 %) of 542 patients exhibited MSI-H, and there was a strong inverse relationship between MSI-H and mutant p53 status (P <.001). The prognostic analyses showed increased recurrence-free survival (RFS) for MSI-H patients versus MSS/MSI-L patients (P =.10), but showed no difference in overall survival (OS; P =.67). There was a potential interaction between MSI-H and mutant p53 in terms of improved RFS (P =.03). In the predictive marker analysis, we observed no interaction between MSI status and treatment for either RFS (P =.68) or OS (P =.62). Hazard ratios (HR) for RFS for MSI-H versus MSS/MSI-L patients were 0.77 (95% Cl, 0.40 to 1.48) in the untreated-patients group and 0.60 (95% Cl, 0.30 to 1.19) in the treated-patients group. HRs for OS were 0.82 (95% Cl, 0.44 to 1.51) and 1.02 (95% Cl, 0.56 to 1.85) for the respective groups. There was a trend toward improved RFS in patients with MSI-H and mutant p53. Conclusion These results do not support the use of MSI-H as a predictive marker of chemotherapy benefit.
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