Emre Özgür1, Ferhat Ferhatoğlu2, Fatma Şen3, Pinar Saip2, Ugur Gezer1. 1. Department of Basic Oncology, Oncology Institute, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. 2. Department of Medical Oncology, Oncology Institute, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. 3. Avrasya Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Novel biomarkers are needed to predict the effectiveness of the treatment of presurgical neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in breast cancer (BC). OBJECTIVE: This is an exploratory study to assess the impact of 3 cancer-related long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) (H19, MALAT1 and GA5) in blood plasma of patients with BC in predicting the response to NAC. METHODS: The plasma levels of RNAs were relatively measured by quantitative PCR at baseline, and at the end of the fourth cycle of NAC in patients with locally advanced BC. RESULTS: Only H19 was associated with patients' characteristics, and with the response to NAC. Higher plasma expression of H19 was associated with younger age at diagnosis, triple negative tumors, and Ki-67 index. Patients with a pathological complete response (20%) had lower pre-therapeutic levels of H19 compared with the non-complete responders (relative levels 0.1 vs 0.2, respectively, P: 0.04). In addition, the patients with higher degree of downstaging of initial tumors had lower baseline levels of H19 among non-complete responders. CONCLUSION: Our study reveals that H19, but not MALAT1 and GAS5, may be a useful marker of response to NAC in BC.
BACKGROUND: Novel biomarkers are needed to predict the effectiveness of the treatment of presurgical neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in breast cancer (BC). OBJECTIVE: This is an exploratory study to assess the impact of 3 cancer-related long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) (H19, MALAT1 and GA5) in blood plasma of patients with BC in predicting the response to NAC. METHODS: The plasma levels of RNAs were relatively measured by quantitative PCR at baseline, and at the end of the fourth cycle of NAC in patients with locally advanced BC. RESULTS: Only H19 was associated with patients' characteristics, and with the response to NAC. Higher plasma expression of H19 was associated with younger age at diagnosis, triple negative tumors, and Ki-67 index. Patients with a pathological complete response (20%) had lower pre-therapeutic levels of H19 compared with the non-complete responders (relative levels 0.1 vs 0.2, respectively, P: 0.04). In addition, the patients with higher degree of downstaging of initial tumors had lower baseline levels of H19 among non-complete responders. CONCLUSION: Our study reveals that H19, but not MALAT1 and GAS5, may be a useful marker of response to NAC in BC.
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Breast cancer; blood plasma; long non-coding RNAs; neoadjuvant chemotherapy; pathological complete response
Authors: Feng-Jiao Gan; Yi Li; Meng-Xi Xu; Tie Zhou; Shun Wu; Kang Hu; Yan Li; Su-Hong Sun; Qing Luo Journal: Cancer Biomark Date: 2021 Impact factor: 4.388