In the EpiTax neoadjuvant trial, enrolling patients between 1997-2003, patients with primary breast cancers (T2 >4cm, T3/T4 and/or N2/N3) were randomized to epirubicin 90mg/m2/3W or paclitaxel 200mg/m²/3W monotherapy, with cross-over in case of inferior response....CDH1 mutations predicted resistance also within the subgroup of lobular cases (p=0.002)...mutations in CDH1 predicted resistance to paclitaxel and epirubicin.