HER-2 overexpression + HR positive

Based on our clinical experience, we provide a unanimous consensus concerning the treatment of elderly patients as well as those with brain-only metastases, leptomeningeal disease, oligometastatic disease, central nervous system oligo-progressive disease or ERBB2-mutant disease. We also discuss how to combine HER2-targeted therapy with endocrine therapy in patients with HER2-positive/hormone-receptor-positive disease, considerations for potential discontinuation of HER2-targeted therapy in patients with long-term remission and how to treat patients whose metastatic biopsy no longer confirms their HER2-positive status.

Strict adherence to the selection criteria in this study resulted in low rates of side effects, mortality, and local recurrences, demonstrating that IORT is an effective treatment alternative for patients with EBC. Studies with a longer follow-up period should be performed, as recurrences can occur in the long term.

In this study, we analyzed the intrinsic subtype of HR positive, HER2 positive breast cancer based on prediction analysis of microarray 50 (PAM50) and Breast Cancer 360 panel (nanostring) between durable and poor responder in first-line docetaxel + trastuzumab + pertuzumab (THP) treated patients. Conclusions Other than HER2 pathway, ER pathway and inflammatory signal may influence the tumor response of HR(+), HER2 (+) breast cancer. Further clinical trials should be designed based not only on HER2 status, ER status and other molecular subtypes should be considered to maximize the clinical benefit.

The current study showed the feasibility of a real-time HER2 assessment on CTCs enriched from mBC pts. The developed pipeline was able to count and identify HER2-positive CTCs with higher efficiency than the gold-standard CellSearch® overall and interestingly, also in the HER2-negative subgroup. This is a preliminary analysis that should be confirmed in larger cohorts.

For a single marker, GATA3 displayed the highest sensitivity. The addition of MMG for hormone receptor-positive breast cancers and GCDFP15 for hormone receptor-negative breast cancers further increased sensitivity. The low proportion of multimarker-positive cells suggested that the coexpression observed with traditional ICC is attributable to intratumoral heterogeneity, not genuine coexpression.

This systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrated that HLA class I expression is associated with a significant improvement in disease-free survival, though no significant effect on overall survival was observed.

This study revealed the incidence and clinical outcomes of HER2-low expression in de novo advanced breast cancer, suggesting favorable outcomes, particularly in HR-positive breast cancer. These findings may inform personalized treatment strategies. Further research into the mechanisms and implications of HER2-low expression in breast cancer is required.

We found that patients with HER2-high disease were more likely to achieve pCR after NAT compared to patients with HER2-intermediate BC, a subgroup of patients that may benefit from more personalized NAT strategies.

Patients who underwent breast-conserving surgery in our study demonstrated favorable outcomes compared to patients after mastectomy. Although margin status did not significantly affect overall survival, larger multicenter studies are needed to evaluate the prognostic implications of margin involvement in breast cancer treatment in different tumor stages, tumor subtypes and local and systemic treatments.