2020
Clinical Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Hormone Receptor–positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients who Received Letrozole with or Without Bevacizumab
Magbanua MJM, Savenkov O, Asmus EJ, Ballman KV, Scott JH, Park JW, Dickler M, Partridge A, Carey LA, Winer EP, Rugo HS. Clinical Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Hormone Receptor–positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients who Received Letrozole with or Without Bevacizumab. Clinical Cancer Research 2020, 26: 4911-4920. PMID: 32586939, PMCID: PMC7501177, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-20-1329.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProgression-free survivalCTC-positive patientsHormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer patientsMetastatic breast cancer patientsAddition of bevacizumabBreast cancer patientsOverall survivalCancer patientsPredictive valueMean survival time analysisMedian progression-free survivalWorse progression-free survivalAssociation of CTCsCTC-negative patientsFirst-line settingRisk of progressionCox regression modelPotential predictive valueML of bloodAdditional time pointsCirculating Tumor CellsLetrozole armOS benefitPFS benefitMultivariable analysis
2016
Time trends in incidence rates and survival of newly diagnosed stage IV breast cancer by tumor histology: a population-based analysis
Di Meglio A, Freedman RA, Lin NU, Barry WT, Metzger-Filho O, Keating NL, King TA, Sertoli MR, Boccardo F, Winer EP, Vaz-Luis I. Time trends in incidence rates and survival of newly diagnosed stage IV breast cancer by tumor histology: a population-based analysis. Breast Cancer Research And Treatment 2016, 157: 587-596. PMID: 27271765, DOI: 10.1007/s10549-016-3845-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic breast cancerMedian overall survivalOverall survivalPopulation-based analysisDuctal carcinomaLobular carcinomaAnnual percent changeBreast cancerIncidence rateDe novo metastatic breast cancerEnd Results 9 registriesHormone receptor-positive tumorsNovo metastatic breast cancerMultivariable Cox regression modelsStage IV breast cancerAnnual age-adjusted incidence ratesAge-adjusted incidence ratesAdjusted hazard ratioBetter overall survivalDate of diagnosisReceptor-positive tumorsBreast cancer incidenceCox regression modelHazard ratioTumor histology