Purpose About 10% of breast cancer (BC) is diagnosed in stage IV. This study sought to identify factors associated with time to progression (TTP) and overall survival (OS) in a cohort of patients diagnosed with de novo metastatic breast cancer (MBC), from a single cancer center in Colombia, given that information on this aspect is limited. Methodology An observational, analytical, and retrospective cohort study was carried out. Time to progression and OS rates were estimated using the Kaplan–Meier survival functions. Cox models were developed to assess association between time to progression and time to death, using a group of fixed variables. Results Overall, 175 patients were included in the study; 33.7% of patients had luminal B HER2-negative tumors, 49.7% had bone involvement, and 83.4% had multiple metastatic sites. Tumor biology and primary tumor surgery were the variables associated with TTP and OS. Patients with luminal A tumors had the lowest progression and mortality rates (10 per 100 patients/year (95% CI: 5.0-20.0) and 12.6 per 100 patients/year (95% CI: 6.9-22.7), respectively), and patients with triple-negative tumors had the highest progression and mortality rates (40 per 100 patients/year (95% CI: 23.2-68.8) and 44.1 per 100 patients/year (95% CI: 28.1-69.1), respectively). Across the cohort, the median TTP was 2.1 years (95% CI: 1.6; the upper limit cannot be reached) and the median OS was 2.4 years (95% CI: 2-4.3). Conclusions In this cohort, patients with luminal A tumors and those who underwent tumor surgery given that they presented clinical benefit (CB) after initial systemic treatment, had the lowest progression and mortality rates. Overall, OS was inferior to other series due to high tumor burden and difficulties in accessing and continuing oncological treatments.
El estado de los ganglios axilares es uno de los factores pronósticos más importantes en cáncer de mama, siendo la biopsia de ganglio centinela (GC) un estándar en el manejo actual para la estadificación axilar. La quimioterapia neoadyuvante juega un papel cada vez más importante en el tratamiento del cáncer de mama y hoy se conoce que obtener una respuesta patológica completa (pCR), tanto en la mama como en la axila, es un predictor para supervivencia libre de enfermedad y supervivencia global. Actualmente, es controvertido el uso de la biopsia de GC posterior al tratamiento con NAC en pacientes que presentan ganglios linfáticos clínicamente positivos, estableciendo múltiples técnicas para su detección adecuada y disminución de falsos negativos. Se realizó una búsqueda de la literatura en las dos bases de datos bibliográficas más importantes como fuentes de ensayos clínicos. Se realizaron reuniones conjuntas entre las unidades funcionales de mama y tejidos blandos, patología y radiología, y se definieron los requisitos para la realizacion de ganglio centinela posterior al manejo con quimioterapia neoadyuvante en el Instituto Nacional de Cancerología.
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