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Poster display session

376P - Adoption of molecular testing in breast cancer in a tertiary care center in a developing country

Date

23 Nov 2019

Session

Poster display session

Topics

Targeted Therapy

Tumour Site

Breast Cancer

Presenters

Prasanta Dash

Citation

Annals of Oncology (2019) 30 (suppl_9): ix122-ix130. 10.1093/annonc/mdz431

Authors

P.K. Dash1, V.P.B. Koyyala2, M. Suryavanshi3, A. Jajodia2, S. Pasricha4, V. Goel2, S.J. Bothra5, S. Goyal2, U. Batra6, D.C. Doval6

Author affiliations

  • 1 Medical Oncology, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Center, 110085 - New Delhi/IN
  • 2 Medical Oncology Department, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, 110085 - New Delhi/IN
  • 3 Pathology, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, 110085 - Delhi/IN
  • 4 Pathology, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, 110085 - New Delhi/IN
  • 5 Medical Oncology, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre, 110085 - Delhi/IN
  • 6 Medical Oncology, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, 110085 - New Delhi/IN

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Abstract 376P

Background

The clinical application of rapidly developing new molecular tests in breast cancer is debatable and often not affordable for most of the patients from developing countries. We assessed the adoption of molecular testing and their utility in breast cancer patients in the setting of a developing Nation.

Methods

We analysed the results of next-generation sequencing (NGS) based BRCA1 and 2 and multi-gene testing, immunohistochemistry based (IHC) based mismatch repair genes (MMR), Programmed cell death ligand 1(PDL1) and Androgen receptor (AR) testing done in breast cancer patients diagnosed from 2015 to 2018.

Results

There was an overall increase in the number of molecular tests offered to breast cancer patients in subsequent years. 141 patients opted for BRCA testing out of which 56 (40%) were triple negative (TNBC). 27(19%) out of 141 patients were BRCA mutated and 8(6%) had variants of unknown significance (VUS). Among 15 metastatic breast cancer patients tested for mutations on Multi-gene NGS, 3 had Her2neu amplification. Out of 8 TNBC cases, 5 had TP53 mutation, 1 had exon 14 skipping mutation of MET gene and 1 showed EGFR amplification. None of the five and six breast cancer patients with TNBC tested for MMR and PD-L1 were MMR deficient or positive respectively. Of the 7 TNBC patients tested, 4 were found to have Androgen receptor expression.

Conclusions

There is a significant rise in the use of modern molecular techniques in developing nations like India. However, Country Specific guidelines guided by International guidelines and awareness in patients with specific counseling on advantages and disadvantages of these tests may help in the usage of these techniques by most needy patients, breast cancer in particular.

Clinical trial identification

Editorial acknowledgement

Legal entity responsible for the study

Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi.

Funding

Has not received any funding.

Disclosure

All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.

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