• 1. Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Nanchong Fifth People’s Hospital (Affiliated Hospital of China West Normal University), Nanchong, Sichuan 637000, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Yingshan Hospital of West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Nanchong, Sichuan 637000, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Affiliated Suining Central Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Suining, Sichuan 629000, P. R. China;
  • 4. Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Breast Cancer Biotargeting Laboratory, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan 637000, P. R. China;
XIE Shaoli, Email: xsl675086087@yeah.net
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Objective  To explore the relationship between the metastatic sites and prognosis in newly diagnosed stage Ⅳ breast cancer. Methods  The data of newly diagnosed female patients with stage Ⅳ invasive breast cancer with complete follow-up data from SEER database from 2010 to 2015 were grouped according to different metastatic sites, and the differences of breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) in different metastatic sites were analyzed by univariate and multivariate Cox. Kaplan-Meier method was used to draw the survival curve, and log-rank test was used to analyze the prognostic factors of BCSS in newly diagnosed stage ⅳ breast cancer. Results  A total of 8 407 patients were included in the final analysis. Among them, 5 619 (66.84%) patients were confirmed with bone metastasis only, 1 483 (17.64%) patients with lung metastasis only, 1 096 (13.04%) patients with liver metastasis only, and 209 (2.49%) patients with brain metastasis only. The median follow-up time was 22 months, with 4 180 (49.72%) breast cancer-related deaths and a median BCSS of 39 months in those patients. The location of metastasis in newly diagnosed stage Ⅳ invasive breast cancer was significantly correlated with BCSS (χ2=151.07, P<0.001). Multivariate Cox model analysis showed that the BCSS was worse in patients with liver metastasis [HR=1.34, 95%CI (1.21, 1.49), P<0.001], lung metastasis [HR=1.09, 95%CI (1.04, 1.14), P<0.001] and brain metastases [HR=1.28, 95%CI (1.20, 1.36), P<0.001] than in patients with bone metastases. Further subgroup analysis showed that the BCSS of breast cancer patients with different molecular subtypes and different metastatic sites were also significantly different (P<0.05). Patients with brain and liver metastases in the HR+/HER2 subtype had worse BCSS than those with bone metastases (P<0.001). Patients with brain metastases in the HR+/HER2+ subtype had worse BCSS than those with bone metastases (P=0.001). In HR/HER2+ subtype, the BCSS of patients with liver metastasis, lung metastasis and brain metastasis were worse than that of patients with bone metastasis (P<0.05). In HR/HER2 subtype, the BCSS of patients with brain metastasis and liver metastasis were worse than that of patients with bone metastasis (P<0.05) . Conclusion  The prognosis of newly diagnosed stage ⅳ breast cancer patients with different metastatic sites is different, and the prognosis of different molecular subtypes and different metastatic sites is also different.

Citation: ZHANG Hongying, ZHANG Chao, CHEN Maoshan, SU Xiaohan, TAN Qiao, QIAN Shuangqiang, HOU Lingmi, XIE Shaoli. Analysis of metastatic sites and prognosis of newly diagnosed stage breast cancer patients based on SEER database. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2023, 30(9): 1079-1086. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202306009 Copy

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