Evaluation of lumpectomy surgical specimen radiographs in subclinical, in situ and invasive breast cancer, and factors predicting positive margins

AbstractPurposeTo determine the diagnostic performance of radiological evaluation of the margins of surgical specimens from lumpectomies for subclinical malignant breast lesions.Materials and methodsRetrospective study in two French hospitals including all patients who had a non-palpable in situ (ISDC) or invasive (IDC) ductal carcinoma treated by lumpectomy after radiological localisation. For the analysis, the lesions were divided into two groups depending on the majority component in the definitive histological examination: ISDC or IDC. The radiological margin considered was 10mm.ResultsFor the 178 lumpectomies studied, the sensitivity of the radiographs of the surgical specimen was 33.3% for ISDC and 50% for IDC. The surgical revision rate was 27.41% for ISDC and 12.64% for IDC. The significant predictive factors for positive margins were the radiological size of the lesions (>10mm) for ISDC (P=0.02) and radiologically positive margins for IDC (P=0.01). Correlation was found between the histological and radiological sizes of the lesion for IDC, but not for ISDC.ConclusionRadiological examination of surgical specimens does not provide a satisfactory evaluation of the histological margins, in particular for ISDC, even with a radiological threshold of 10mm

Pharmacological and nutritional targeting of voltage-gated sodium channels in the treatment of cancers

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Time to revise classification of phyllodes tumors of breast? Results of a French multicentric study

OBJECTIVE: To assess prognostic factors of recurrence of phyllodes tumors (PT) of the breast. METHODS: We performed a retrospective, multicentric cohort study, including all patients who underwent breast surgery for grade 1 (benign), 2 (borderline) or 3 (malignant) PT between 2000 and 2016 in five tertiary University hospitals, diagnosed according to World Health Organisation classification. RESULTS: 230 patients were included: 144 (63%), 60 (26%) and 26 (11%) with grade 1, 2 and 3 PT, respectively. Recurrence occurred in 10 (7%), 7 (12%) and 5 (19%) patients with grade 1, 2 and 3 PT, respectively. In univariate analysis, moderate to severe nuclear stromal pleomorphism (HR 8.00 [95% CI: 1.65-38.73], p < 0.009) was correlated with recurrence in all groups including grade 1 (HR 14.3 [95% CI: 1.29-160], p = 0.031). In multivariate analysis, surgical margin >5 mm, (HR 0.20 [95% CI: 0.06-0.63], p = 0.013) were significantly correlated with less recurrence in all PT grades. For grade 1 PT, there was also significantly less recurrence with surgical margin >5 mm, (HR 0.09 [95% CI: 0.01-0.85], p = 0.047) in multivariate analysis. CONCLUSION: The surgical margin should be at least 5 mm whatever the grade of PT. Moderate to severe nuclear stromal pleomorphism identified a subgroup of grade 1 PT with a higher rate of recurrence. This suggests that the WHO classification could be revised with the introduction of nuclear stromal pleomorphism to tailor PT management

Evaluation of beast adipose tissue magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a non invasive biomarker of the nutritional part of Beast cancer risk

La composition en acides gras du tissu adipeux mammaire est reconnue comme marqueur qualitatif de la consommation lipidique antérieure mais aussi de la part nutritionnelle du risque / pronostic du cancer du sein. Ceci ouvre la perspective d’individualiser dans la population générale, un groupe de personnes à risque, susceptibles de bénéficier d’une intervention nutritionnelle ciblée. L’approche du dépistage d’une population à risque par l’utilisation de la composition du tissu adipeux comme biomarqueur se heurte i) à l’aspect invasif que représente le prélèvement d’un fragment de tissu adipeux mammaire, et ii) à la lourdeur contraignante du conditionnement et de l’analyse systématique des acides gras du tissu adipeux. Les méthodes analytiques actuellement disponibles sont incompatibles avec la perspective d’un dépistage de masse. Cependant, les descriptions récentes de l’utilisation de la spectroscopie par résonance magnétique (SRM) pour décrire la composition lipidique des triglycérides du tissu adipeux permettent d’envisager de l’utiliser dans cet objectif. Ce travail de thèse présente: 1) l’évaluation de la SRM pour caractériser la composition en acides gras du tissu adipeux chez l’animal (le rat) suite à une intervention nutritionnelle, 2) l’évaluation du profil lipidique du tissu adipeux par SRM chez la femme sur une plateforme clinique 3T, 3) l’étude des liens entre la composition en acides gras du tissu adipeux et la présentation du cancer du sein, et 4) la comparaison des données de la SRM in vitro (11.7T) et in vivo (3T) du tissu adipeux chez des patientes prises en charge pour un cancer du sein avec les données de la chromatographie gazeuse.Fatty acid composition of the white adipose tissue remains the most reliable qualitative biomarker of previous dietary intake of fatty acids and may provide information on the nutritional part of the risk or evolution of breast cancer. This opens the prospect of individualization of women at high nutritional risk of breast cancer that may benefit from a targeted nutritional intervention but 1) the need for biopsy and 2) subsequent time-consuming biochemical analyses hamper any application of this approach. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) of adipose tissue lipids represents an appealing, non-invasive approach, which could circumvent these limitations. This manuscript reports: 1) an assessment of feasibility of (1H-MRS) to evaluate the consequences of a nutritional intervention in a rat mammary tumor model on the adipose tissue fatty acid composition, 2) an assessment of the feasibility of in vivo measurement of the fatty acid composition of breast adipose tissue by (1H-MRS) on a clinical platform, 3) an assessment of the relation of specific patterns of composition of adipose tissue fatty acids with the presentation of breast cancer, and 4) a comparison with gas chromatography of (1H-MRS) data acquired on breast adipose tissue in vitro (11.7T) and in vivo (3T) on patients managed for breast cancer