title: Comparative performances of prognostic indexes for breast cancer patients presenting with brain metastases.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Several prognostic indexes (PI) have been developed in the brain metastases (BM) setting to help physicians tailor treatment options and stratify patients enrolled in clinical studies. The aim of our study was to compare the clinical relevance of the major PI for breast cancer BM.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical and biological data of 250 breast cancer patients diagnosed with BM at two institutions between 1995 and 2010 were retrospectively reviewed. The prognostic value and accuracy of recursive partitioning analysis (RPA), graded prognostic assessment (GPA), basic score for BM (BS-BM), breast RPA, breast GPA, Le Scodan's Score and a clinico-biological score developed in a phase I study (P1PS) were assessed using Cox regression models. PI comparison was performed using Harrell's concordance index.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After a median follow-up of 4.5 years, median overall survival (OS) from BM diagnosis was 8.9 months (CI 95%, 6.9-10.3 months). All PI were significantly associated with OS. Harrell's concordance indexes C favored BS-BM and RPA. In multivariate analysis, the RPA, Le Scodan's score and GPA were found to be the best independent predictors of OS. In multivariate analysis restricted to the 159 patients with known LDH and proteinemia, RPA 2 and 3, Le Scodan's Score 3 and P1PS 2/3 were associated with worse survival. RPA was the most accurate score to identify patients with long (superior to 12 months) and short (inferior to 3 months) life expectancy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  RPA seems to be the most useful score and performs better than new PI for breast cancer BM.
authors: Department of Radiation Oncology, Val d'Aurelle Cancer Institute, 208 rue des apothicaires, Montpellier 34298, France. Antoine.Braccini@montpellier.unicancer.fr
authors: Antoine-Laurent
authors: AL
authors: Braccini
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Azria
authors: Simon
authors: S
authors: Thezenas
authors: Gilles
authors: G
authors: Romieu
authors: Jean-Marc
authors: JM
authors: Ferreri
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Jacot
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000556:secondary*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011379:Prognosis; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016019:Survival Analysis
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