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The currently adopted prognostic factors for ILC are usually borrowed from the ductal histotype, despite the differences in terms of clinico-pathological features and outcome. Thus, the aim of this analysis was to more precisely stratify the prognosis of ILC undergone (neo)adjuvant therapy, and to explore the addition of chemotherapy (CT) to endocrine therapy (ET) in adjuvant setting. Clinico-pathological data of consecutive patients (pts) affected by pure luminal/HER2-negative ILC (stage I-III), undergone surgery, were collected into 2 cohorts according to treatment setting: 1) adjuvant; 2) neoadjuvant. Independent predictors of overall- and disease free- survival (OS/DFS) were investigated with a Cox model, taking into account: 1) a previously validated prognostic score combining clinico-pathological factors (independently predicting the risk of recurrence and death) and clustering pts into 3 classes (low/intermediate/high risk: 2 score) in adjuvant cohort; 2) the pCR and CPS-EG score in neoadjuvant cohort. Data from 471 pts were gathered. Adjuvant/neoadjuvant cohorts: 386/85 pts (median follow up 86 months Interquartile range (IQR) 62-124/96 months IQR 53-130). In the adjuvant cohort, 10-yrs DFS was 85%, 72% and 55% in pts with low, intermediate and high-risk score (p2): the 10-yrs DFS was 51% vs. 38% (p=0.028) and 10-yrs OS 86% vs. 66.2% (p=0.009), respectively. While the combination of clinico-pathological factors is able to discriminate the prognosis of ILC, no predictive role for the benefit of adjuvant CT was found. In the neoadjuvant setting, the CPS-EG score stratifies ILC pts according to outcome, more powerfully than pCR.
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