TY - JOUR A1 - Wischnewsky, Manfred A1 - Schwentner, Lukas A1 - Diessner, Joachim A1 - De Gregorio, Amelie A1 - Joukhadar, Ralf A1 - Davut, Dayan A1 - Salmen, Jessica A1 - Bekes, Inga A1 - Kiesel, Matthias A1 - Müller-Reiter, Max A1 - Blettner, Maria A1 - Wolters, Regine A1 - Janni, Wolfgang A1 - Kreienberg, Rolf A1 - Wöckel, Achim A1 - Ebner, Florian T1 - BRENDA-Score, a hghly significant, internally and externally validated prognostic marker for metastatic recurrence: analysis of 10,449 primary breast cancer patients JF - Cancers N2 - Background Current research in breast cancer focuses on individualization of local and systemic therapies with adequate escalation or de-escalation strategies. As a result, about two-thirds of breast cancer patients can be cured, but up to one-third eventually develop metastatic disease, which is considered incurable with currently available treatment options. This underscores the importance to develop a metastatic recurrence score to escalate or de-escalate treatment strategies. Patients and methods Data from 10,499 patients were available from 17 clinical cancer registries (BRENDA-project. In total, 8566 were used to develop the BRENDA-Index. This index was calculated from the regression coefficients of a Cox regression model for metastasis-free survival (MFS). Based on this index, patients were categorized into very high, high, intermediate, low, and very low risk groups forming the BRENDA-Score. Bootstrapping was used for internal validation and an independent dataset of 1883 patients for external validation. The predictive accuracy was checked by Harrell's c-index. In addition, the BRENDA-Score was analyzed as a marker for overall survival (OS) and compared to the Nottingham prognostic score (NPS). Results: Intrinsic subtypes, tumour size, grading, and nodal status were identified as statistically significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis. The five prognostic groups of the BRENDA-Score showed highly significant (p < 0.001) differences regarding MFS:low risk: hazard ratio (HR) = 2.4, 95%CI (1.7–3.3); intermediate risk: HR = 5.0, 95%CI.(3.6–6.9); high risk: HR = 10.3, 95%CI (7.4–14.3) and very high risk: HR = 18.1, 95%CI (13.2–24.9). The external validation showed congruent results. A multivariate Cox regression model for OS with BRENDA-Score and NPS as covariates showed that of these two scores only the BRENDA-Score is significant (BRENDA-Score p < 0.001; NPS p = 0.447). Therefore, the BRENDA-Score is also a good prognostic marker for OS. Conclusion: The BRENDA-Score is an internally and externally validated robust predictive tool for metastatic recurrence in breast cancer patients. It is based on routine parameters easily accessible in daily clinical care. In addition, the BRENDA-Score is a good prognostic marker for overall survival. Highlights: The BRENDA-Score is a highly significant predictive tool for metastatic recurrence of breast cancer patients. The BRENDA-Score is stable for at least the first five years after primary diagnosis, i.e., the sensitivities and specificities of this predicting system is rather similar to the NPI with AUCs between 0.76 and 0.81 the BRENDA-Score is a good prognostic marker for overall survival. KW - breast cancer KW - risk KW - prediction KW - BRENDA KW - score KW - follow up Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-241064 SN - 2072-6694 VL - 13 IS - 13 ER - TY - THES A1 - Hartl, Guido T1 - Deskriptive morphologische Beurteilung der Pronukleus- und Embryonalstadien bei der extrakorporalen Befruchtung T1 - Descriptive morphological evaluation of pronucleus- and embryonal stages for the extracorporal fertilizastion N2 - Diese Studie im Rahmen eines IVF/ICSI Programmes beschäftigt sich mit der detaillierten Morphologie der Vorkern- und Embyonalstadien bei der extrakorporalen Befruchtung beim Menschen. Die morphologische Beurteilung der Zygoten und Embryonen während der Eizell- und Embryokultur ist von zentraler Bedeutung für den Erfolg der Behandlung, da damit die Entwicklung vitaler Embryonen vorhergesagt und die Auswahl hochwertiger Embryonen für den Transfer ermöglicht wird. Aufgrund der derzeitigen gesetzlichen Bestimmungen ist in Deutschland nur eine Auswahl von Vorkernstadien, bei denen es noch zu keiner Verschmelzung des weiblichen und männlichen Vorkerns gekommen ist, aber nicht von Embryonen gestattet. Damit kommt der extrakorporalen Befruchtung in Deutschland, im Gegensatz zur Situation in praktisch allen europäischen Ländern, der Beurteilung der Vorkernstadien (Zygoten) am ersten Tag der Kultur eine entscheidende Bedeutung zu. N2 - This study in the setting of a IVF/ICSI program is engaged in the detailled morphological description of pronucleus- and embryonal stages for the extracorporal fertilisation in humans. The morphological judgement of zygotes and embryos during the cultur of oocytes and embryos is of central importance for the success of the treatment, because it is possible to predict the development of vital embryos and select viable embryos for the transfer in the uterus. Due to the legal conditions in germany the choice is only at the stage of zygotes allowed, because the maternal and the paternal pronucleus are not jet merged together. In order to this situation – in contrast to practical all european countries - is the selection of pronuclear stages (zygotes) after one day of culture of decisive importance for programs with extracorporal fertilisation in germany. KW - Vorkerne KW - Beurteilung KW - Auswahl KW - Embryo KW - Blastozyste KW - pronuclear KW - embryo KW - selection KW - score KW - blastocyst Y1 - 2003 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-6431 ER -