• Department of Breast Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P. R. China;
ZUO Huaiquan, Email: 13982772996@163.com
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Objective To analyze the clinicopathologic features of elderly patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and explore the influencing factors of postoperative prognosis.Methods The TNBC patients who were pathologically confirmed in the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University from January 1st, 2013 to January 1st, 2014 were retrospectively collected. The differences of clinicopathologic characteristics bwteeen elderly and young and middle-aged patients (according to the standard of 65 years old) were analyzed. At the same time, Cox risk regression model was used to analyze the prognostic factors of elderly patients with TNBC.Results A total of 142 patients with TNBC were collected, including 53 elderly patients and 89 young and middle-aged patients. There were no significant differences in terms of family history, histological grade, clinical TNM stage, T stage, axillary lymph node status, and postoperative chemotherapy between the elderly patients and young and middle-aged patients (P>0.05). The rate of breast conserving surgery in the young and middle-aged patients was higher than that in the elderly patients (χ2=4.665, P=0.031). All patients were followed up to 60 months, the recurrence and metastasis rate and the mortality of the elderly patients were lower than those of the young and middle-aged patients (recurrence and metastasis rate: 30.2% versus 47.2%, χ2=3.974, P=0.046; mortality: 11.3% versus 28.1%, χ2=5.474, P=0.019), and the 5-year disease-free survival rate and 5-year overall survival rate of the elderly patients were higher than those of the young and middle-aged patients (5-year disease-free survival rate: 69.8% versus 52.8%, χ2=4.106, P=0.037; 5-year overall survival rate: 88.7% versus 71.9%, χ2=5.209, P=0.022). The tumor T stage (χ2=14.806, P=0.001) and status of axillary lymph node metastasis (χ2=8.149, P=0.043) were associated with postoperative recurrence and metastasis in the elderly patients with TNBC by univariate analysis, and which were the independent risk factors for the recurrence and metastasis in the elderly patients with TNBC by multivariate analysis.Conclusions Prognosis of elderly patients with TNBC is better than that of young and middle-aged patients. Tumor T stage and axillary lymph node status are independent risk factors affecting prognosis of elderly patients with TNBC.

Citation: LIU Xinzhu, ZUO Huaiquan. Analysis of postoperative prognostic factors of elderly patients with triple-negative breast cancer. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2021, 28(3): 341-344. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202006021 Copy

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