ORR and 6 m PFS were both 5.6% (1/18), with one patient with HR+ breast cancer and a PIK3CA E542K mutation experiencing a partial response (on treatment for 36 weeks).
We attempted to develop a highly sensitive and specific method for the detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) using a digital PCR (dPCR) assay for PIK3CA mutations (i.e., H1047R, E545K, and E542K) in primary breast cancer patients.
This study proposed to investigate the relationship of PIK3CA somatic mutations, the most common activating mutations in human breast cancer (BC), and the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT).Using a novel liquid chip technology,PIK3CA DNA somatic mutations and HER2, PTEN, EGFR mRNA expression profiles were analyzed in formalin fixed paraffin embedded samples of 93 BC patients treated with epirubicin plus docetaxel NCT.PIK3CA mutations were found in 30 patients (32.3%), in which the point mutations of E542K, E545K, H1047L and H1047R were 4.3, 9.7, 4.3 and 14.0%respectively.