CYP2D6 gene variants: association with breast cancer specific survival in a cohort of breast cancer patients from the United Kingdom treated with adjuvant tamoxifen

Tamoxifen is one of the most effective adjuvant breast cancer therapies available. Its metabolism involves the phase I enzyme, cytochrome P4502D6 (CYP2D6), encoded by the highly polymorphic CYP2D6 gene. CYP2D6 variants resulting in poor metabolism of tamoxifen are hypothesised to reduce its efficacy...

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Published in:Breast cancer research : BCR 2010-01, Vol.12 (4), p.R64-R64, Article R64
Main Authors: Abraham, Jean E, Maranian, Mel J, Driver, Kristy E, Platte, Radka, Kalmyrzaev, Bolot, Baynes, Caroline, Luccarini, Craig, Shah, Mitul, Ingle, Susan, Greenberg, David, Earl, Helena M, Dunning, Alison M, Pharoah, Paul D P, Caldas, Carlos
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Language:English
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Adult
Aged
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal - metabolism
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal - therapeutic use
Breast cancer
Breast Neoplasms - drug therapy
Breast Neoplasms - genetics
Breast Neoplasms - pathology
Chemotherapy, Adjuvant - statistics & numerical data
Cohort Studies
Cytochrome P-450
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2D6 - genetics
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2D6 - metabolism
Demographic aspects
Dosage and administration
Drug therapy
Female
Gene Frequency
Genetic aspects
Genetic variation
Genotype
Humans
Middle Aged
Physiological aspects
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Proportional Hazards Models
Risk factors
Survival Analysis
Tamoxifen
Tamoxifen - metabolism
Tamoxifen - therapeutic use
Treatment Outcome
United Kingdom
Young Adult
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Summary:Tamoxifen is one of the most effective adjuvant breast cancer therapies available. Its metabolism involves the phase I enzyme, cytochrome P4502D6 (CYP2D6), encoded by the highly polymorphic CYP2D6 gene. CYP2D6 variants resulting in poor metabolism of tamoxifen are hypothesised to reduce its efficacy. An FDA-approved pre-treatment CYP2D6 gene testing assay is available. However, evidence from published studies evaluating CYP2D6 variants as predictive factors of tamoxifen efficacy and clinical outcome are conflicting, querying the clinical utility of CYP2D6 testing. We investigated the association of CYP2D6 variants with breast cancer specific survival (BCSS) in breast cancer patients receiving tamoxifen. This was a population based case-cohort study. We genotyped known functional variants (n = 7; minor allele frequency (MAF) > 0.01) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (n = 5; MAF > 0.05) tagging all known common variants (tagSNPs), in CYP2D6 in 6640 DNA samples from patients with invasive breast cancer from SEARCH (Studies of Epidemiology and Risk factors in Cancer Heredity); 3155 cases had received tamoxifen therapy. There were 312 deaths from breast cancer, in the tamoxifen treated patients, with over 18000 years of cumulative follow-up. The association between genotype and BCSS was evaluated using Cox proportional hazards regression analysis. In tamoxifen treated patients, there was weak evidence that the poor-metaboliser variant, CYP2D6*6 (MAF = 0.01), was associated with decreased BCSS (P = 0.02; HR = 1.95; 95% CI = 1.12-3.40). No other variants, including CYP2D6*4 (MAF = 0.20), previously reported to be associated with poorer clinical outcomes, were associated with differences in BCSS, in either the tamoxifen or non-tamoxifen groups. CYP2D6*6 may affect BCSS in tamoxifen-treated patients. However, the absence of an association with survival in more frequent variants, including CYP2D6*4, questions the validity of the reported association between CYP2D6 genotype and treatment response in breast cancer. Until larger, prospective studies confirming any associations are available, routine CYP2D6 genetic testing should not be used in the clinical setting.
ISSN:1465-542X
1465-5411
1465-542X
DOI:10.1186/bcr2629