The Trial Comparing Dose-dense AC-T With TP as Adjuvant Therapy for TNBC With Homologous Recombination Repair Deficiency

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) lack the expression of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor(PR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) , and characterizes an aggressive behavior with higher risk of recurrence and death compared to other breast cancer subtypes. Little therapeutic progress has been made in adjuvant therapy in TNBC during the past decades and the standard of care is still missing. Pre-clinical and clinical data suggest that platinum-based regimens represent an emerging therapeutic option for selected patients with homologous recombination repair deficiency (HRD). The HR system is critical in regulating and maintaining genome stability, and is one of the most commonly altered systems in TNBCs, up to 15-20% TNBC patients carry germline BRCA1/2 mutations. Other HR genes included PALB2, RAD51 etc. Tumors that harbor HRD possess an increased burden of genomic aberrations and lesions, and have been shown to have increased sensitivity to DNA crosslinking agents such as platinum salts. Platinum-based regimens have been encouraging in TNBC patients with HRD, given increases in both pathologic complete response (pCR) rates in neoadjuvant trials and objective response rates(ORR) in metastatic diseases. Further information are needed on how platinum-containing therapies affect long-term outcomes in the adjuvant setting. In this trial, the investigators intend to compare the 3-year disease-free survival (DFS) of dose-dense epirubicin and cyclophosphamide followed by paclitaxel with paclitaxel plus carboplatin as adjuvant therapy in high-risk node-negative or node-positive TNBC patients with HRD. The other purpose of this trial is to observe the participants' tolerance.