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Trial reportBritish journal of cancer2004

Cyclin D1 overexpression is a negative predictive factor for tamoxifen response in postmenopausal breast cancer patients.

M Stendahl, A Kronblad, L Rydén, S Emdin, N O Bengtsson, G Landberg

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Trial report in British journal of cancer, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.

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76citing papers in PubMed
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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 166 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. CDK4/6 Inhibitor Resistance in ER+ Breast Cancer.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

M StendahlDivision of Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Malmö University Hospital, S-20502 Malmö, Sweden.
A Kronblad
L Rydén
S Emdin
N O Bengtsson
G Landberg
Lund University · SEMalmö University · SEUmeå University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antioestrogen treatment by tamoxifen is a well-established adjuvant therapy for oestrogen receptor-alpha (ERalpha) positive breast cancer. Despite ERalpha expression some tumours do not respond to tamoxifen and we therefore delineated the potential link between the cell cycle regulator and ERalpha co-factor, cyclin D1, and tamoxifen response in a material of 167 postmenopausal breast cancers arranged in a tissue array. The patients had been randomised to 2 years of tamoxifen treatment or no treatment and the median follow-up time was 18 years. Interestingly in the 55 strongly ERalpha positive samples with moderate or low cyclin D1 levels, patients responded to tamoxifen treatment whereas the 46 patients with highly ERalpha positive and cyclin D1 overexpressing tumours did not show any difference in survival between tamoxifen and no treatment. Survival in untreated patients with cyclin D1 high tumours was slightly better than for patients with cyclin D1 low/moderate tumours. However, there was a clearly increased risk of death in the cyclin D1 high group compared to an age-matched control population. Our results suggest that cyclin D1 overexpression predicts for tamoxifen treatment resistance in breast cancer, which is line with recent experimental data using breast cancer cell lines and overexpression systems.

Indexed as

AgedAntineoplastic Agents, HormonalBreast NeoplasmsCase-Control StudiesChemotherapy, AdjuvantCyclin D1FemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansImmunohistochemistryMiddle AgedPostmenopausePrognosisRisk FactorsSurvival AnalysisTamoxifenAntineoplastic Agents, HormonalCyclin D1Tamoxifen

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PMID15138475
PMCPMC2409465
OpenAlexW2019695814

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