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Trial reportBritish journal of cancer2006

Circulating endothelial cells and angiogenic serum factors during neoadjuvant chemotherapy of primary breast cancer.

G Fürstenberger, R von Moos, R Lucas, B Thürlimann, H-J Senn, J Hamacher, E-M Boneberg

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Trial report in British journal of cancer, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
11.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 206 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

G FürstenbergerCenter for Tumor Detection and Prevention, Rorschacherstrasse 150, 9006 St Gallen, Switzerland. gfuerstenberger@sg.zetup.ch
R von Moos
R Lucas
B Thürlimann
H-J Senn
J Hamacher
E-M Boneberg
University of St. Gallen · CHBiotechnology Institute Thurgau · CHUniversity of Konstanz · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circulating endothelial cells (CECs) as well as bone-marrow-derived endothelial precursor cells (EPC) play an important role in neovascularisation and tumour growth. To study the impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on the amounts of CEC and their precursor cells, mature CEC and their progenitors were quantified by flow cytometry in peripheral blood of breast cancer patients during anthracycline and/or taxane based neoadjuvant chemotherapy and subsequent surgery in comparison to age-matched healthy controls. Cell numbers were tested for correlation with serum levels of angiopoietin-2, erythropoietin, endostatin, endoglin, VEGF and sVCAM-1 as well as clinical and pathological features of breast cancer disease. Circulating endothelial cells were significantly elevated in breast cancer patients and decreased during chemotherapy, whereas EPC (CD34+/VEGFR-2+) as well as their progenitor cell population CD133+/CD34+ and the population of CD34+ stem cells increased. Concomitantly with the increase of progenitor cells an increase of VEGF, erythropoietin and angiopoietin-2 was observed. These data suggest that chemotherapy can only reduce the amounts of mature CEC, probably reflecting detached cells from tumour vessels, whereas the EPC and their progenitors are mobilised by chemotherapy. Since this mobilisation of EPC may contribute to tumour neovascularisation an early antiangiogenic therapy in combination with chemotherapy could be beneficial for the success of cancer therapy.

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Endothelial CellsStem CellsAdultAngiogenesis InhibitorsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsBiomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsCase-Control StudiesCell MovementDisease ProgressionFemaleFlow CytometryGrowth SubstancesHumansMaleMiddle AgedAngiogenesis InhibitorsBiomarkers, TumorGrowth Substances

Identifiers

PMID16450002
PMCPMC2361171
OpenAlexW2038647733

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