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Trial reportGenetic testing and molecular biomarkers2012

Low expression of stathmin in tumor predicts high response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with docetaxel-containing regimens in locally advanced breast cancer.

Xu-Li Meng, Dan Su, Liang Wang, Yun Gao, Yan-Jun Hu, Hong-Jian Yang, Shang-Nao Xie

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Trial report in Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Retrospective analysis of second-line chemotherapy outcomes with paclitaxel or docetaxel in correlation with STMN1 polymorphism in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xu-Li MengDepartment of Breast Cancer Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. mxlmail@126.com
Dan Su
Liang Wang
Yun Gao
Yan-Jun Hu
Hong-Jian Yang
Shang-Nao Xie
Zhejiang Cancer Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsWe performed this retrospective study to evaluate the value of clinicopathological factors and a novel molecular marker stathmin in predicting treatment response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) with docetaxel-containing regimens in patients with locally advanced breast cancer.

methodsFifty-four consecutive locally advanced patients receiving docetaxel-containing NCT between January 2006 and July 2010 in Zhejiang Cancer Hospital were included. The expression levels of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PgR), epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2), and p53 were detected by immunohistochemistry, while expression of stathmin mRNA was measured by Quanti-Gene assay.

resultsThe overall clinical objective response (cOR) rate was 75.9% (41/54) in breast. A total of 34 patients (63.0%) experienced pathological OR (pOR), with pathological complete remission (pCR) rate of 20.4% (11/54) in breast and 16.7% (9/54) in both breast and axilla. In univariate analysis, there were associations of pOR in both breast and axilla with age (p=0.054), ER status (p=0.059), subtypes (p=0.062), p53 (p=0.030), and stathmin expression (three terciles) (p=0.039). Mean expression of stathmin in pOR group was 0.410, compared with that in no response group of 0.556 (p=0.051 by Student's t-test). Similarly, a lower expression of stathmin might represent a higher pCR rate (p=0.061). Moreover, the LOWESS smoothing plot showed the same trend, that is, that tumor with a lower level of stathmin expression had a higher probability of response to docetaxel-containing NCT. After multivariate adjustment, both ER and stathmin remained significant with hazard ratio of 4.58 (95% CI: 1.11-18.94, p=0.036) and 2.94 (95% CI: 1.26-6.86, p=0.012), respectively.

conclusionsIn conclusion, ER and stathmin were independent predictive factors for NCT with docetaxel-containing regimens.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticNeoadjuvant TherapyAdultAntineoplastic AgentsDocetaxelFemaleHumansMiddle AgedRNA, MessengerRNA, NeoplasmStathminTaxoidsAntineoplastic AgentsDocetaxelRNA, MessengerRNA, NeoplasmStathminSTMN1 protein, humanTaxoids

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PMID22480216
PMCPMC3396004
OpenAlexW2029128037

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