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ArticleTumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine2015

Combined Runx2 and Snail overexpression is associated with a poor prognosis in breast cancer.

Zhengjun Yang, Bin Zhang, Bowen Liu, Yegong Xie, Xuchen Cao

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Article in Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. The Significant Role of RUNX2 Expression in Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2025
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  7. Embryonic transcription factor SOX9 drives breast cancer endocrine resistance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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Zhengjun YangTianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Huanhu West Road, Hexi District, Tianjin, 300060, China.
Bin Zhang
Bowen Liu
Yegong Xie
Xuchen Cao

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of Runx2 and Snail expression in breast cancer. The expression of Runx2 and Snail in clinical specimens from 125 breast cancer patients was detected by immunohistochemistry. The results showed there is a link between Runx2 and Snail expression at protein levels (p = 0.007). The Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that Runx2 or Snail expression was correlated with shortened disease-free survival (DFS) (p = 0.002, p = 0.004, respectively) and overall survival (OS) (p = 0.002, p = 0.009, respectively). In addition, Runx2-positive/Snail-positive patients had the worst DFS and OS (p = 0.001, p < 0.001, respectively). In multivariate survival analysis, Runx2, Snail, and combined Runx2/Snail were still remained as independent prognostic factors for DFS (p = 0.020, p = 0.013, and p = 0.001, respectively) and OS (p = 0.027, p = 0.030 and p = 0.005, respectively). These results suggest that a combined Runx2/Snail expression could be used as a new significant prognostic biomarker for patients with breast cancer.

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