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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2017

HER2-positive breast cancer is lost in translation: time for patient-centered research.

Isabelle Gingras, Géraldine Gebhart, Evandro de Azambuja, Martine Piccart-Gebhart

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04040686 (Technetium-99m Labeled Anti-HER2 sdAb), which is not on this map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04040686 early_phase1completednot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

Technetium-99m Labeled Anti-HER2 sdAb (99m-Tc-NM-02) for HER2 Expression Detection in Breast Cancer

TypeinterventionalSponsorShanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of MedicineRan2019 to 2022Enrolled10ConditionsBreast CancerArmsInjection of 99mTc-NM-02
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Isabelle GingrasDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, 5400 Boulevard Gouin Ouest, H4J 1C5, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Géraldine GebhartDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B), 1, rue Heger-Bordet, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Evandro de AzambujaMedical Support Team of the Academic Promoting Team (APT), Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B), 1, rue Heger-Bordet, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Martine Piccart-GebhartDepartment of Medicine, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B), 1, rue Heger-Bordet, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

No biomarker beyond HER2 itself, which suffers from a low positive predictive value, has demonstrated clinical utility in breast cancer, despite numerous attempts to improve treatment tailoring for the growing number of anti-HER2 targeted therapies. This prompted us to examine the body of evidence, using a systematic approach, to identify putative predictive biomarkers in HER2-positive breast cancer, and discuss the hitherto failure to address the needs of patients. In the future, it is hoped immune-based biomarkers will predict benefit from anti-HER2 treatments in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings. In advanced-stage disease, the quantification of tumour heterogeneity using molecular-imaging technology has generated informative data on the success or failure of the antibody-drug conjugate T-DM1. Treatment tailoring remains a high priority, in cost-constrained health-care systems, but such tailoring will require a dramatic shift in the way translational research is being conducted, with the establishment of large, easily accessible, and well-annotated databases of candidate predictive biomarkers. Single-centre biomarker research should become a thing of the past.

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Biomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsChemotherapy, AdjuvantClinical Trials as TopicErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesFemaleHumansNeoadjuvant TherapyPrecision MedicineSignal TransductionTranslational Research, BiomedicalTreatment OutcomeBiomarkers, TumorERBB2 protein, humanErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

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