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ArticleInternational journal of experimental pathology2017

Androgen and oestrogen receptors as potential prognostic markers for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ treated with surgery and radiotherapy.

Sara Ravaioli, Maria Maddalena Tumedei, Flavia Foca, Roberta Maltoni, Andrea Rocca, Ilaria Massa, Elisabetta Pietri, Sara Bravaccini

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Article in International journal of experimental pathology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. The importance of androgen receptors in breast cancer.Medicine and pharmacy reports · 2021
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  9. Ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast: an update for the pathologist in the era of individualized risk assessment and tailored therapies.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sara RavaioliBiosciences Laboratory, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9395-6452
Maria Maddalena TumedeiBiosciences Laboratory, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy.
Flavia FocaUnit of Biostatistics and Clinical Trials, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy.
Roberta MaltoniDepartment of Medical Oncology, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy.
Andrea RoccaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy.
Ilaria MassaUnit of Biostatistics and Clinical Trials, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy.
Elisabetta PietriDepartment of Medical Oncology, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy.
Sara BravacciniBiosciences Laboratory, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy.
Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a heterogeneous disease that has been investigated less extensively than invasive breast cancer. Women with DCIS are mainly treated with conservative surgery almost exclusively followed by radiotherapy. However, as radiation treatment is not always effective, the search for biomarkers capable of identifying DCIS lesions that could progress to invasive cancer is ongoing. Although conventional biomarkers have been thoroughly studied in invasive tumours, little is known about the role played by androgen receptor (AR), widely expressed in DCIS. A series of 42 DCIS patients treated with quadrantectomy and radiotherapy were followed for a period of up to 95 months. Of these, 11 had recurrent DCIS or progressed to invasive cancer. All tumours were analysed for clinical pathological features. Conventional biomarkers and androgen receptor expression were determined by immunohistochemistry. Our results showed that AR was higher in tumours of relapsed patients than non-relapsed patients (P value: 0.0005). Conversely, oestrogen receptor (ER) was higher, albeit not significantly, in non-relapsed patients than in relapsed patients. AR/ER ratio was considerably different in the two subgroups (P value: 0.0033). Area under the curve (AUC) values were 0.85 for AR and 0.80 for the AR/ER ratio. These preliminary results highlight the potentially important role of both AR and the AR/ER ratio as prognostic markers in DCIS.

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AdultAgedBiomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsCarcinoma, Intraductal, NoninfiltratingFemaleHumansMastectomy, SegmentalMiddle AgedPrognosisRadiotherapy, AdjuvantReceptors, AndrogenReceptors, EstrogenRecurrenceRetrospective StudiesROC CurveBiomarkers, TumorReceptors, AndrogenReceptors, EstrogenAR and AR/ER ratioductal carcinoma in situprognosis

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PMID29193395
PMCPMC5743826
OpenAlexW2769312991

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