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ArticleOncotarget2018

Probabilistic graphical models relate immune status with response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer.

Andrea Zapater-Moros, Angelo Gámez-Pozo, Guillermo Prado-Vázquez, Lucía Trilla-Fuertes, Jorge M Arevalillo, Mariana Díaz-Almirón, Hilario Navarro, Paloma Maín, Jaime Feliú, Pilar Zamora and 2 more

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Article in Oncotarget, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Andrea Zapater-MorosMolecular Oncology & Pathology Laboratory, Institute of Medical and Molecular Genetics-INGEMM, La Paz University Hospital-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
Angelo Gámez-PozoMolecular Oncology & Pathology Laboratory, Institute of Medical and Molecular Genetics-INGEMM, La Paz University Hospital-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
Guillermo Prado-VázquezMolecular Oncology & Pathology Laboratory, Institute of Medical and Molecular Genetics-INGEMM, La Paz University Hospital-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
Lucía Trilla-FuertesBiomedica Molecular Medicine SL, Madrid, Spain.
Jorge M ArevalilloOperational Research and Numerical Analysis, National Distance Education University, Madrid, Spain.
Mariana Díaz-AlmirónBiostatistics Unit, La Paz University Hospital-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
Hilario NavarroOperational Research and Numerical Analysis, National Distance Education University, Madrid, Spain.
Paloma MaínDepartment of Statistics and Operations Research, Faculty of Mathematics, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Jaime FeliúMedical Oncology Service, La Paz University Hospital-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
Pilar ZamoraMedical Oncology Service, La Paz University Hospital-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
Enrique EspinosaMedical Oncology Service, La Paz University Hospital-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
Juan Ángel Fresno VaraMolecular Oncology & Pathology Laboratory, Institute of Medical and Molecular Genetics-INGEMM, La Paz University Hospital-IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.

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Abstract

Breast cancer is the most frequent tumor in women and its incidence is increasing. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has become standard of care as a complement to surgery in locally advanced or poor-prognosis early stage disease. The achievement of a complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy correlates with prognosis but it is not possible to predict who will obtain an excellent response. The molecular analysis of the tumor offers a unique opportunity to unveil predictive factors. In this work, gene expression profiling in 279 tumor samples from patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy was performed and probabilistic graphical models were used. This approach enables addressing biological and clinical questions from a Systems Biology perspective, allowing to deal with large gene expression data and their interactions. Tumors presenting complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy had a higher activity of immune related functions compared to resistant tumors. Similarly, samples from complete responders presented higher expression ​​of lymphocyte cell lineage markers, immune-activating and immune-suppressive markers, which may correlate with tumor infiltration by lymphocytes (TILs). These results suggest that the patient's immune system plays a key role in tumor response to neoadjuvant treatment. However, future studies with larger cohorts are necessary to validate these hypotheses.

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breast cancerimmune statusImmunologymolecular subtypesneoadjuvant chemotherapyprobabilistic graphical models

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PMID29963222
PMCPMC6021258

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