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ArticleScientific reports2019

A Predictor of Pathological Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Stratifies Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients with High Risk of Recurrence.

Marcia V Fournier, Edward C Goodwin, Joan Chen, John C Obenauer, Susan H Tannenbaum, Adam M Brufsky

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Housekeeping genes involved in non-malignant breast phenotypes are widely expressed in multiple cancers and provide novel biomarkers of tumor classification.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Marcia V FournierBioarray Genetics Inc, 400 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT, 06032, USA. marcia.fournier@yahoo.com.
Edward C GoodwinBioarray Genetics Inc, 400 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT, 06032, USA.
Joan ChenRancho Biosciences, 16955 Via Del Campo #220, San Diego, CA, 92127, USA.
John C ObenauerRancho Biosciences, 16955 Via Del Campo #220, San Diego, CA, 92127, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7962-8890
Susan H TannenbaumDivision of Hematology/Oncology, UCONN Health Center, 263 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA.
Adam M BrufskyDivision of Hematology/Oncology, University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, 300 Halket St # 4628, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Bioarray Genetics (United States) · USRancho BioSciences (United States) · USPittsburg State University · USUConn Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We developed a test to predict which patients will achieve pathological complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and which will have residual disease (RD). Gene expression data from pretreatment biopsies of patients with all breast cancer subtypes were combined into a 519-patient cohort containing 177 TNBC patients. Two RNA classifiers of 16 genes each were sequentially applied to the total cohort, classifying patients into 3 distinct classes. The test performance was further validated in an independent 304-patient cohort. The test accurately identified 70.5% (79/112) of pCR and 83.5% (340/407) of RD patients in the total population, and 75.0% (45/60) of pCR and 75.2% (88/117) of RD patients in the TNBC subset. For the independent cohort, the test identified 91.5% RD patients in the total population and 86.2% RD patients in the TNBC subset. However, the identification of pCR in both total and TNBC population are as low as 21.1% and 30%, respectively. The TNBC RD patients were subdivided by our classifiers, with one class showing significantly higher levels of Ki67 expression and having significantly poorer survival rates than the other classes. This stratification of patients may allow predicted residual disease classes to be assigned an alternative therapy.

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Gene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticAdultAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsBiomarkers, TumorErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansMiddle AgedNeoadjuvant TherapyNeoplasm, ResidualPrognosisRecurrenceRemission InductionResearch DesignRNA, NeoplasmBiomarkers, TumorERBB2 protein, humanErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesRNA, Neoplasm

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PMID31619719
PMCPMC6795899
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