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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019

Low Pre-Treatment Count of Circulating Endothelial Progenitors as a Prognostic Biomarker of the High Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence.

Piotr Rhone, Kornel Bielawski, Katarzyna Ziołkowska, Danuta Rość, Barbara Ruszkowska-Ciastek

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Piotr RhoneClinical Ward of Breast Cancer and Reconstructive Surgery, Oncology Centre Professor Franciszka Łukaszczyk Memorial Hospital, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Kornel BielawskiDepartment of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Street: Skłodowskiej-Curie 9, 85-094 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Katarzyna ZiołkowskaDepartment of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Street: Skłodowskiej-Curie 9, 85-094 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Danuta RośćDepartment of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Street: Skłodowskiej-Curie 9, 85-094 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Barbara Ruszkowska-CiastekDepartment of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Street: Skłodowskiej-Curie 9, 85-094 Bydgoszcz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4245-2403
Nicolaus Copernicus University · PL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neoangiogenesis is mediated by circulating bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitors (circulating EPCs). The aim of the study was the quantification of circulating EPCs from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of invasive breast cancer (IBrC) patients by flow cytometry, before and after cancer adjuvant treatment. A total of 88 stage IA-IIB primary IBrC patients were enrolled prospectively. Circulating EPCs with the immune-phenotype CD45-CD34+CD133+CD31+ were assessed. Treatment significantly reduced the number of EPCs/µL in the general IBrC cohort. However, there was a relevant elevation in the number of circulating EPCs after nine months of adjuvant treatment in the group of patients aged ≥ 55 years, of T2 clinical type, with nodal involvement (N1) and Ki67 expression > 15%. Follow-up revealed a significantly higher incidence of disease relapse in breast cancer patients with low pre-treatment circulating EPCs levels compared with those with a high baseline circulating EPCs count. The receiver-operating characteristic curve identified a tumour diameter of 2.1 cm as the best cut-off value to discriminate between disease-relapse subjects and non-relapse disease cases. Our study strongly indicates that, next to tumour diameter and Ki67 expression, circulating bone marrow-derived EPCs may serve as useful markers for predicting therapeutic outcomes as well as a future prognosis.

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adjuvant treatmentangiogenesiscirculating endothelial progenitor cellsinvasive breast cancermetastasis

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PMID31731627
PMCPMC6912643
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