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ReviewMolecular diagnosis & therapy2021

Luminal Breast Cancer: Risk of Recurrence and Tumor-Associated Immune Suppression.

Benedetta Pellegrino, Zuzana Hlavata, Cristina Migali, Pushpamali De Silva, Marco Aiello, Karen Willard-Gallo, Antonino Musolino, Cinzia Solinas

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Review in Molecular diagnosis & therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 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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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 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

8 authors.

Benedetta PellegrinoDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Str. dell'Università, 12, 43121, Parma, PR, Italy. benedetta.pellegrino@unipr.it.ORCID 0000-0001-9353-7445
Zuzana HlavataDepartment of Medical Oncology, CHR Mons-Hainaut, Avenue Baudouin de Constantinople, n. 5, Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
Cristina MigaliItalian Medicines Agency (AIFA), Rome, Italy.
Pushpamali De SilvaWellman Center for Photomedicine, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Marco AielloMedical Oncology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico San Marco, Catania, Italy.
Karen Willard-GalloMolecular Immunology Unit, Institut Jules Bordet, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Antonino Musolino *Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Str. dell'Università, 12, 43121, Parma, PR, Italy.
Cinzia Solinas *Azienda Tutela della Salute Sardegna, Ospedale A. Segni, Ozieri, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hormone-receptor positive (HR+) breast cancer (BC) (including the luminal A and the luminal B subtypes) is the most common type of tumor in women diagnosed with early-stage BC (EBC). It represents a highly heterogeneous subgroup that is characterized by different risks of relapse. The aim of this review is to discuss the possible role played by the immune response in predicting this risk, along with the most common clinical and pathological factors and molecular tools that have been developed and are already in use. As opposed to what has previously been observed in the most aggressive human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtypes, a high proportion of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs)-reflecting a spontaneous and pre-existing immune response to the tumor-has been linked to a worse prognosis in HR+ EBC. This work provides some immune biological rationale explaining these findings and provides the basics to understand the principal clinical trials that are testing immunotherapy in HR+ (luminal) BC.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNeoplasm StagingPrognosisReceptors, EstrogenReceptors, ProgesteroneReceptors, EstrogenReceptors, Progesterone

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PMID33974235
PMCPMC8249273

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