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ArticleRomanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie

Assessment of programmed death-ligand 1 receptor immunohistochemical expression and its association with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and p53 status in triple-negative breast cancer.

Mariana Deacu, Liliana Ana Tuţă, Mădălina Boşoteanu, Mariana Aşchie, Anca Florentina Mitroi, Antonela Anca Nicolau, Manuela Enciu, Oana Cojocaru, Lucian Cristian Petcu, Gabriela Izabela Bălţătescu

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Article in Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie. 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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4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mariana DeacuDepartment of Nephrology, Clinical Service of Pathology, Sf. Apostol Andrei Emergency County Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Research and Development of the Morphological and Genetic Studies of Malignant Pathology (CEDMOG), Ovidius University of Constanţa, Romania; tutaliliana@yahoo.com, gabrielabaltatescu@yahoo.com.
Liliana Ana Tuţă
Mădălina Boşoteanu
Mariana Aşchie
Anca Florentina Mitroi
Antonela Anca Nicolau
Manuela Enciu
Oana Cojocaru
Lucian Cristian Petcu
Gabriela Izabela Bălţătescu
Yahoo (Spain) · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) is the second most frequent type of cancer for both sexes combined, after lung cancer. Triple-negative BC (TNBC) molecular subtype is characterized by lack of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) immunoexpression or amplification and represent 10-20% of all BC cases. The issue of the present study was to analyze the associations between programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) immunoexpression and distribution of stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (stTILs) combined with clinico-morphological features of patients with TNBC. Secondly, our research evaluated PD-L1 immunoexpression as a prognostic factor and its correlation with p53 immunoexpression. Thirty cases with primary TNBC without prior neoadjuvant therapy were included in this research. stTILs were identified in all cases, most of them with low distribution (66.7%). A positive immunoreaction for PD-L1 was observed in 40% of cases. The PD-L1 immunoexpression was statistically significant associated with age, pathological tumor size, lymphovascular invasion, stTILs level, the presence of cluster of differentiation 8-positive (CD8+) TILs and p53 immunoexpression. In the present study, a positive PD-L1 immunoexpression was associated with a worse distant metastasis free survival (DMFS). We also found not only that high stTILs level were associated with a better DMFS but also that there was a statistically significant association between stTILs level and PD-L1 immunoexpression. Our results bring new insights to the fine connections between tumor microenvironment and molecular changes of TNBC. It helps us to better understand these aggressive tumors to identify the more useful biomarkers for predicting the response to adjuvant therapy and can represent a method for selecting the most suitable patients for immunotherapy.

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Breast NeoplasmsTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsB7-H1 AntigenBiomarkers, TumorFemaleHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingPrognosisTumor MicroenvironmentTumor Suppressor Protein p53B7-H1 AntigenBiomarkers, TumorTP53 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53

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PMID34609409
PMCPMC8597365
OpenAlexW3204857391

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