ArticleCancers2023
Prognostic Implications of the Residual Tumor Microenvironment after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patients without Pathological Complete Response.
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- Association of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes with clinical outcomes in patients with triple-negative breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025Pooled it
- Tumor-Intrinsic DNA Damage Signaling Is Associated with MHC-I Expression and CD8 Cytotoxic T-Cell Engagement in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Article
- Plasticity of Non-Apoptotic Residual Tumor Cells After Neoadjuvant Immunochemotherapy: Epigenetic and Microenvironmental Determinants.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Identification of NK cell marker genes based on single-cell sequencing to establish a prognostic signature in breast cancer.Discover oncology · 2025Article
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- The interplay between the immune response and neoadjuvant therapy in breast cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- One-pot method for preparing DNA, RNA, and protein for multiomics analysis.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Analysis of factors influencing the efficacy of NAC and prognosis between HER2-zero and HER2-low HR negative breast cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
- Prognostic relevance of tumor‑infiltrating lymphocytes in residual tumor tissue from patients with triple‑negative breast cancer following neoadjuvant chemotherapy: A systematic review and meta‑analysis.Oncology letters · 2023Article
- Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Expression Is Associated with the Absence of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patients.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Dendritic Cell Subpopulations Are Associated with Morphological Features of Breast Ductal Carcinoma In Situ.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
With a high risk of relapse and death, and a poor or absent response to therapeutics, the triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtype is particularly challenging, especially in patients who cannot achieve a pathological complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). Although the tumor microenvironment (TME) is known to influence disease progression and the effectiveness of therapeutics, its predictive and prognostic potential remains uncertain. This work aimed to define the residual TME profile after NAC of a retrospective cohort with 96 TNBC patients by immunohistochemical staining (cell markers) and chromogenic in situ hybridization (genetic markers). Kaplan-Meier curves were used to estimate the influence of the selected TME markers on five-year overall survival (OS) and relapse-free survival (RFS) probabilities. The risks of each variable being associated with relapse and death were determined through univariate and multivariate Cox analyses. We describe a unique tumor-infiltrating immune profile with high levels of lymphocytes (CD4, FOXP3) and dendritic cells (CD21, CD1a and CD83) that are valuable prognostic factors in post-NAC TNBC patients. Our study also demonstrates the value of considering not only cellular but also genetic TME markers such as MUC-1 and CXCL13 in routine clinical diagnosis to refine prognosis modelling.
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