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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2025

The interplay between the immune response and neoadjuvant therapy in breast cancer.

Noémie Thomas, Theodoros Foukakis, Karen Willard-Gallo

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Noémie ThomasMolecular Immunology Unit, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussel, Belgium.
Theodoros FoukakisTranslational Breast Cancer Research, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institute, Stokholm, Sweden.
Karen Willard-GalloMolecular Immunology Unit, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussel, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment of early breast cancer is currently experiencing a rapid evolution because of important insight into tumor subtypes and continuous development and improvement of novel therapeutics. Historically considered non-immunogenic, breast cancer has seen a paradigm shift with increased understanding of immune microenvironment, which have revealed extensive heterogeneity in tumor-associated inflammation. Notably, the more aggressive breast cancer subtypes, including triple-negative and HER2-positive, have exhibited favorable responses to combined chemo-immunotherapy protocols. Neoadjuvant therapy has emerged as the standard of care for these tumors, with pathological complete response used as a surrogate endpoint for long-term clinical outcomes and coincidently expediting new drug approval. The neoadjuvant setting affords a unique opportunity for

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breast cancerimmune biomarkerimmune microenvironmentimmune responseneoadjuvant treatmenttumor infiltrating lymphocytes

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PMID40421087
PMCPMC12104209

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