2020
Sensitive Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Patients Treated for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
Parsons HA, Rhoades J, Reed SC, Gydush G, Ram P, Exman P, Xiong K, Lo CC, Li T, Fleharty M, Kirkner GJ, Rotem D, Cohen O, Yu F, Fitarelli-Kiehl M, Leong KW, Hughes ME, Rosenberg SM, Collins LC, Miller KD, Blumenstiel B, Trippa L, Cibulskis C, Neuberg DS, DeFelice M, Freeman SS, Lennon NJ, Wagle N, Ha G, Stover DG, Choudhury AD, Getz G, Winer EP, Meyerson M, Lin NU, Krop I, Love JC, Makrigiorgos GM, Partridge AH, Mayer EL, Golub TR, Adalsteinsson VA. Sensitive Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Patients Treated for Early-Stage Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 2020, 26: 2556-2564. PMID: 32170028, PMCID: PMC7654718, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-19-3005.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMinimal residual diseaseMetastatic breast cancerDigital droplet PCRBreast cancerTumor mutationsResidual diseaseMRD detectionEarly-stage breast cancerCurative-intent treatmentCohort of patientsEarly-stage diseaseMedian lead timeClinical data collectionWhole-exome sequencingMRD testFirst positive sampleDistant recurrenceMost patientsMetastatic diagnosisStage 0PatientsPlasma samplingClinical sensitivityPatient-specific mutationsCfDNA samples
2019
Aggressive Subsets of Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Singh J, Asad S, Zhang Y, Nock W, Adams E, Damicis A, Ramaswamy B, Williams N, Parsons HA, Adalsteinsson VA, Winer EP, Lin NU, Partridge AH, Overmoyer B, Stover DG. Aggressive Subsets of Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Clinical Breast Cancer 2019, 20: e20-e26. PMID: 31631016, DOI: 10.1016/j.clbc.2019.06.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic triple-negative breast cancerInflammatory breast cancerTriple-negative breast cancerWorse overall survivalYounger patientsOverall survivalBreast cancerIBC groupMetastatic breast cancer subtypesYounger groupFrequent lung metastasisMedian overall survivalSite of metastasisSingle-institution cohortNegative breast cancerBreast cancer subtypesClinicopathologic characteristicsMetastatic diagnosisMetastatic sitesWorse prognosisLung metastasesPoor prognosisSurvival outcomesPrimary diagnosisAggressive subset
2017
Genome-wide copy number analysis of cell-free DNA from patients with chemotherapy-resistant metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.
Stover D, Parsons H, Ha G, Freeman S, Barry W, Guo H, Gydush G, Reed S, Rhoades J, Rotem D, Hughes M, Krop I, Tolaney S, Wagle N, Getz G, Meyerson M, Love J, Winer E, Lin N, Adalsteinsson V. Genome-wide copy number analysis of cell-free DNA from patients with chemotherapy-resistant metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2017, 35: 1092-1092. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.35.15_suppl.1092.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTriple-negative breast cancerMetastatic triple-negative breast cancerCell-free DNAMetastatic TNBCFirst blood drawCopy number alterationsOverall survivalBlood drawBreast cancerPrimary triple-negative breast cancerTumor fractionMedian overall survivalBreast cancer subsetsIndependent prognostic markerPlasma samplesNovel therapeutic targetCopy number analysisNumber alterationsHazard ratioLiver metastasesGenome-wide copy number analysisMetastatic diagnosisBRCA statusPrognostic markerCancer subsets
2008
Sites of distant recurrence and clinical outcomes in patients with metastatic triple‐negative breast cancer
Lin NU, Claus E, Sohl J, Razzak AR, Arnaout A, Winer EP. Sites of distant recurrence and clinical outcomes in patients with metastatic triple‐negative breast cancer. Cancer 2008, 113: 2638-2645. PMID: 18833576, PMCID: PMC2835546, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23930.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic triple-negative breast cancerTriple-negative breast cancerBreast cancerCNS metastasesMedian survivalMetastatic diagnosisSystemic diseaseCentral nervous system recurrenceDana-Farber Cancer InstituteInitial metastatic diagnosisProgressive CNS diseaseOutcomes of patientsNew treatment strategiesRace-adjusted ratesCNS progressionBrain metastasesCNS involvementCNS recurrenceDistant recurrenceMetastatic presentationCNS lesionsClinical outcomesPathology recordsCNS diseaseAggressive subtype