2024
Peripheral blood immune parameters, response, and adverse events after neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus durvalumab in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer
Foldi J, Blenman K, Marczyk M, Gunasekharan V, Polanska A, Gee R, Davis M, Kahn A, Silber A, Pusztai L. Peripheral blood immune parameters, response, and adverse events after neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus durvalumab in early-stage triple-negative breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research And Treatment 2024, 208: 369-377. PMID: 39002068, DOI: 10.1007/s10549-024-07426-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchImmune-related adverse eventsTriple-negative breast cancerAssociated with pathological responsePathological complete responseNeoadjuvant chemotherapyCytokine levelsPathological responseAdverse eventsBreast cancerEarly-stage triple-negative breast cancerPatients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitorsB cell clonal expansionMeasured serum cytokine levelsImmune checkpoint inhibitorsGM-CSF levelsPeripheral blood cytokine levelsBlood cytokine levelsSerum cytokine levelsB cell receptorMagnetic bead panelBenjamini-Hochberg correctionSample of patientsImmunoSEQ platformCheckpoint inhibitorsComplete response
2023
Image analysis-based tumor infiltrating lymphocytes measurement predicts breast cancer pathologic complete response in SWOG S0800 neoadjuvant chemotherapy trial
Fanucci K, Bai Y, Pelekanou V, Nahleh Z, Shafi S, Burela S, Barlow W, Sharma P, Thompson A, Godwin A, Rimm D, Hortobagyi G, Liu Y, Wang L, Wei W, Pusztai L, Blenman K. Image analysis-based tumor infiltrating lymphocytes measurement predicts breast cancer pathologic complete response in SWOG S0800 neoadjuvant chemotherapy trial. Npj Breast Cancer 2023, 9: 38. PMID: 37179362, PMCID: PMC10182981, DOI: 10.1038/s41523-023-00535-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPathologic complete responseBreast cancerComplete responseTIL scoreBreast Cancer Pathologic Complete ResponseTumor-infiltrating lymphocyte scoresEvent-free survivalNeoadjuvant chemotherapy trialsLymphocyte measurementsLymphocyte scoreNeoadjuvant chemotherapyChemotherapy trialsMean pretreatmentResidual diseaseTIL quantificationPredictive valuePretreatment samplesResponse discriminationScoresStrong positive correlationPositive correlation
2022
Prediction of pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer (SWOG S0800) using image analysis-based tumor infiltrating lymphocyte measurements.
Blenman K, Fanucci K, Bai Y, Pelekanou V, Nahleh Z, Shafi S, Burela S, Barlow W, Sharma P, Thompson A, Godwin A, Rimm D, Hortobagyi G, Pusztai L. Prediction of pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer (SWOG S0800) using image analysis-based tumor infiltrating lymphocyte measurements. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2022, 40: 594-594. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2022.40.16_suppl.594.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPathologic complete responseBreast cancerNeoadjuvant chemotherapyComplete responseTIL scoreResidual diseaseResponse predictive markersBetter EFSBevacizumab benefitLymphocyte measurementsTIL assessmentFree survivalPredictive markerTIL quantificationInternational guidelinesPretreatment samplesLogistic regressionCancerOutcome discriminationChemotherapyScoresContinuous scoresTumorsClinical adoptionStrong positive correlation
2020
Validation of an immunomodulatory gene signature algorithm to predict response to neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy in patients with primary triple-negative breast cancer.
Iwase T, Pusztai L, Blenman K, Li X, Seitz R, Nielsen T, Schweitzer B, Hout D, Bailey D, Zhang X, Shen Y, Ueno N. Validation of an immunomodulatory gene signature algorithm to predict response to neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy in patients with primary triple-negative breast cancer. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2020, 38: 3117-3117. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2020.38.15_suppl.3117.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPrimary triple-negative breast cancerTriple-negative breast cancerPathological complete responsePD-L1 IHCIM subtypesPredictive valueNeoadjuvant immunochemotherapyBreast cancerPhase I/II trialPretreatment core-needle biopsiesAntigen-presenting immune cellsPossible predictive markerImmune cell populationsImmune cell processesCore needle biopsyNegative predictive valuePositive predictive valueStrong predictive valuePositive likelihood ratioNegative likelihood ratioImmunomodulatory subtypeNeoadjuvant immunotherapyII trialLikelihood ratioComplete response