2022
Tumor immune microenvironment of self-identified African American and non-African American triple negative breast cancer
Marczyk M, Qing T, O’Meara T, Yagahoobi V, Pelekanou V, Bai Y, Reisenbichler E, Cole KS, Li X, Gunasekharan V, Ibrahim E, Fanucci K, Wei W, Rimm DL, Pusztai L, Blenman KRM. Tumor immune microenvironment of self-identified African American and non-African American triple negative breast cancer. Npj Breast Cancer 2022, 8: 88. PMID: 35869114, PMCID: PMC9307813, DOI: 10.1038/s41523-022-00449-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTumor immune microenvironmentImmune microenvironmentTriple-negative breast cancer tissuesTriple-negative breast cancerAfrican AmericansImmune checkpoint inhibitorsTumor mutation burdenNegative breast cancerBreast cancer tissuesImmune-related pathwaysStromal TILsCheckpoint inhibitorsImmune exclusionClinical outcomesPD-L1Self-identified African AmericansCancer patientsImmune infiltrationBreast cancerMutation burdenCancer tissuesPredictive signatureMRNA expressionTherapeutic agentsPatients
2020
Technical Validity of a Customized Assay of Sensitivity to Endocrine Therapy Using Sections from Fixed Breast Cancer Tissue
Lau R, Du L, Chen E, Fu C, Gould R, Marczyk M, Sinn BV, Layman R, Bedrosian I, Valero V, Symmans WF. Technical Validity of a Customized Assay of Sensitivity to Endocrine Therapy Using Sections from Fixed Breast Cancer Tissue. Clinical Chemistry 2020, 66: 934-945. PMID: 32613237, DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/hvaa105.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsQuantiGene PlexConcordance correlation coefficientBreast cancer tissuesParaffin-embedded tissue sectionsEndocrine therapyResection samplesBreast cancerTumor sectionsCancer tissuesStage IIParaffin blocksLin's concordance correlation coefficientTissue sectionsCustomized assayTherapyAnalytical sensitivityFFPE samplesNanoStringFFPE tissuesExpression indexWeekly testsAssaysTissueTechnical validity