2022
Leveraging the Dynamic Immune Environment Triad in Patients with Breast Cancer: Tumour, Lymph Node, and Peripheral Blood
Wall I, Boulat V, Shah A, Blenman KRM, Wu Y, Alberts E, Calado DP, Salgado R, Grigoriadis A. Leveraging the Dynamic Immune Environment Triad in Patients with Breast Cancer: Tumour, Lymph Node, and Peripheral Blood. Cancers 2022, 14: 4505. PMID: 36139665, PMCID: PMC9496983, DOI: 10.3390/cancers14184505.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBreast cancerPeripheral bloodImmune responseAnti-tumor responseSystemic immune responsesBreast cancer patientsPatient selection parametersEnvironment triadImmune profileLymph nodesImmunological featuresCancer patientsPrimary tumorDisease progressionImmune sitesSurvival rateCancerPatientsTumorsOverall responseBloodFuture studiesTreatmentSignificant overall responseMultiple sites
2021
A Novel Immunomodulatory 27-Gene Signature to Predict Response to Neoadjuvant Immunochemotherapy for Primary Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Iwase T, Blenman KRM, Li X, Reisenbichler E, Seitz R, Hout D, Nielsen TJ, Schweitzer BL, Bailey DB, Shen Y, Zhang X, Pusztai L, Ueno NT. A Novel Immunomodulatory 27-Gene Signature to Predict Response to Neoadjuvant Immunochemotherapy for Primary Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Cancers 2021, 13: 4839. PMID: 34638323, PMCID: PMC8508147, DOI: 10.3390/cancers13194839.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPD-L1 expressionNeoadjuvant immunochemotherapyPrimary triple-negative breast cancerTriple-negative breast cancerPrecise predictive biomarkersImmunomodulatory subtypeNovel immunomodulatoryPrimary TNBCTNBC responsePCR ratePredictive biomarkersPrimary tumorIM subtypesBreast cancerImmunochemotherapyLarge cohortTNBCImmunohistochemistryPilot studySubtypesExpressionPCRDurvalumabPatientsCohort
2020
Comparison of PD-L1 protein expression between primary tumors and metastatic lesions in triple negative breast cancers
Rozenblit M, Huang R, Danziger N, Hegde P, Alexander B, Ramkissoon S, Blenman K, Ross JS, Rimm DL, Pusztai L. Comparison of PD-L1 protein expression between primary tumors and metastatic lesions in triple negative breast cancers. Journal For ImmunoTherapy Of Cancer 2020, 8: e001558. PMID: 33239417, PMCID: PMC7689582, DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2020-001558.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPD-L1 positivity ratePD-L1 positivityPD-L1 expressionDifferent metastatic sitesPrimary tumorMetastatic sitesPositivity rateImmune cellsMetastatic lesionsTumor cellsPD-L1 protein expressionTriple-negative breast cancerMore primary tumorsTriple negative breast cancer tumorsPrimary breast lesionsPrimary outcome measureSoft tissueNegative breast cancerLow positivity rateBreast cancer tumorsBone metastasesFoundation MedicineLymph nodesPD-L1Spearman correlation coefficient