2022
Treatment Efficacy Score—continuous residual cancer burden-based metric to compare neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy between randomized trial arms in breast cancer trials
Marczyk M, Mrukwa A, Yau C, Wolf D, Chen Y, Balassanian R, Nanda R, Parker B, Krings G, Sattar H, Zeck J, Albain K, Boughey J, Liu M, Elias A, Clark A, Venters S, Shad S, Basu A, Asare S, Buxton M, Asare A, Rugo H, Perlmutter J, DeMichele A, Yee D, Berry D, Veer L, Symmans W, Esserman L, Pusztai L, Consortium I. Treatment Efficacy Score—continuous residual cancer burden-based metric to compare neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy between randomized trial arms in breast cancer trials. Annals Of Oncology 2022, 33: 814-823. PMID: 35513244, DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2022.04.072.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTrial armsExperimental armSurvival differencesExact testPathologic complete response rateClinical trial armsI-SPY2 trialNeoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacyComplete response rateBreast cancer trialsCytotoxic efficacyFisher's exact testImpact of treatmentNeoadjuvant chemotherapyPCR ratePathologic responseResidual cancerControl cohortCancer trialsAssessed associationsChemotherapy efficacyEarly surrogateOlaparib armResponse rateHigher cytotoxic efficacy
2021
Analysis of the Applicability of microRNAs in Peripheral Blood Leukocytes as Biomarkers of Sensitivity and Exposure to Fractionated Radiotherapy towards Breast Cancer
Marczyk M, Polańska J, Wojcik A, Lundholm L. Analysis of the Applicability of microRNAs in Peripheral Blood Leukocytes as Biomarkers of Sensitivity and Exposure to Fractionated Radiotherapy towards Breast Cancer. International Journal Of Molecular Sciences 2021, 22: 8705. PMID: 34445424, PMCID: PMC8395710, DOI: 10.3390/ijms22168705.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBreast cancer patientsExternal beam radiotherapyCourse of radiotherapyPeripheral blood leukocytesBiomarkers of sensitivityLogistic regression modelsMultinomial logistic regression modelsFractionated RadiotherapyInter-individual variabilityCancer patientsUnivariate analysisBreast cancerCombination of miRNAsBeam radiotherapyBlood leukocytesBlood samplesPromising biomarkerTotal doseSensitive biomarkerRadiotherapyPatientsStrong inter-individual variabilityBiomarkersDoseLeukocytes