Publications

2022

Residual cancer burden after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and long-term survival outcomes in breast cancer: a multicentre pooled analysis of 5161 patients.Yau C, Osdoit M, van der Noordaa M, Shad S, Wei J, de Croze D, Hamy AS, Laé M, Reyal F, Sonke GS, Steenbruggen TG, van Seijen M, Wesseling J, Martín M, Del Monte-Millán M, López-Tarruella S, Boughey JC, Goetz MP, Hoskin T, Gould R, Valero V, Edge SB, Abraham JE, Bartlett JMS, Caldas C, Dunn J, Earl H, Hayward L, Hiller L, Provenzano E, Sammut SJ, Thomas JS, Cameron D, Graham A, Hall P, Mackintosh L, Fan F, Godwin AK, Schwensen K, Sharma P, DeMichele AM, Cole K, Pusztai L, Kim MO, van 't Veer LJ, Esserman LJ, Symmans WF. Lancet Oncol. 2022 Jan; 2021 Dec 11. PMID: 34902335.

2021

21-Gene Assay to Inform Chemotherapy Benefit in Node-Positive Breast Cancer.Kalinsky K, Barlow WE, Gralow JR, Meric-Bernstam F, Albain KS, Hayes DF, Lin NU, Perez EA, Goldstein LJ, Chia SKL, Dhesy-Thind S, Rastogi P, Alba E, Delaloge S, Martin M, Kelly CM, Ruiz-Borrego M, Gil-Gil M, Arce-Salinas CH, Brain EGC, Lee ES, Pierga JY, Bermejo B, Ramos-Vazquez M, Jung KH, Ferrero JM, Schott AF, Shak S, Sharma P, Lew DL, Miao J, Tripathy D, Pusztai L, Hortobagyi GN. N Engl J Med. 2021 Dec 16; 2021 Dec 1. PMID: 34914339.
Quantitative assessment of the immune microenvironment in African American Triple Negative Breast Cancer: a case-control study.Yaghoobi V, Moutafi M, Aung TN, Pelekanou V, Yaghoubi S, Blenman K, Ibrahim E, Vathiotis IA, Shafi S, Sharma A, O'Meara T, Fernandez AI, Pusztai L, Rimm DL. Breast Cancer Res. 2021 Dec 14; 2021 Dec 14. PMID: 34906209.
Comparison of Autologous Breast Reconstruction Complications by Type of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Regimen.Olawoyin OM, Mehta S, Chouairi F, Gabrick KS, Avraham T, Pusztai L, Alperovich M. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2021 Dec 1. PMID: 34644277.
A Randomized Trial of Fulvestrant, Everolimus, and Anastrozole for the Front-line Treatment of Patients with Advanced Hormone Receptor-positive Breast Cancer, SWOG S1222.Moore HCF, Barlow WE, Somlo G, Gralow JR, Schott AF, Hayes DF, Kuhn P, Hicks JB, Welter L, Dy PA, Yeon CH, Conlin AK, Balcueva E, Lew DL, Tripathy D, Pusztai L, Hortobagyi GN. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Nov 29; 2021 Nov 29. PMID: 34844978.
Evaluating Serum Thymidine Kinase 1 in Patients with Hormone Receptor-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Receiving First-line Endocrine Therapy in the SWOG S0226 Trial.Paoletti C, Barlow WE, Cobain EF, Bergqvist M, Mehta RS, Gralow JR, Hortobagyi GN, Albain KS, Pusztai L, Sharma P, Godwin AK, Thompson AM, Hayes DF, Rae JM. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Nov 15; 2021 Sep 14. PMID: 34521624.
Alpha-smooth Muscle Actin Expression in the Stroma Predicts Resistance to Trastuzumab in Patients with Early-stage HER2-positive Breast Cancer.Vathiotis IA, Moutafi MK, Divakar P, Aung TN, Qing T, Fernandez A, Yaghoobi V, El-Abed S, Wang Y, Guillaume S, Nuciforo P, Huober J, Di Cosimo S, Kim SB, Harbeck N, Gomez H, Shafi S, Syrigos KN, Fountzilas G, Sotiriou C, Pusztai L, Warren S, Rimm DL. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Nov 15; 2021 Aug 31. PMID: 34465600.
Data augmentation based on waterfall plots to increase value of response data generated by small single arm Phase II trials.Han G, Pusztai L, Hatzis C. Contemp Clin Trials. 2021 Nov; 2021 Oct 9. PMID: 34634476.
Assessment of Residual Cancer Burden and Event-Free Survival in Neoadjuvant Treatment for High-risk Breast Cancer: An Analysis of Data From the I-SPY2 Randomized Clinical Trial.Symmans WF, Yau C, Chen YY, Balassanian R, Klein ME, Pusztai L, Nanda R, Parker BA, Datnow B, Krings G, Wei S, Feldman MD, Duan X, Chen B, Sattar H, Khazai L, Zeck JC, Sams S, Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Rendi M, Sahoo S, Ocal IT, Fan F, LeBeau LG, Vinh T, Troxell ML, Chien AJ, Wallace AM, Forero-Torres A, Ellis E, Albain KS, Murthy RK, Boughey JC, Liu MC, Haley BB, Elias AD, Clark AS, Kemmer K, Isaacs C, Lang JE, Han HS, Edmiston K, Viscusi RK, Northfelt DW, Khan QJ, Leyland-Jones B, Venters SJ, Shad S, Matthews JB, Asare SM, Buxton M, Asare AL, Rugo HS, Schwab RB, Helsten T, Hylton NM, van 't Veer L, Perlmutter J, DeMichele AM, Yee D, Berry DA, Esserman LJ. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 1. PMID: 34529000.
Copy Number Aberration Analysis to Predict Response to Neoadjuvant Anti-HER2 Therapy: Results from the NeoALTTO Phase III Clinical Trial.Venet D, Rediti M, Maetens M, Fumagalli D, Brown DN, Majjaj S, Salgado R, Pusztai L, Harbeck N, El-Abed S, Wang Y, Saura C, Gomez H, Semiglazov VF, de Azambuja E, Huober J, Nuciforo P, Di Cosimo S, Piccart M, Loi S, Rothé F, Sotiriou C. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Oct 15; 2021 Jul 28. PMID: 34321278.
Network propagation-based prioritization of long tail genes in 17 cancer types.Mohsen H, Gunasekharan V, Qing T, Seay M, Surovtseva Y, Negahban S, Szallasi Z, Pusztai L, Gerstein MB. Genome Biol. 2021 Oct 7; 2021 Oct 7. PMID: 34620211.
Ganitumab and metformin plus standard neoadjuvant therapy in stage 2/3 breast cancer.Yee D, Isaacs C, Wolf DM, Yau C, Haluska P, Giridhar KV, Forero-Torres A, Jo Chien A, Wallace AM, Pusztai L, Albain KS, Ellis ED, Beckwith H, Haley BB, Elias AD, Boughey JC, Kemmer K, Yung RL, Pohlmann PR, Tripathy D, Clark AS, Han HS, Nanda R, Khan QJ, Edmiston KK, Petricoin EF, Stringer-Reasor E, Falkson CI, Majure M, Mukhtar RA, Helsten TL, Moulder SL, Robinson PA, Wulfkuhle JD, Brown-Swigart L, Buxton M, Clennell JL, Paoloni M, Sanil A, Berry S, Asare SM, Wilson A, Hirst GL, Singhrao R, Asare AL, Matthews JB, Hylton NM, DeMichele A, Melisko M, Perlmutter J, Rugo HS, Fraser Symmans W, Van't Veer LJ, Berry DA, Esserman LJ. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2021 Oct 5; 2021 Oct 5. PMID: 34611148.
Clinicopathologic and Genomic Landscape of Breast Carcinoma Brain Metastases.Huang RSP, Haberberger J, McGregor K, Mata DA, Decker B, Hiemenz MC, Lechpammer M, Danziger N, Schiavone K, Creeden J, Graf RP, Strowd R, Lesser GJ, Razis ED, Bartsch R, Giannoudis A, Bhogal T, Lin NU, Pusztai L, Ross JS, Palmieri C, Ramkissoon SH. Oncologist. 2021 Oct; 2021 Jun 23. PMID: 34105210.
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. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Sep 28; 2021 Sep 28. PMID: 34638323.
Genomic Determinants of Homologous Recombination Deficiency across Human Cancers.Qing T, Wang X, Jun T, Ding L, Pusztai L, Huang KL. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Sep 12; 2021 Sep 12. PMID: 34572800.
Best Practices for Spatial Profiling for Breast Cancer Research with the GeoMx^® Digital Spatial Profiler.Bergholtz H, Carter JM, Cesano A, Cheang MCU, Church SE, Divakar P, Fuhrman CA, Goel S, Gong J, Guerriero JL, Hoang ML, Hwang ES, Kuasne H, Lee J, Liang Y, Mittendorf EA, Perez J, Prat A, Pusztai L, Reeves JW, Riazalhosseini Y, Richer JK, Sahin Ö, Sato H, Schlam I, Sørlie T, Stover DG, Swain SM, Swarbrick A, Thompson EA, Tolaney SM, Warren SE, On Behalf Of The GeoMx Breast Cancer Consortium. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Sep 4; 2021 Sep 4. PMID: 34503266.
Intra- and Interlaboratory Reproducibility of the Sensitivity to Endocrine Therapy Assay for Stage II/III Breast Cancer.Bossuyt V, Lau R, Young B, Howe JG, Zhao F, Leyland-Jones B, Du L, Foli T, Hatzis C, Symmans WF. Clin Chem. 2021 Sep 1. PMID: 34374711.
Tumor-Specific Major Histocompatibility-II Expression Predicts Benefit to Anti-PD-1/L1 Therapy in Patients With HER2-Negative Primary Breast Cancer.Gonzalez-Ericsson PI, Wulfkhule JD, Gallagher RI, Sun X, Axelrod ML, Sheng Q, Luo N, Gomez H, Sanchez V, Sanders M, Pusztai L, Petricoin E, Blenman KRM, Balko JM. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Jul 27; 2021 Jul 27. PMID: 34315723.
Durvalumab with olaparib and paclitaxel for high-risk HER2-negative stage II/III breast cancer: Results from the adaptively randomized I-SPY2 trial.Pusztai L, Yau C, Wolf DM, Han HS, Du L, Wallace AM, String-Reasor E, Boughey JC, Chien AJ, Elias AD, Beckwith H, Nanda R, Albain KS, Clark AS, Kemmer K, Kalinsky K, Isaacs C, Thomas A, Shatsky R, Helsten TL, Forero-Torres A, Liu MC, Brown-Swigart L, Petricoin EF, Wulfkuhle JD, Asare SM, Wilson A, Singhrao R, Sit L, Hirst GL, Berry S, Sanil A, Asare AL, Matthews JB, Perlmutter J, Melisko M, Rugo HS, Schwab RB, Symmans WF, Yee D, Van't Veer LJ, Hylton NM, DeMichele AM, Berry DA, Esserman LJ. Cancer Cell. 2021 Jul 12; 2021 Jun 17. PMID: 34143979.
Optimal Management for Residual Disease Following Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy.Foldi J, Rozenblit M, Park TS, Knowlton CA, Golshan M, Moran M, Pusztai L. Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2021 Jul 2; 2021 Jul 2. PMID: 34213636.
Neoadjuvant endocrine therapy use in early stage breast cancer during the covid-19 pandemic.Park KU, Gregory M, Bazan J, Lustberg M, Rosenberg S, Blinder V, Sharma P, Pusztai L, Shen C, Partridge A, Thompson A. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2021 Jul; 2021 Mar 2. PMID: 33651271.
Treatment scheduling effects on the evolution of drug resistance in heterogeneous cancer cell populations.Patwardhan GA, Marczyk M, Wali VB, Stern DF, Pusztai L, Hatzis C. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2021 May 26; 2021 May 26. PMID: 34040000.
Diverse immune response of DNA damage repair-deficient tumors.Qing T, Jun T, Lindblad KE, Lujambio A, Marczyk M, Pusztai L, Huang KL. Cell Rep Med. 2021 May 18; 2021 May 18. PMID: 34095878.
Whole-genome sequencing of phenotypically distinct inflammatory breast cancers reveals similar genomic alterations to non-inflammatory breast cancers.Li X, Kumar S, Harmanci A, Li S, Kitchen RR, Zhang Y, Wali VB, Reddy SM, Woodward WA, Reuben JM, Rozowsky J, Hatzis C, Ueno NT, Krishnamurthy S, Pusztai L, Gerstein M. Genome Med. 2021 Apr 26; 2021 Apr 26. PMID: 33902690.
Comparison of programmed death-ligand 1 protein expression between primary and metastatic lesions in patients with lung cancer.Moutafi MK, Tao W, Huang R, Haberberger J, Alexander B, Ramkissoon S, Ross JS, Syrigos K, Wei W, Pusztai L, Rimm DL, Vathiotis IA. J Immunother Cancer. 2021 Apr. PMID: 33833050.
Endocrine-Based Treatments in Clinically-Relevant Subgroups of Hormone Receptor-Positive/HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Schettini F, Giuliano M, Giudici F, Conte B, De Placido P, Venturini S, Rognoni C, Di Leo A, Locci M, Jerusalem G, Del Mastro L, Puglisi F, Conte P, De Laurentiis M, Pusztai L, Rimawi MF, Schiff R, Arpino G, De Placido S, Prat A, Generali D. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Mar 22; 2021 Mar 22. PMID: 33810205.
The Way of the Future: Personalizing Treatment Plans Through Technology.Liefaard MC, Lips EH, Wesseling J, Hylton NM, Lou B, Mansi T, Pusztai L. Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book. 2021 Mar. PMID: 33793316.
Neoadjuvant durvalumab plus weekly nab-paclitaxel and dose-dense doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide in triple-negative breast cancer.Foldi J, Silber A, Reisenbichler E, Singh K, Fischbach N, Persico J, Adelson K, Katoch A, Horowitz N, Lannin D, Chagpar A, Park T, Marczyk M, Frederick C, Burrello T, Ibrahim E, Qing T, Bai Y, Blenman K, Rimm DL, Pusztai L. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2021 Feb 8; 2021 Feb 8. PMID: 33558513.
Targeted RNAseq assay incorporating unique molecular identifiers for improved quantification of gene expression signatures and transcribed mutation fraction in fixed tumor samples.Fu C, Marczyk M, Samuels M, Trevarton AJ, Qu J, Lau R, Du L, Pappas T, Sinn BV, Gould RE, Pusztai L, Hatzis C, Symmans WF. BMC Cancer. 2021 Feb 4; 2021 Feb 4. PMID: 33541297.
Expected Medium- and Long-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Oncology.Onesti CE, Tagliamento M, Curigliano G, Harbeck N, Bartsch R, Wildiers H, Tjan-Heijnen V, Martin M, Rottey S, Generali D, Campone M, Cristofanilli M, Pusztai L, Peeters M, Berchem G, Cortes J, Ruhstaller T, Ciruelos E, Rugo HS, Jerusalem G. JCO Glob Oncol. 2021 Feb. PMID: 33529077.
Patterns of treatment with everolimus exemestane in hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer in the era of targeted therapy.Rozenblit M, Mun S, Soulos P, Adelson K, Pusztai L, Mougalian S. Breast Cancer Res. 2021 Jan 29; 2021 Jan 29. PMID: 33514405.

2020

Cost-Effectiveness of Neoadjuvant-Adjuvant Treatment Strategies for Women With ERBB2 (HER2)-Positive Breast Cancer.Kunst N, Wang SY, Hood A, Mougalian SS, DiGiovanna MP, Adelson K, Pusztai L. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Nov 2; 2020 Nov 2. PMID: 33226431.
Increasing accrual of minority patients in breast cancer clinical trials.Trant AA, Walz L, Allen W, DeJesus J, Hatzis C, Silber A. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Nov; 2020 Aug 25. PMID: 32840699.
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. J Immunother Cancer. 2020 Nov. PMID: 33239417.
Overall Survival of CDK4/6-Inhibitor-Based Treatments in Clinically Relevant Subgroups of Metastatic Breast Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Schettini F, Giudici F, Giuliano M, Cristofanilli M, Arpino G, Del Mastro L, Puglisi F, De Placido S, Paris I, De Placido P, Venturini S, De Laurentis M, Conte P, Juric D, Llombart-Cussac A, Pusztai L, Prat A, Jerusalem G, Di Leo A, Generali D. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2020 Nov 1. PMID: 32407488.
Biomarkers in Breast Cancer: An Integrated Analysis of Comprehensive Genomic Profiling and PD-L1 Immunohistochemistry Biomarkers in 312 Patients with Breast Cancer.Huang RSP, Li X, Haberberger J, Sokol E, Severson E, Duncan DL, Hemmerich A, Edgerly C, Williams E, Elvin J, Vergilio JA, Killian JK, Lin D, Hiemenz M, Xiao J, McEwan D, Holmes O, Danziger N, Erlich R, Frampton G, Cohen MB, McGregor K, Reddy P, Cardeiro D, Anhorn R, Venstrom J, Alexander B, Brown C, Pusztai L, Ross JS, Ramkissoon SH. Oncologist. 2020 Nov; 2020 Sep 14. PMID: 32869930.
PD-L1 Protein Expression on Both Tumor Cells and Macrophages are Associated with Response to Neoadjuvant Durvalumab with Chemotherapy in Triple-negative Breast Cancer.Ahmed FS, Gaule P, McGuire J, Patel K, Blenman K, Pusztai L, Rimm DL. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Oct 15; 2020 Jul 24. PMID: 32709714.
Text Messaging to Increase Compliance with Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer.Pusztai L, Taylor R, Mougalian SS. Cancer Cell. 2020 Sep 14. PMID: 32931742.
Multi-Omics Investigation of Innate Navitoclax Resistance in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells.Marczyk M, Patwardhan GA, Zhao J, Qu R, Li X, Wali VB, Gupta AK, Pillai MM, Kluger Y, Yan Q, Hatzis C, Pusztai L, Gunasekharan V. Cancers (Basel). 2020 Sep 8; 2020 Sep 8. PMID: 32911681.
Association of Event-Free and Distant Recurrence-Free Survival With Individual-Level Pathologic Complete Response in Neoadjuvant Treatment of Stages 2 and 3 Breast Cancer: Three-Year Follow-up Analysis for the I-SPY2 Adaptively Randomized Clinical Trial.Yee D, DeMichele AM, Yau C, Isaacs C, Symmans WF, Albain KS, Chen YY, Krings G, Wei S, Harada S, Datnow B, Fadare O, Klein M, Pambuccian S, Chen B, Adamson K, Sams S, Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Magliocco A, Feldman M, Rendi M, Sattar H, Zeck J, Ocal IT, Tawfik O, LeBeau LG, Sahoo S, Vinh T, Chien AJ, Forero-Torres A, Stringer-Reasor E, Wallace AM, Pusztai L, Boughey JC, Ellis ED, Elias AD, Lu J, Lang JE, Han HS, Clark AS, Nanda R, Northfelt DW, Khan QJ, Viscusi RK, Euhus DM, Edmiston KK, Chui SY, Kemmer K, Park JW, Liu MC, Olopade O, Leyland-Jones B, Tripathy D, Moulder SL, Rugo HS, Schwab R, Lo S, Helsten T, Beckwith H, Haugen P, Hylton NM, Van't Veer LJ, Perlmutter J, Melisko ME, Wilson A, Peterson G, Asare AL, Buxton MB, Paoloni M, Clennell JL, Hirst GL, Singhrao R, Steeg K, Matthews JB, Asare SM, Sanil A, Berry SM, Esserman LJ, Berry DA. JAMA Oncol. 2020 Sep 1. PMID: 32701140.
Prospective multi-institutional evaluation of pathologist assessment of PD-L1 assays for patient selection in triple negative breast cancer.Reisenbichler ES, Han G, Bellizzi A, Bossuyt V, Brock J, Cole K, Fadare O, Hameed O, Hanley K, Harrison BT, Kuba MG, Ly A, Miller D, Podoll M, Roden AC, Singh K, Sanders MA, Wei S, Wen H, Pelekanou V, Yaghoobi V, Ahmed F, Pusztai L, Rimm DL. Mod Pathol. 2020 Sep; 2020 Apr 16. PMID: 32300181.
Immunological Differences Between Immune-Rich Estrogen Receptor-Positive and Immune-Rich Triple-Negative Breast Cancers.O'Meara T, Marczyk M, Qing T, Yaghoobi V, Blenman K, Cole K, Pelekanou V, Rimm DL, Pusztai L. JCO Precis Oncol. 2020; 2020 Jun 26. PMID: 32923897.
Germline variant burden in cancer genes correlates with age at diagnosis and somatic mutation burden.Qing T, Mohsen H, Marczyk M, Ye Y, O'Meara T, Zhao H, Townsend JP, Gerstein M, Hatzis C, Kluger Y, Pusztai L. Nat Commun. 2020 May 15; 2020 May 15. PMID: 32415133.
Pitfalls in assessing stromal tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (sTILs) in breast cancer.Kos Z, Roblin E, Kim RS, Michiels S, Gallas BD, Chen W, van de Vijver KK, Goel S, Adams S, Demaria S, Viale G, Nielsen TO, Badve SS, Symmans WF, Sotiriou C, Rimm DL, Hewitt S, Denkert C, Loibl S, Luen SJ, Bartlett JMS, Savas P, Pruneri G, Dillon DA, Cheang MCU, Tutt A, Hall JA, Kok M, Horlings HM, Madabhushi A, van der Laak J, Ciompi F, Laenkholm AV, Bellolio E, Gruosso T, Fox SB, Araya JC, Floris G, Hudeček J, Voorwerk L, Beck AH, Kerner J, Larsimont D, Declercq S, Van den Eynden G, Pusztai L, Ehinger A, Yang W, AbdulJabbar K, Yuan Y, Singh R, Hiley C, Bakir MA, Lazar AJ, Naber S, Wienert S, Castillo M, Curigliano G, Dieci MV, André F, Swanton C, Reis-Filho J, Sparano J, Balslev E, Chen IC, Stovgaard EIS, Pogue-Geile K, Blenman KRM, Penault-Llorca F, Schnitt S, Lakhani SR, Vincent-Salomon A, Rojo F, Braybrooke JP, Hanna MG, Soler-Monsó MT, Bethmann D, Castaneda CA, Willard-Gallo K, Sharma A, Lien HC, Fineberg S, Thagaard J, Comerma L, Gonzalez-Ericsson P, Brogi E, Loi S, Saltz J, Klaushen F, Cooper L, Amgad M, Moore DA, Salgado R. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2020; 2020 May 12. PMID: 32411819.
Effect of Pembrolizumab Plus Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Pathologic Complete Response in Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer: An Analysis of the Ongoing Phase 2 Adaptively Randomized I-SPY2 Trial.Nanda R, Liu MC, Yau C, Shatsky R, Pusztai L, Wallace A, Chien AJ, Forero-Torres A, Ellis E, Han H, Clark A, Albain K, Boughey JC, Jaskowiak NT, Elias A, Isaacs C, Kemmer K, Helsten T, Majure M, Stringer-Reasor E, Parker C, Lee MC, Haddad T, Cohen RN, Asare S, Wilson A, Hirst GL, Singhrao R, Steeg K, Asare A, Matthews JB, Berry S, Sanil A, Schwab R, Symmans WF, van 't Veer L, Yee D, DeMichele A, Hylton NM, Melisko M, Perlmutter J, Rugo HS, Berry DA, Esserman LJ. JAMA Oncol. 2020 May 1. PMID: 32053137.
Analysis of Pre- and Posttreatment Tissues from the SWOG S0800 Trial Reveals an Effect of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on the Breast Cancer Genome.Powles RL, Wali VB, Li X, Barlow WE, Nahleh Z, Thompson AM, Godwin AK, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Apr 15; 2020 Jan 9. PMID: 31919134.
Pembrolizumab for Early Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Schmid P, Cortes J, Pusztai L, McArthur H, Kümmel S, Bergh J, Denkert C, Park YH, Hui R, Harbeck N, Takahashi M, Foukakis T, Fasching PA, Cardoso F, Untch M, Jia L, Karantza V, Zhao J, Aktan G, Dent R, O'Shaughnessy J. N Engl J Med. 2020 Feb 27. PMID: 32101663.
Early Modulation of Circulating MicroRNAs Levels in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Trastuzumab-Based Neoadjuvant Therapy.Di Cosimo S, Appierto V, Pizzamiglio S, Silvestri M, Baselga J, Piccart M, Huober J, Izquierdo M, de la Pena L, Hilbers FS, de Azambuja E, Untch M, Pusztai L, Pritchard K, Nuciforo P, Vincent-Salomon A, Symmans F, Apolone G, de Braud FG, Iorio MV, Verderio P, Daidone MG. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Feb 18; 2020 Feb 18. PMID: 32085669.

2019

Validation of the DNA Damage Immune Response Signature in Patients With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer From the SWOG 9313c Trial.Sharma P, Barlow WE, Godwin AK, Parkes EE, Knight LA, Walker SM, Kennedy RD, Harkin DP, Logan GE, Steele CJ, Lambe SM, Badve S, Gökmen-Polar Y, Pathak HB, Isakova K, Linden HM, Porter P, Pusztai L, Thompson AM, Tripathy D, Hortobagyi GN, Hayes DF. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Dec 20; 2019 Oct 28. PMID: 31657982.
Identification of a novel MYOC variant in a Hispanic family with early-onset primary open-angle glaucoma with elevated intraocular pressure.Criscione J, Ji W, Jeffries L, McGrath JM, Soloway S, Pusztai L, Lakhani S. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2019 Dec; 2019 Dec 13. PMID: 31653660.
CD36-Mediated Metabolic Rewiring of Breast Cancer Cells Promotes Resistance to HER2-Targeted Therapies.Feng WW, Wilkins O, Bang S, Ung M, Li J, An J, Del Genio C, Canfield K, DiRenzo J, Wells W, Gaur A, Robey RB, Guo JY, Powles RL, Sotiriou C, Pusztai L, Febbraio M, Cheng C, Kinlaw WB, Kurokawa M. Cell Rep. 2019 Dec 10. PMID: 31825825.
The impact of RNA extraction method on accurate RNA sequencing from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues.Marczyk M, Fu C, Lau R, Du L, Trevarton AJ, Sinn BV, Gould RE, Pusztai L, Hatzis C, Symmans WF. BMC Cancer. 2019 Dec 5; 2019 Dec 5. PMID: 31805884.
Identification and Validation of a Novel Biologics Target in Triple Negative Breast Cancer.Wali VB, Patwardhan GA, Pelekanou V, Karn T, Cao J, Ocana A, Yan Q, Nelson B, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. Sci Rep. 2019 Oct 17; 2019 Oct 17. PMID: 31624295.
The impact of communication style on patient satisfaction.Trant AA, Szekely B, Mougalian SS, DiGiovanna MP, Sanft T, Hofstatter E, Silber A, Adelson KB, Chagpar A, Killelea B, Horowitz N, Lannin D, Park T, Corso M, Abraham G, Pollard-Murphy K, Sturrock T, Knill-Selby E, Western A, Servodidio C, Tasoulis MK, Healy B, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019 Jul; 2019 Apr 25. PMID: 31025271.
Examining the cost-effectiveness of baseline left ventricular function assessment among breast cancer patients undergoing anthracycline-based therapy.Abu-Khalaf MM, Safonov A, Stratton J, Wang S, Hatzis C, Park E, Pusztai L, Gross CP, Russell R. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019 Jul; 2019 Apr 24. PMID: 31020471.
Changing frameworks in treatment sequencing of triple-negative and HER2-positive, early-stage breast cancers.Pusztai L, Foldi J, Dhawan A, DiGiovanna MP, Mamounas EP. Lancet Oncol. 2019 Jul. PMID: 31267973.
Reanalysis of the NCCN PD-L1 companion diagnostic assay study for lung cancer in the context of PD-L1 expression findings in triple-negative breast cancer.Rimm DL, Han G, Taube JM, Yi ES, Bridge JA, Flieder DB, Homer R, Roden AC, Hirsch FR, Wistuba II, Pusztai L. Breast Cancer Res. 2019 Jun 13; 2019 Jun 13. PMID: 31196152.
Defining Risk of Late Recurrence in Early-Stage Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Clinical Versus Molecular Tools.Foldi J, O'Meara T, Marczyk M, Sanft T, Silber A, Pusztai L. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Jun 1; 2019 Apr 3. PMID: 30943126.
SET_ER/PR: a robust 18-gene predictor for sensitivity to endocrine therapy for metastatic breast cancer.Sinn BV, Fu C, Lau R, Litton J, Tsai TH, Murthy R, Tam A, Andreopoulou E, Gong Y, Murthy R, Gould R, Zhang Y, King TA, Viale A, Andrade V, Giri D, Salgado R, Laios I, Sotiriou C, Marginean EC, Kwiatkowski DN, Layman RM, Booser D, Hatzis C, Vicente Valero V, Fraser Symmans W. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2019; 2019 May 30. PMID: 31231679.
Genomic and Immune Profiling of a Patient With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer That Progressed During Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Plus PD-L1 Blockade.Casadevall D, Li X, Powles RL, Wali VB, Buza N, Pelekanou V, Dhawan A, Foldi J, Szekely B, Lopez-Giraldez F, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. JCO Precis Oncol. 2019; 2019 May 10. PMID: 32914041.
Immune microenvironment of triple-negative breast cancer in African-American and Caucasian women.O'Meara T, Safonov A, Casadevall D, Qing T, Silber A, Killelea B, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019 May; 2019 Feb 6. PMID: 30725384.
Immune profiling of pre- and post-treatment breast cancer tissues from the SWOG S0800 neoadjuvant trial.Li X, Warren S, Pelekanou V, Wali V, Cesano A, Liu M, Danaher P, Elliott N, Nahleh ZA, Hayes DF, Hortobagyi GN, Barlow WE, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. J Immunother Cancer. 2019 Apr 10; 2019 Apr 10. PMID: 30967156.
Breast cancer patients with brain metastasis undergoing GKRS.Abu-Khalaf M, Muralikrishnan S, Hatzis C, Canchi D, Yu JB, Chiang V. Breast Cancer. 2019 Mar; 2018 Sep 4. PMID: 30182250.
Immunotherapy and targeted therapy combinations in metastatic breast cancer.Esteva FJ, Hubbard-Lucey VM, Tang J, Pusztai L. Lancet Oncol. 2019 Mar. PMID: 30842061.
Long-Term Survival of De Novo Stage IV Human Epidermal Growth Receptor 2 (HER2) Positive Breast Cancers Treated with HER2-Targeted Therapy.Wong Y, Raghavendra AS, Hatzis C, Irizarry JP, Vega T, Horowitz N, Barcenas CH, Chavez-MacGregor M, Valero V, Tripathy D, Pusztai L, Murthy RK. Oncologist. 2019 Mar; 2018 Aug 23. PMID: 30139836.

2018

CD68, CD163, and matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) co-localization in breast tumor microenvironment predicts survival differently in ER-positive and -negative cancers.Pelekanou V, Villarroel-Espindola F, Schalper KA, Pusztai L, Rimm DL. Breast Cancer Res. 2018 Dec 17; 2018 Dec 17. PMID: 30558648.
TQuest, A Web-Based Platform to Enable Precision Medicine by Linking a Tumor's Genetic Defects to Therapeutic Options.Gershkovich P, Platt J, Knopf J, Tasoulis MK, Shi W, Pusztai L, Hatzis C. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2018 Dec. PMID: 30652574.
Reliability of Whole-Exome Sequencing for Assessing Intratumor Genetic Heterogeneity.Shi W, Ng CKY, Lim RS, Jiang T, Kumar S, Li X, Wali VB, Piscuoglio S, Gerstein MB, Chagpar AB, Weigelt B, Pusztai L, Reis-Filho JS, Hatzis C. Cell Rep. 2018 Nov 6. PMID: 30404001.
Immunological differences between primary and metastatic breast cancer.Szekely B, Bossuyt V, Li X, Wali VB, Patwardhan GA, Frederick C, Silber A, Park T, Harigopal M, Pelekanou V, Zhang M, Yan Q, Rimm DL, Bianchini G, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. Ann Oncol. 2018 Nov 1. PMID: 30203045.
Randomized controlled trial of weight loss versus usual care on telomere length in women with breast cancer: the lifestyle, exercise, and nutrition (LEAN) study.Sanft T, Usiskin I, Harrigan M, Cartmel B, Lu L, Li FY, Zhou Y, Chagpar A, Ferrucci LM, Pusztai L, Irwin ML. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Nov; 2018 Jul 30. PMID: 30062572.
Association of T-Cell Receptor Repertoire Use With Response to Combined Trastuzumab-Lapatinib Treatment of HER2-Positive Breast Cancer: Secondary Analysis of the NeoALTTO Randomized Clinical Trial.Powles RL, Redmond D, Sotiriou C, Loi S, Fumagalli D, Nuciforo P, Harbeck N, de Azambuja E, Sarp S, Di Cosimo S, Huober J, Baselga J, Piccart-Gebhart M, Elemento O, Pusztai L, Hatzis C. JAMA Oncol. 2018 Nov 1; 2018 Nov 8. PMID: 29902299.
Phase II Study of Taselisib (GDC-0032) in Combination with Fulvestrant in Patients with HER2-Negative, Hormone Receptor-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer.Dickler MN, Saura C, Richards DA, Krop IE, Cervantes A, Bedard PL, Patel MR, Pusztai L, Oliveira M, Cardenas AK, Cui N, Wilson TR, Stout TJ, Wei MC, Hsu JY, Baselga J. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Sep 15; 2018 May 23. PMID: 29793946.
Increased epigenetic age in normal breast tissue from luminal breast cancer patients.Hofstatter EW, Horvath S, Dalela D, Gupta P, Chagpar AB, Wali VB, Bossuyt V, Storniolo AM, Hatzis C, Patwardhan G, Von Wahlde MK, Butler M, Epstein L, Stavris K, Sturrock T, Au A, Kwei S, Pusztai L. Clin Epigenetics. 2018 Aug 29; 2018 Aug 29. PMID: 30157950.
Exercise and weight loss interventions and miRNA expression in women with breast cancer.Adams BD, Arem H, Hubal MJ, Cartmel B, Li F, Harrigan M, Sanft T, Cheng CJ, Pusztai L, Irwin ML. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Jul; 2018 Mar 6. PMID: 29511965.
First international TNBC conference meeting report.Rida P, Ogden A, Ellis IO, Varga Z, Wolff AC, Traina TA, Hatzis C, Palmer JR, Ambrosone CB, Lehmann BD, Nanda R, Montgomery Rice V, Brawley OW, Torres MA, Rakha E, Aneja R. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Jun; 2018 Feb 8. PMID: 29417299.
Single-arm, neoadjuvant, phase II trial of pertuzumab and trastuzumab administered concomitantly with weekly paclitaxel followed by 5-fluoruracil, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide (FEC) for stage I-III HER2-positive breast cancer.Foldi J, Mougalian S, Silber A, Lannin D, Killelea B, Chagpar A, Horowitz N, Frederick C, Rispoli L, Burrello T, Abu-Khalaf M, Sabbath K, Sanft T, Brandt DS, Hofstatter EW, Hatzis C, DiGiovanna MP, Pusztai L. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Jun; 2018 Feb 2. PMID: 29396664.
Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes and PD-L1 Expression in Pre- and Posttreatment Breast Cancers in the SWOG S0800 Phase II Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Trial.Pelekanou V, Barlow WE, Nahleh ZA, Wasserman B, Lo YC, von Wahlde MK, Hayes D, Hortobagyi GN, Gralow J, Tripathy D, Porter P, Szekely B, Hatzis C, Rimm DL, Pusztai L. Mol Cancer Ther. 2018 Jun; 2018 Mar 27. PMID: 29588392.
Incorporating Genomics Into the Care of Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer.Kratz J, Burkard M, O'Meara T, Pusztai L, Veitch Z, Bedard PL. Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book. 2018 May 23. PMID: 30231387.
Comparison of Residual Risk-Based Eligibility vs Tumor Size and Nodal Status for Power Estimates in Adjuvant Trials of Breast Cancer Therapies.Wei W, Kurita T, Hess KR, Sanft T, Szekely B, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. JAMA Oncol. 2018 Apr 12; 2018 Apr 12. PMID: 29372234.
An integrative bioinformatics approach reveals coding and non-coding gene variants associated with gene expression profiles and outcome in breast cancer molecular subtypes.Győrffy B, Pongor L, Bottai G, Li X, Budczies J, Szabó A, Hatzis C, Pusztai L, Santarpia L. Br J Cancer. 2018 Apr; 2018 Mar 21. PMID: 29559730.
Cardiac biomarkers for early detection and prediction of trastuzumab and/or lapatinib-induced cardiotoxicity in patients with HER2-positive early-stage breast cancer: a NeoALTTO sub-study (BIG 1-06).Ponde N, Bradbury I, Lambertini M, Ewer M, Campbell C, Ameels H, Zardavas D, Di Cosimo S, Baselga J, Huober J, Izquierdo M, Fumagalli D, Bozovic-Spasojevic I, Maetens M, Harbeck N, Pusztai L, Berghorn M, Im YH, Borrego MR, Chen DR, Rodeheffer R, Piccart M, Suter T, de Azambuja E. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Apr; 2017 Dec 27. PMID: 29280043.
Benefit of the addition of hormone therapy to neoadjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy for breast cancer: comparison of predicted and observed pCR.Generali D, Corona SP, Pusztai L, Rouzier R, Allevi G, Aguggini S, Milani M, Strina C, Frati A. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 2018 Mar; 2018 Jan 17. PMID: 29344722.

2017

Discussion of: "Does lymph node status influence adjuvant therapy decision-making in women 70 years of age or older with clinically node negative hormone receptor positive breast cancer?"Chagpar AB, Horowitz N, Sanft T, Wilson LD, Silber A, Killelea B, Moran MS, DiGiovanna MP, Hofstatter E, Chung G, Pusztai L, Lannin DR. Am J Surg. 2017 Dec; 2017 Sep 30. PMID: 28987415.
Does lymph node status influence adjuvant therapy decision-making in women 70 years of age or older with clinically node negative hormone receptor positive breast cancer?Chagpar AB, Horowitz N, Sanft T, Wilson LD, Silber A, Killelea B, Moran MS, DiGiovanna MP, Hofstatter E, Chung G, Pusztai L, Lannin DR. Am J Surg. 2017 Dec; 2017 Sep 18. PMID: 28939252.
Impacts of Early Guideline-Directed 21-Gene Recurrence Score Testing on Adjuvant Therapy Decision Making.Dzimitrowicz H, Mougalian S, Storms S, Hurd S, Chagpar AB, Killelea BK, Horowitz NR, Lannin DR, Harigopal M, Hofstatter E, DiGiovanna MP, Adelson KB, Silber A, Abu-Khalaf M, Chung G, Zaheer W, Abdelghany O, Hatzis C, Pusztai L, Sanft TB. J Oncol Pract. 2017 Dec; 2017 Oct 19. PMID: 29048991.
Association Between Genomic Metrics and Immune Infiltration in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Karn T, Jiang T, Hatzis C, Sänger N, El-Balat A, Rody A, Holtrich U, Becker S, Bianchini G, Pusztai L. JAMA Oncol. 2017 Dec 1. PMID: 28750120.
Functional germline variants as potential co-oncogenes.Agarwal D, Nowak C, Zhang NR, Pusztai L, Hatzis C. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2017; 2017 Nov 22. PMID: 29177190.
Bidirectional Text Messaging to Monitor Endocrine Therapy Adherence and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Breast Cancer.Mougalian SS, Epstein LN, Jhaveri AP, Han G, Abu-Khalaf M, Hofstatter EW, DiGiovanna MP, Silber ALM, Adelson K, Pusztai L, Gross CP. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2017 Nov. PMID: 30657377.
Scientific Summary from the Morgan Welch MD Anderson Cancer Center Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) Program 10^th Anniversary Conference.Woodward WA, Cristofanilli M, Merajver SD, Van Laere S, Pusztai L, Bertucci F, Berditchevski F, Polyak K, Overmoyer B, Devi GR, Sterneck E, Schneider R, Debeb BG, Wang X, van Golen KL, El-Zein R, Rahal OM, Alexander A, Reuben JM, Krishnamurthy S, Lucci A, Ueno NT. J Cancer. 2017; 2017 Oct 9. PMID: 29667990.
Association of LN Evaluation with Survival in Women Aged 70 Years or Older With Clinically Node-Negative Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer.Chagpar AB, Hatzis C, Pusztai L, DiGiovanna MP, Moran M, Mougalian S, Sanft T, Evans S, Hofstatter E, Wilson LD, Lannin DR. Ann Surg Oncol. 2017 Oct; 2017 Aug 1. PMID: 28766195.
Erratum to: Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and PD-L1 expression in breast cancer and its clinical significance.Pelekanou V, Carvajal-Hausdorf DE, Altan M, Wasserman B, Carvajal-Hausdorf C, Wimberly H, Brown J, Lannin D, Pusztai L, Rimm DL. Breast Cancer Res. 2017 Sep 25; 2017 Sep 25. PMID: 28946899.
Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and PD-L1 expression in breast cancer and its clinical significance.Pelekanou V, Carvajal-Hausdorf DE, Altan M, Wasserman B, Carvajal-Hausdorf C, Wimberly H, Brown J, Lannin D, Pusztai L, Rimm DL. Breast Cancer Res. 2017 Aug 7; 2017 Aug 7. PMID: 28784153.
Immune Gene Expression Is Associated with Genomic Aberrations in Breast Cancer.Safonov A, Jiang T, Bianchini G, Győrffy B, Karn T, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. Cancer Res. 2017 Jun 15; 2017 Apr 20. PMID: 28428277.
Erratum: Phylogenetic analysis of metastatic progression in breast cancer using somatic mutations and copy number aberrations.Brown D, Smeets D, Székely B, Larsimont D, Szász AM, Adnet PY, Rothé F, Rouas G, Nagy ZI, Faragó Z, Tőkés AM, Dank M, Szentmártoni G, Udvarhelyi N, Zoppoli G, Pusztai L, Piccart M, Kulka J, Lambrechts D, Sotiriou C, Desmedt C. Nat Commun. 2017 Jun 6; 2017 Jun 6. PMID: 28585536.
Testing violations of the exponential assumption in cancer clinical trials with survival endpoints.Han G, Schell MJ, Zhang H, Zelterman D, Pusztai L, Adelson K, Hatzis C. Biometrics. 2017 Jun; 2016 Sep 26. PMID: 27669414.
Combinatorial Screening of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Reveals Sensitivity to Drug Combinations Including Bromodomain Inhibitor Plus Neddylation Inhibitor.Langdon CG, Platt JT, Means RE, Iyidogan P, Mamillapalli R, Klein M, Held MA, Lee JW, Koo JS, Hatzis C, Hochster HS, Stern DF. Mol Cancer Ther. 2017 Jun; 2017 Mar 14. PMID: 28292938.
Co-targeting the HER and IGF/insulin receptor axis in breast cancer, with triple targeting with endocrine therapy for hormone-sensitive disease.Chakraborty A, Hatzis C, DiGiovanna MP. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2017 May; 2017 Feb 24. PMID: 28236033.
Bone Density Screening in Postmenopausal Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer Treated With Aromatase Inhibitors.Stratton J, Hu X, Soulos PR, Davidoff AJ, Pusztai L, Gross CP, Mougalian SS. J Oncol Pract. 2017 May; 2017 Mar 7. PMID: 28267392.
Phylogenetic analysis of metastatic progression in breast cancer using somatic mutations and copy number aberrations.Brown D, Smeets D, Székely B, Larsimont D, Szász AM, Adnet PY, Rothé F, Rouas G, Nagy ZI, Faragó Z, Tőkés AM, Dank M, Szentmártoni G, Udvarhelyi N, Zoppoli G, Pusztai L, Piccart M, Kulka J, Lambrechts D, Sotiriou C, Desmedt C. Nat Commun. 2017 Apr 20; 2017 Apr 20. PMID: 28429735.
Structural insights into POT1-TPP1 interaction and POT1 C-terminal mutations in human cancer.Chen C, Gu P, Wu J, Chen X, Niu S, Sun H, Wu L, Li N, Peng J, Shi S, Fan C, Huang M, Wong CC, Gong Q, Kumar-Sinha C, Zhang R, Pusztai L, Rai R, Chang S, Lei M. Nat Commun. 2017 Apr 10; 2017 Apr 10. PMID: 28393832.