Publications

2023

In silico designed mRNA vaccines targeting CA-125 neoantigen in breast and ovarian cancer.Lu L, Ma W, Johnson CH, Khan SA, Irwin ML, Pusztai L. Vaccine. 2023 Mar 17; 2023 Feb 20. PMID: 36813666.
Variable Landscape of PD-L1 Expression in Breast Carcinoma as Detected by the DAKO 22C3 Immunohistochemistry Assay.Danziger N, Sokol ES, Graf RP, Hiemenz MC, Maule J, Parimi V, Palmieri C, Pusztai L, Ross JS, Huang RSP. Oncologist. 2023 Mar 2; 2023 Mar 2. PMID: 36866462.
AKT/mTOR signaling modulates resistance to endocrine therapy and CDK4/6 inhibition in metastatic breast cancers.Abu-Khalaf MM, Alex Hodge K, Hatzis C, Baldelli E, El Gazzah E, Valdes F, Sikov WM, Mita MM, Denduluri N, Murphy R, Zelterman D, Liotta L, Dunetz B, Dunetz R, Petricoin EF, Pierobon M. NPJ Precis Oncol. 2023 Feb 16; 2023 Feb 16. PMID: 36797347.
Cisplatin with veliparib or placebo in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer and BRCA mutation-associated breast cancer (S1416): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial.Rodler E, Sharma P, Barlow WE, Gralow JR, Puhalla SL, Anders CK, Goldstein L, Tripathy D, Brown-Glaberman UA, Huynh TT, Szyarto CS, Godwin AK, Pathak HB, Swisher EM, Radke MR, Timms KM, Lew DL, Miao J, Pusztai L, Hayes DF, Hortobagyi GN. Lancet Oncol. 2023 Feb; 2023 Jan 6. PMID: 36623515.
Intratumour heterogeneity, from hypothesis to the clinic.Shan NL, Kahn A, Pusztai L. Br J Cancer. 2023 Feb; 2022 Oct 10. PMID: 36216884.
Thymidine kinase activity levels in serum can identify HR+ metastatic breast cancer patients with a low risk of early progression (SWOG S0226).Bergqvist M, Nordmark A, Williams A, Paoletti C, Barlow W, Cobain EF, Mehta RS, Gralow JR, Hortobagyi GN, Albain KS, Pusztai L, Sharma P, Godwin AK, Thompson AM, Hayes DF, Rae JM. Biomarkers. 2023 Jan 29; 2023 Jan 29. PMID: 36647745.
Assessment of stained direct cytology smears of breast cancer for whole transcriptome and targeted messenger RNA sequencing.Marczyk M, Fu C, Lau R, Du L, Trevarton AJ, Sinn BV, Gould RE, Pusztai L, Hatzis C, Symmans WF. Cancer Cytopathol. 2023 Jan 17; 2023 Jan 17. PMID: 36650408.
Evaluation of the Sensitivity to Endocrine Therapy Index and 21-Gene Breast Recurrence Score in the SWOG S8814 Trial.Speers CW, Symmans WF, Barlow WE, Trevarton A, The S, Du L, Rae JM, Shak S, Baehner R, Sharma P, Pusztai L, Hortobagyi GN, Hayes DF, Albain KS, Godwin A, Thompson A. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Jan 17; 2023 Jan 17. PMID: 36649570.
Impact of Anti-HER2 Therapy Alone and With Weekly Paclitaxel on the Ovarian Reserve of Young Women With HER2-Positive Breast Cancer.Lambertini M, Ceppi M, Anderson RA, Cameron DA, Bruzzone M, Franzoi MA, Massarotti C, El-Abed S, Wang Y, Lecocq C, Nuciforo P, Rolyance R, Pusztai L, Sohn J, Latocca MM, Arecco L, Pistilli B, Ruddy KJ, Ballestrero A, Del Mastro L, Peccatori FA, Partridge AH, Saura C, Untch M, Piccart M, Di Cosimo S, de Azambuja E, Demeestere I. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2023 Jan. PMID: 36634607.
Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Complementary Prognostic Factors to Circulating Tumor Cells in Metastatic Breast Cancer.Nanou A, Miao J, Coumans FAW, Dolce EM, Darga E, Barlow W, Smerage JB, Paoletti C, Godwin AK, Pusztai L, Sharma P, Thompson A, Hortobagyi GN, Terstappen LWMM, Hayes DF. JCO Precis Oncol. 2023 Jan. PMID: 36634296.

2022

Molecular differences between younger versus older ER-positive and HER2-negative breast cancers.Qing T, Karn T, Rozenblit M, Foldi J, Marczyk M, Shan NL, Blenman K, Holtrich U, Kalinsky K, Meric-Bernstam F, Pusztai L. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2022 Nov 7; 2022 Nov 7. PMID: 36344517.
Treatment Sequencing Patterns and Associated Direct Medical Costs of Metastatic Breast Cancer Care in the United States, 2011 to 2021.Jaber Chehayeb R, Hood A, Wang X, Miksad R, Schellhorn Mougalian S, Lustberg MB, Wang SY, Greenup RA, Pusztai L, Kunst N. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Nov 1; 2022 Nov 1. PMID: 36445704.
PD-L1 protein expression in relation to recurrence score values in early-stage ER + breast cancer.Rozenblit M, Blenman K, Harigopal M, Reisenbichler E, Singh K, Qing T, Ibrahim E, Ramkissoon S, Asmelash S, Lin HK, Roberts M, Ross J, Huang RSP, Pusztai L. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2022 Nov; 2022 Aug 26. PMID: 36028784.
A preliminary, prospective study of peripheral neuropathy and cognitive function in patients with breast cancer during taxane therapy.Ibrahim EY, Munshani S, Domenicano I, Rodwin R, Nowak RJ, Pusztai L, Lustberg M, Ehrlich BE. PLoS One. 2022; 2022 Oct 7. PMID: 36206298.
The effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the neoadjuvant and post-neoadjuvant breast cancer settings.Pusztai L. Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2022 Sep. PMID: 36125946.
Clinical Outcomes and Immune Markers by Race in a Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Durvalumab Concomitant with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Early-Stage TNBC.Foldi J, Kahn A, Silber A, Qing T, Reisenbichler E, Fischbach N, Persico J, Adelson K, Katoch A, Chagpar A, Park T, Blanchard A, Blenman K, Rimm DL, Pusztai L. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Sep 1. PMID: 35903931.
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. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2022 Jul 22; 2022 Jul 22. PMID: 35869114.
Cancer Relevance of Human Genes.Qing T, Mohsen H, Cannataro VL, Marczyk M, Rozenblit M, Foldi J, Murray M, Townsend JP, Kluger Y, Gerstein M, Pusztai L. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022 Jul 11. PMID: 35417011.
Redefining breast cancer subtypes to guide treatment prioritization and maximize response: Predictive biomarkers across 10 cancer therapies.Wolf DM, Yau C, Wulfkuhle J, Brown-Swigart L, Gallagher RI, Lee PRE, Zhu Z, Magbanua MJ, Sayaman R, O'Grady N, Basu A, Delson A, Coppé JP, Lu R, Braun J, Asare SM, Sit L, Matthews JB, Perlmutter J, Hylton N, Liu MC, Pohlmann P, Symmans WF, Rugo HS, Isaacs C, DeMichele AM, Yee D, Berry DA, Pusztai L, Petricoin EF, Hirst GL, Esserman LJ, van 't Veer LJ. Cancer Cell. 2022 Jun 13; 2022 May 26. PMID: 35623341.
Predictive Markers of Response to Neoadjuvant Durvalumab with Nab-Paclitaxel and Dose-Dense Doxorubicin/Cyclophosphamide in Basal-Like Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Blenman KRM, Marczyk M, Karn T, Qing T, Li X, Gunasekharan V, Yaghoobi V, Bai Y, Ibrahim EY, Park T, Silber A, Wolf DM, Reisenbichler E, Denkert C, Sinn BV, Rozenblit M, Foldi J, Rimm DL, Loibl S, Pusztai L. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Jun 13. PMID: 35377948.
Biomarkers for Adjuvant Endocrine and Chemotherapy in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: ASCO Guideline Update.Andre F, Ismaila N, Allison KH, Barlow WE, Collyar DE, Damodaran S, Henry NL, Jhaveri K, Kalinsky K, Kuderer NM, Litvak A, Mayer EL, Pusztai L, Raab R, Wolff AC, Stearns V. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Jun 1; 2022 Apr 19. PMID: 35439025.
Comprehensive Analysis of Metabolic Isozyme Targets in Cancer.Marczyk M, Gunasekharan V, Casadevall D, Qing T, Foldi J, Sehgal R, Shan NL, Blenman KRM, O'Meara TA, Umlauf S, Surovtseva YV, Muthusamy V, Rinehart J, Perry RJ, Kibbey R, Hatzis C, Pusztai L. Cancer Res. 2022 May 3. PMID: 35247885.
Examination of Low ERBB2 Protein Expression in Breast Cancer Tissue.Fernandez AI, Liu M, Bellizzi A, Brock J, Fadare O, Hanley K, Harigopal M, Jorns JM, Kuba MG, Ly A, Podoll M, Rabe K, Sanders MA, Singh K, Snir OL, Soong TR, Wei S, Wen H, Wong S, Yoon E, Pusztai L, Reisenbichler E, Rimm DL. JAMA Oncol. 2022 Apr 1. PMID: 35113160.
Impact of a randomized weight loss trial on breast tissue markers in breast cancer survivors.Dieli-Conwright CM, Harrigan M, Cartmel B, Chagpar A, Bai Y, Li FY, Rimm DL, Pusztai L, Lu L, Sanft T, Irwin ML. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2022 Mar 7; 2022 Mar 7. PMID: 35256599.
LCOR mediates interferon-independent tumor immunogenicity and responsiveness to immune-checkpoint blockade in triple-negative breast cancer.Pérez-Núñez I, Rozalén C, Palomeque JÁ, Sangrador I, Dalmau M, Comerma L, Hernández-Prat A, Casadevall D, Menendez S, Liu DD, Shen M, Berenguer J, Ruiz IR, Peña R, Montañés JC, Albà MM, Bonnin S, Ponomarenko J, Gomis RR, Cejalvo JM, Servitja S, Marzese DM, Morey L, Voorwerk L, Arribas J, Bermejo B, Kok M, Pusztai L, Kang Y, Albanell J, Celià-Terrassa T. Nat Cancer. 2022 Mar; 2022 Mar 17. PMID: 35301507.
Impact of Circulating Tumor DNA-Based Detection of Molecular Residual Disease on the Conduct and Design of Clinical Trials for Solid Tumors.Kasi PM, Fehringer G, Taniguchi H, Starling N, Nakamura Y, Kotani D, Powles T, Li BT, Pusztai L, Aushev VN, Kalashnikova E, Sharma S, Malhotra M, Demko ZP, Aleshin A, Rodriguez A, Billings PR, Grothey A, Taieb J, Cunningham D, Yoshino T, Kopetz S. JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 Mar. PMID: 35263168.
Evidence of accelerated epigenetic aging of breast tissues in patients with breast cancer is driven by CpGs associated with polycomb-related genes.Rozenblit M, Hofstatter E, Liu Z, O'Meara T, Storniolo AM, Dalela D, Singh V, Pusztai L, Levine M. Clin Epigenetics. 2022 Feb 24; 2022 Feb 24. PMID: 35209953.
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. 2022 Feb 15. PMID: 34844978.
Event-free Survival with Pembrolizumab in Early Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Schmid P, Cortes J, Dent R, Pusztai L, McArthur H, Kümmel S, Bergh J, Denkert C, Park YH, Hui R, Harbeck N, Takahashi M, Untch M, Fasching PA, Cardoso F, Andersen J, Patt D, Danso M, Ferreira M, Mouret-Reynier MA, Im SA, Ahn JH, Gion M, Baron-Hay S, Boileau JF, Ding Y, Tryfonidis K, Aktan G, Karantza V, O'Shaughnessy J. N Engl J Med. 2022 Feb 10. PMID: 35139274.
Author Correction: 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. 2022 Feb 3; 2022 Feb 3. PMID: 35115541.
CECR2 drives breast cancer metastasis by promoting NF-κB signaling and macrophage-mediated immune suppression.Zhang M, Liu ZZ, Aoshima K, Cai WL, Sun H, Xu T, Zhang Y, An Y, Chen JF, Chan LH, Aoshima A, Lang SM, Tang Z, Che X, Li Y, Rutter SJ, Bossuyt V, Chen X, Morrow JS, Pusztai L, Rimm DL, Yin M, Yan Q. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Feb 2; 2022 Feb 2. PMID: 35108062.
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.
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.
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 Oct 1. PMID: 34315723.
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.
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.
Reply to S. Romero-Cordoba et al.O'Meara T, Pusztai L. JCO Precis Oncol. 2020 Nov. PMID: 35050783.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Immunotherapy and targeted therapy combinations in metastatic breast cancer.Esteva FJ, Hubbard-Lucey VM, Tang J, Pusztai L. Lancet Oncol. 2019 Mar. PMID: 30842061.
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.
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.