2023
Monitoring Treatment Response, Early Recurrence, and Survival in Uterine Serous Carcinoma and Carcinosarcoma Patients Using Personalized Circulating Tumor DNA Biomarkers
Bellone S, McNamara B, Mutlu L, Demirkiran C, Hartwich T, Harold J, Yang-Hartwich Y, Siegel E, Santin A. Monitoring Treatment Response, Early Recurrence, and Survival in Uterine Serous Carcinoma and Carcinosarcoma Patients Using Personalized Circulating Tumor DNA Biomarkers. International Journal Of Molecular Sciences 2023, 24: 8873. PMID: 37240216, PMCID: PMC10219151, DOI: 10.3390/ijms24108873.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUterine serous carcinomaCS patientsEarly recurrenceDroplet digital polymerase chain reactionCA 125Serous carcinomaCtDNA testingTime of surgeryTime of recurrenceReliable tumor biomarkersTumour DNA biomarkersCarcinosarcoma patientsUSC patientsRecurrent diseaseOccult diseaseOverall survivalEndometrial cancerAggressive variantInitial treatmentRecurrent tumorsResidual tumorClinical findingsTreatment courseTreatment trialsPIK3CA mutations
2022
Ovarian and uterine carcinosarcomas are sensitive in vitro and in vivo to elimusertib, a novel ataxia-telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) kinase inhibitor
Manavella D, McNamara B, Harold J, Bellone S, Hartwich T, Yang-Hartwich Y, Mutlu L, Zipponi M, Demirkiran C, Verzosa M, Altwerger G, Ratner E, Huang G, Clark M, Andikyan V, Azodi M, Schwartz P, Dottino P, Choi J, Alexandrov L, Buza N, Hui P, Santin A. Ovarian and uterine carcinosarcomas are sensitive in vitro and in vivo to elimusertib, a novel ataxia-telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) kinase inhibitor. Gynecologic Oncology 2022, 169: 98-105. PMID: 36525930, PMCID: PMC9925406, DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2022.12.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHomologous recombination deficiencyCS cell linesCell linesWestern blotKinase inhibitorsOverall animal survivalProtein expressionDose-dependent increaseDose-dependent inhibitionCarcinosarcoma cell lineTumor growth inhibitionCaspase-3 expressionEndometrioid histologyAggressive malignancyUterine carcinosarcomaCS patientsPreclinical activityClinical trialsEpithelial componentAnimal survivalXenograftsApoptosis markersRecombination deficiencyP-ATRP-Chk1