Not exact matches
Horvath and Tell's research is the first reported study to compare breast cancer
subtypes and gene expression patterns associated
with STAT3 in the
tumors of human patients.
«Carefully defining the molecular landscape of these
tumor subtypes may guide us in pediatric precision medicine, to better treat children
with brain
tumors,» said Payal Jain, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
«In addition to having a higher prevalence of triple - negative breast cancers than Caucasian women — something that has been documented in previous studies — we found that African American women
with breast cancer had a significantly higher prevalence of the TP53 driver mutation, basal
tumor subtype and greater genomic diversity within
tumors, all of which suggest more aggressive
tumor biology,» says Tanya Keenan, MD, of the MGH Cancer Center, lead author of the study.
About two - thirds of people
with the germinal center
subtype live for five years or more after diagnosis, while those
with activated B - cell - like
tumors have a poorer prognosis
with current treatment regimes.
«Areas of glioblastoma
tumors correlate
with separate
subtypes of glioma stem cells.»
Tumors in this
subtype «are associated
with relatively indolent disease, are cured by surgery, and almost never recur,» Swanton says.
The team found that ccRCC
tumors fall into different evolutionary
subtypes that are associated
with distinct clinical phenotypes.
This finding suggests that patients
with this
subtype may respond better to alternative treatments that target their
tumors» unique genetic structure, which is different than most cervical cancers.
Finally, 2 % of
tumors were of the rare normal - like
subtype, which couldn't be comprehensively studied
with so few samples.
Mutations in E-cadherin (CDH1) were frequent across
subtypes but correlated almost perfectly
with lobular
tumors.
The primary
tumor location was an independent prognostic marker in patients
with RAS wild - type metastatic colorectal cancer after adjusting for age, gender, synchronous / metachronous disease, consensus molecular
subtype, and microsatellite instability and molecular status, according to the results of an analysis (abstract 3503) of data from CALGB / SWOG 80405 presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
The researchers found that non-Hispanic white women were more likely to have smaller
tumors, and more likely to have the less - aggressive HR + / HER2 -
subtype of breast cancer, compared
with African - American women, who were more likely to have large
tumors, more likely to have the aggressive triple - negative breast cancer, and 40 to 70 percent more likely to be diagnosed at stage 4 of all
subtypes of breast cancer.
In all, there were 291
tumors with KRAS, 393
with NRAS, 393
with BRAF, 378
with microsatellite instability, and 533
with consensus molecular
subtypes.
There was also variation based on histology,
with the highest rate of local recurrence at about a year after surgery seen in malignant peripheral nerve sheath
tumors (MPNST), followed by myxofibrosarcoma; both those types saw persistently elevated rates compared to other
subtypes out beyond 5 years.
Breast Cancer Cell Line Classification and Its Relevance
with Breast
Tumor Subtyping Xiaofeng Dai, Hongye Cheng, Zhonghu Bai, Jia Li Journal of Cancer 2017; 8:3131 - 3141
«This comes at a time when unprecedented development of novel immune agents is intersecting
with our deeper understanding of colorectal molecular
subtypes and of the complexities of the
tumor microenvironment.»
Title: Infiltrating immune cells in breast cancer
subtypes Date / Time: Tuesday, April 17 2018, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm CT Author: J.L. Matta et al, Ponce Health Sciences Institute and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center Poster # / Location: 5698 / Section 32, Board 4 Hyperlink: http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4562/presentation/7977 Demonstrates the value of combining PAM50
subtype distribution
with tumor immune profiling to identify biologically distinct patient populations; the combination of these signatures could be applied to the development of specific immunotherapeutics.