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Its predictive and prognostic value in HER2-positive breast cancer treated with trastuzumab-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Head and Neck Pathol (2016) 10:75–84 DOI 10.1007/s12105-016-0695-8

This publication, in an attempt to reflect the polytonal vibrancy of European pathology, has come to include a variety of sections and an increasing number of pages. ESP Newsletter Summer Edition 2016 is here!

June 6-8, 2016 in Varna took place European School of Pathology – Update in Thyroid Pathology for Pathologist. The course is designated for (two days and half) with European CME Credits – 20 (ECMEC)

Background: Autophagy is a catabolic process that has a vital role in cancer progression and treatment. Current chemotherapeutic agents, which target autophagy, result in growth inhibition in many cancer types. In this study, we examined the role of autophagy in breast cancer (BCa) patients as well as BCa cell lines. Methods: Tissue microarray was used to detect the expression of an autophagy marker, LC3B in BCa patients (normal/ hyperplasia ¼ 8; grade-I ¼ 15, grade-II ¼ 84, and grade-III ¼…

Positive cases through HER2 reassessment in primary and metastatic sites in advanced gastric cancer with initially HER2-negative primary tumours: Results of GASTric cancer HER2 reassessment study 1 (GASTHER1)

Inflammatory breast cancer is the most aggressive form of breast cancer. Identifying new biomarkers to be used as therapeutic targets is in urgent need. Messenger RNA expression profiling studies have indicated that inflammatory breast cancer is a transcriptionally heterogeneous disease, and specific molecular targets for inflammatory breast cancer have not been well established. We performed microRNA expression profiling in inflammatory breast cancer in comparison with locally advanced noninflammatory breast cancer in this study. Although many microRNAs were differentially expressed between…

In the spectrum of breast cancers, categorization according to the four gene expression-based subtypes ‘Luminal A,’ ‘Luminal B,’ ‘HER2-enriched,’ and ‘Basal-like’ is the method of choice for prognostic and predictive value. As gene expression assays are not yet universally available, routine immunohistochemical stains act as surrogate markers for these subtypes. Thus, congruence of surrogate markers and gene expression tests is of utmost importance. In this study, 3 cohorts of primary breast cancer specimens (total n = 436) with up to…