Browsing Breast Cancer Research by author "Bliss, Judith"
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20-Year Risks of Breast-Cancer Recurrence after Stopping Endocrine Therapy at 5 Years.
Pan, H; Gray, R; Braybrooke, J; Davies, C; Taylor, C; et al. (MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC, 2017-11-09)BACKGROUND: The administration of endocrine therapy for 5 years substantially reduces recurrence rates during and after treatment in women with early-stage, estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer. Extending such ... -
Abiraterone in patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer: principal results of the phase II Cancer of the Ovary Abiraterone (CORAL) trial (CRUK - A16037).
Banerjee, S; Tovey, H; Bowen, R; Folkerd, E; Kilburn, L; et al. (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2020-12-01)BACKGROUND: Recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) remains difficult to treat, with an urgent need for more therapy options. Androgens bind to the androgen receptor (AR), commonly expressed in EOC. CYP17 inhibitor ... -
Carboplatin in BRCA1/2-mutated and triple-negative breast cancer BRCAness subgroups: the TNT Trial.
Tutt, A; Tovey, H; Cheang, MCU; Kernaghan, S; Kilburn, L; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018-04-30)Germline mutations in BRCA1/2 predispose individuals to breast cancer (termed germline-mutated BRCA1/2 breast cancer, gBRCA-BC) by impairing homologous recombination (HR) and causing genomic instability. HR also repairs ... -
Circulating tumour DNA analysis to direct therapy in advanced breast cancer (plasmaMATCH): a multicentre, multicohort, phase 2a, platform trial.
Turner, NC; Kingston, B; Kilburn, LS; Kernaghan, S; Wardley, AM; et al. (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2020-10-01)BACKGROUND: Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) testing might provide a current assessment of the genomic profile of advanced cancer, without the need to repeat tumour biopsy. We aimed to assess the accuracy of ctDNA testing ... -
Comparison of Circulating Tumor DNA Assays for Molecular Residual Disease Detection in Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.
Coakley, M; Villacampa, G; Sritharan, P; Swift, C; Dunne, K; et al. (AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2024-02-16)PURPOSE: Detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in patients who have completed treatment for early-stage breast cancer is associated with a high risk of relapse, yet the optimal assay for ctDNA detection is unknown. ... -
Early circulating tumor DNA dynamics and clonal selection with palbociclib and fulvestrant for breast cancer.
O'Leary, B; Hrebien, S; Morden, JP; Beaney, M; Fribbens, C; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2018-03-01)CDK4/6 inhibition substantially improves progression-free survival (PFS) for women with advanced estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, although there are no predictive biomarkers. Early changes in circulating tumor DNA ... -
ESR1 F404 Mutations and Acquired Resistance to Fulvestrant in ESR1-Mutant Breast Cancer.
Kingston, B; Pearson, A; Herrera-Abreu, MT; Sim, L-X; Cutts, RJ; et al. (AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2024-02-08)UNLABELLED: Fulvestrant is used to treat patients with hormone receptor-positive advanced breast cancer, but acquired resistance is poorly understood. PlasmaMATCH Cohort A (NCT03182634) investigated the activity of fulvestrant ... -
ESR1 Mutations and Overall Survival on Fulvestrant versus Exemestane in Advanced Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: A Combined Analysis of the Phase III SoFEA and EFECT Trials.
Turner, NC; Swift, C; Kilburn, L; Fribbens, C; Beaney, M; et al. (AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2020-10-01)PURPOSE: ESR1 mutations are acquired frequently in hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer after prior aromatase inhibitors. We assessed the clinical utility of baseline ESR1 circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis ... -
Evidence-based guidelines for managing patients with primary ER+ HER2- breast cancer deferred from surgery due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dowsett, M; Ellis, MJ; Dixon, JM; Gluz, O; Robertson, J; et al. (2020-01)Many patients with ER+ HER2- primary breast cancer are being deferred from surgery to neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (NeoET) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have collated data from multiple international trials of presurgical ... -
Evidence-based guidelines for managing patients with primary ER+ HER2- breast cancer deferred from surgery due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dowsett, M; Ellis, MJ; Dixon, JM; Gluz, O; Robertson, J; et al. (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2020-06-08)Many patients with ER+ HER2- primary breast cancer are being deferred from surgery to neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (NeoET) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have collated data from multiple international trials of presurgical ... -
FFPE breast tumour blocks provide reliable sources of both germline and malignant DNA for investigation of genetic determinants of individual tumour responses to treatment.
Wilkins, A; Chauhan, R; Rust, A; Pearson, A; Daley, F; et al. (SPRINGER, 2018-08-01)BACKGROUND: Bio-banked formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues provide an excellent opportunity for translational genomic research. Historically matched blood has not always been collected as a source of germline ... -
Genomic Instability and TP53 Genomic Alterations Associate With Poor Antiproliferative Response and Intrinsic Resistance to Aromatase Inhibitor Treatment.
Schuster, EF; Gellert, P; Segal, CV; López-Knowles, E; Buus, R; et al. (AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2019-01)PURPOSE: Although aromatase inhibitor (AI) treatment is effective in estrogen receptor-positive postmenopausal breast cancer, resistance is common and incompletely explained. Genomic instability, as measured by somatic ... -
Genomic profile of advanced breast cancer in circulating tumour DNA.
Kingston, B; Cutts, RJ; Bye, H; Beaney, M; Walsh-Crestani, G; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2021-04-23)The genomics of advanced breast cancer (ABC) has been described through tumour tissue biopsy sequencing, although these approaches are limited by geographical and temporal heterogeneity. Here we use plasma circulating ... -
HER2-enriched subtype and novel molecular subgroups drive aromatase inhibitor resistance and an increased risk of relapse in early ER+/HER2+ breast cancer.
Bergamino, MA; López-Knowles, E; Morani, G; Tovey, H; Kilburn, L; et al. (ELSEVIER, 2022-08-16)BACKGROUND: Oestrogen receptor positive/ human epidermal growth factor receptor positive (ER+/HER2+) breast cancers (BCs) are less responsive to endocrine therapy than ER+/HER2- tumours. Mechanisms underpinning the ... -
Heterogeneity in global gene expression profiles between biopsy specimens taken peri-surgically from primary ER-positive breast carcinomas.
López-Knowles, E; Gao, Q; Cheang, MCU; Morden, J; Parker, J; et al. (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2016-04-01)BACKGROUND: Gene expression is widely used for the characterisation of breast cancers. Variability due to tissue heterogeneity or measurement error or systematic change due to peri-surgical procedures can affect measurements ... -
Homologous recombination DNA repair deficiency and PARP inhibition activity in primary triple negative breast cancer.
Chopra, N; Tovey, H; Pearson, A; Cutts, R; Toms, C; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2020-05-29)Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) encompasses molecularly different subgroups, with a subgroup harboring evidence of defective homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair. Here, within a phase 2 window clinical trial, RIO ... -
Impact of aromatase inhibitor treatment on global gene expression and its association with antiproliferative response in ER+ breast cancer in postmenopausal patients.
Gao, Q; López-Knowles, E; Cheang, MCU; Morden, J; Ribas, R; et al. (BMC, 2019-12-31)BACKGROUND: Endocrine therapy reduces breast cancer mortality by 40%, but resistance remains a major clinical problem. In this study, we sought to investigate the impact of aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy on gene expression ... -
Impact of mutational profiles on response of primary oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancers to oestrogen deprivation.
Gellert, P; Segal, CV; Gao, Q; López-Knowles, E; Martin, L-A; et al. (NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2016-11-09)Pre-surgical studies allow study of the relationship between mutations and response of oestrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer to aromatase inhibitors (AIs) but have been limited to small biopsies. Here in phase I ... -
Increasing the dose intensity of chemotherapy by more frequent administration or sequential scheduling: a patient-level meta-analysis of 37 298 women with early breast cancer in 26 randomised trials.
Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (EBCTCG), (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2019-04-06)BACKGROUND: Increasing the dose intensity of cytotoxic therapy by shortening the intervals between cycles, or by giving individual drugs sequentially at full dose rather than in lower-dose concurrent treatment schedules, ... -
Long-term outcome and prognostic value of Ki67 after perioperative endocrine therapy in postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer (POETIC): an open-label, multicentre, parallel-group, randomised, phase 3 trial.
Smith, I; Robertson, J; Kilburn, L; Wilcox, M; Evans, A; et al. (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2020-11-01)BACKGROUND: Preoperative and perioperative aromatase inhibitor (POAI) therapy has the potential to improve outcomes in women with operable oestrogen receptor-positive primary breast cancer. It has also been suggested that ...