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ET/HT can probably be used after ovarian neoplasms except for granulosa cell tumors, and with great caution after low-grade serous ovarian carcinoma and serous borderline ovarian tumors. ET/HT can be used with great caution in women after estrogen receptor (ER)/progesterone receptor (PR)-positive breast cancer and is probably allowed after ER/PR-negative breast cancer.

In this study, approximately half of women with pregnancy within 5 years of BC diagnosis underwent BM. Genetic predisposition and ER-negative tumor subtype was predictive of this choice while timing of pregnancy was not.

P2, N=416, Completed, Palleos Healthcare GmbH | Active, not recruiting --> Completed

Conversely, G1-LC patients displayed a lower likelihood of disease-free status compared to G1-HC and G3 patients, albeit with no significant differences in overall survival, distant metastasis, or local recurrence among the groups. These findings offer valuable clinicopathologic insights into different HER2 FISH positive subgroups, potentially informing future criteria for interpreting HER2 FISH results.

Our findings strengthen the evidence for a protective effect of skimmed milk consumption on ER-breast cancer risk. Further two-step MR analyses suggest that this protective effect may partly result from body mass index (BMI). There is no evidence that full cream milk consumption affects the risk of BC.

Estrogen receptor-negativity, ycT0, and ycN0 are independent predictive factors for ypN0 after NAC in clinically node-positive breast cancer. The nomogram may improve individualized axillary treatment.

P2, N=50, Active, not recruiting, AstraZeneca | Trial primary completion date: May 2024 --> Nov 2024

In multivariate MR analysis, after adjusting for total triglycerides, total cholesterol, and body mass index, the correlation between the protective relationship between 25(OH)D levels and the prognosis for ER- breast cancer remained and became increasingly significant (OR = 0.51, 95% CI = 0.31-0.83, P = .007). This study demonstrated a protective relationship between 25(OH)D levels and the prognosis of ER- breast cancer, but there was no connection between 25(OH)D levels and the prognosis of ER+ breast cancer.

P2, N=16, Recruiting, Wake Forest University Health Sciences | Trial completion date: Jan 2025 --> Jan 2027 | Trial primary completion date: Oct 2024 --> Mar 2025

Approximately 15% of TNBC patients have a germline mutation in BRCA1 and/or BRCA2, and for these patients, innovative therapeutic options such as olaparib and talazoparib, which are PARP inhibitors, are available. Sacituzumab govitecan (SG) is a humanized monoclonal antibody-drug conjugate directed against the surface antigen of human trophoblastic cells (Trop-2) expressed in approximately 90% of TNBC, coupled with SN-38, the active metabolite of irinotecan, a topoisomerase I inhibitor. Here, we present the case of a woman who was initially diagnosed with localized luminal B breast cancer (ER-positive; HER2-negative) and was treated with curative therapy. However, she later experienced a recurrence with metastatic TNBC (ER-negative/HER2-negative) and received treatment with sacituzumab govitecan, which resulted in prolonged disease control.

At a long-term follow-up, the LRR rate was higher in the BCS followed by IORT, without significant differences in metastasis-free or overall survival rates. Our data confirmed the importance of exclusion ER- patients for IORT.

The IHC-M showed overlapping classification performance compared to the GP-M in terms of oncologic outcomes. This study may lay the basis to further investigate the real-life clinical impact of POLE sequencing in molecular classification and the potential stand-alone prognostic role of ER status for further allocation of EC patients into risk classes.

POLAR is not only prognostic for locoregional recurrence but also predictive of benefit from radiotherapy in selected patients. Patients ≥ 50 years with ER+/HER2-negative disease and a low POLAR score could consider omitting adjuvant RT. Further validation in contemporary clinical cohorts is required.

P2, N=96, Active, not recruiting, Mayo Clinic | N=45 --> 96

Women carrying protein truncating variants in exon 11 have a lower breast cancer risk in the population-based cohorts, older age at diagnosis and higher rates of estrogen receptor negative breast cancer than women with exon 1-10 or exon 13-27 truncation variants in population-based and clinical testing cohorts. Meaning: Incorporating pathogenic variant type and location in cancer risk models may improve individualized risk prediction.

P1, N=245, Recruiting, Incyte Corporation | N=165 --> 245

P1, N=573, Active, not recruiting, Exelixis | Trial completion date: Feb 2025 --> Jul 2025

Most of the improvement in trial outcomes is explained by a greater proportion of women with lower-risk disease entering trials and improved adjuvant treatment. After adjustment, women diagnosed since 2000 have about a fifth lower rate of distant recurrence than the 1990s. Long-term risks of distant recurrence for oestrogen receptor-positive disease remain, but are about a tenth lower now than in our previous report.

Our findings support genetic risk evaluation, enhanced screening, and lifestyle changes in women at higher risk of SBC. Additional risk factors must contribute to the unequal burden of SBC across racial and ethnic groups.

When omitting axillary clearance, and thus reducing the risk of long-term arm morbidity, potential under-treatment of postmenopausal patients with ER+HER2- breast cancer may require the development of new predictive and imaging tools. Swedish Research Council, Swedish Cancer Society, Nordic Cancer Union, Swedish Breast Cancer Association.

This meta-analysis of observational studies supports a reduction in CBC risk with endocrine therapy among breast cancer survivors, in concert with evidence synthesized from randomized clinical trials, and highlights differences in endocrine therapy effectiveness by ER-status of CBC.

We report a relatively rare case of primary breast cancer metastasis to three metastatic sites: cervix, lung, and neck. To our best knowledge, this is the first report of primary breast cancer metastasis to three sites including the cervix.

P2, N=169, Completed, US Oncology Research | Active, not recruiting --> Completed | Trial completion date: Dec 2023 --> Aug 2024 | Trial primary completion date: Dec 2023 --> Apr 2024

P1, N=20, Recruiting, Baylor Research Institute | Not yet recruiting --> Recruiting | Trial completion date: Dec 2025 --> Dec 2026 | Trial primary completion date: Jun 2025 --> Jun 2026

Furthermore, ER-positive BC lesions exhibited statistically significant higher SUVmax compared to normal background breast tissue SUVmean, with an overall WMD of 9.9 (95% CI: 7.5-12.2; P < 0.00001). Further studies utilizing this promising radiotracer should be encouraged, implementing prospective, large-scale designs in the near future.

In an independent clinical validation in the I-SPY2 trial (N = 987), we confirmed the association with neoadjuvant chemotherapy pCR and found higher rates of chemoimmunotherapy response in TP53-loss phenocopy tumors compared to non-TP53-loss phenocopy tumors (64% vs. 28%). The TP53-loss phenocopy signature predicts chemotherapy response across cancer types in vitro, and in a proof-of-concept clinical validation is associated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy response across multiple clinical breast cancer cohorts.

Additionally, elongated tumor cells were specifically in CD8-NOS2+COX2+ regions, suggesting metastatic hot spots. This work demonstrates predictive power of spatial analyses of CD8/NOS2/COX2 architecture and supports the use of clinically available NOS2/COX2 inhibitors for improved survival in patients with these aggressive tumors.

The expression of at least one of the cysteine cathepsins B, L and S in all breast tumor tissues tested suggests that cathepsin-activatable imaging agents with broad reactivity for these three proteases will likely be effective in the vast majority of breast cancer patients, regardless of molecular subtype and treatment status. Patients with high grade ER-negative, HER2-positive, or TN tumors might show higher imaging signals.

In breast cancers, there is no resistance to genotoxic or immune blocker therapies, but rather, the nonresponsive tumor cells exhaust all compensatory possibilities against therapeutic damages. Understanding the behavior and ambition of breast cancer cells may achieve a turn in therapy via applying supportive care instead of genotoxic measures.

This MR approach underscores aberrant lipid metabolism as a key process in breast tumorigenesis, and may inform future prevention and treatment strategies. To further elucidate the underlying mechanisms and explore the potential clinical implications, additional research is warranted to validate the observed associations in this study.

Evaluation of DWI findings revealed that a higher lesion-to-normal breast parenchyma apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) ratio statistically increased the probability of HRc positivity (p = 0.033). Certain clinicopathological, mammography, and MRI features, along with the lesion-to-normal breast parenchyma ADC ratio, can serve as predictors for HRc status in DCIS lesions.

P1/2, N=170, Active, not recruiting, Cyteir Therapeutics, Inc. | Trial completion date: Dec 2024 --> Apr 2025 | Trial primary completion date: Jul 2024 --> Dec 2024

A strong association of stromal CD10 expression with a well-established negative prognostic marker such as a higher tumor grade, ER-negative status, and PR-negative status was noted and thus, stromal CD10 expression can be used as an independent prognostic marker in breast carcinoma.

De-intensified 3-day PBI provided favorable disease control, tolerability, and cosmetic outcomes, meeting the pre-specified criteria for acceptability. This approach is an attractive option for small node-negative ER+ BC and DCIS patients.

CFL1 showed the strongest correlation with the metastatic potential of breast tumors. Thus, targeted inhibition of CFL1 might be a promising approach to treat malignant breast cancer cells.

The IHC 3+ group had a higher pCR rate than the IHC 2+/FISH(+) group. Along with clinicopathological characteristics, MRI parameters were supplemental predictors of pCR, particularly in IHC 3+ patients.

Among patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, those with tumor size ≤20 mm, ER-negative status, no lymph node metastases, and mass enhancement and concentric shrinkage patterns are more likely to achieve pCR. Mass enhancement combined with concentric shrinkage had the highest accuracy in predicting pCR, indicating that preoperative imaging may be useful for guiding clinical decisions regarding targeted treatments.

P3, N=325, Recruiting, Lund University Hospital | N=920 --> 325 | Trial primary completion date: Jun 2023 --> Jul 2025

P2, N=329, Active, not recruiting, Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc. | Recruiting --> Active, not recruiting

In addition, the upregulation of IGFBP6 in BC increased the drug sensitivity to docetaxel, paclitaxel and gemcitabine. It is not only involved in the maintenance of the tumor microenvironment in BC but also inhibits the energy metabolism of cancer cells through glucose metabolism-related pathways. These findings may provide a new perspective on IGFBP6 as a potential prognostic marker for BC.

The THR cell-of-origin signature introduces a novel dimension to breast cancer biology, potentially serving as a robust foundation for integrating additional prognostic biomarkers. These signatures offer utility as a prognostic index for stratifying existing breast cancer subtypes and for de novo classification of breast cancer cases. Moreover, THR signatures may also hold promise in predicting hormone treatment responses targeting AR and/or VDR.

The CXCL-9,-10,-11/CXCR3 axis, dependent on IFN-γ signaling activity, was overexpressed in primary breast cancer samples of patients who developed brain metastasis. The data support a role for T-lymphocytes and the IFN-γ pathway in the formation of brain metastasis of ER-breast cancer, and offer targets to design future therapies for preventing breast cancer cells to cross the BBB.