Predictors of Chemosensitivity in Triple Negative Breast Cancer: An Integrated Genomic Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly heterogeneous and aggressive disease, and although no effective targeted therapies are available to date, about one-third of patients with TNBC achieve pathologic complete response (pCR) from standard-of-care anthracycline/taxane (ACT) chemotherapy. The heterogeneity of these tumors, however, has hindered the discovery of effective biomarkers to identify such patients.

Methods and findings

We performed whole exome sequencing on 29 TNBC cases from the MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) selected because they had either pCR (n = 18) or extensive residual disease (n = 11) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, with cases from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA; n = 144) and METABRIC (n = 278) cohorts serving as validation cohorts. O

SUBMITTER: Jiang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5154510 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature