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    Hidden secrets of the cancer genome: unlocking the impact of non-coding mutations in gene regulatory elements

    Discoveries in the field of genomics have revealed that non-coding genomic regions are not merely "junk DNA", but rather comprise critical elements involved in gene expression. These gene regulatory elements (...

    Sandra Iñiguez-Muñoz, Pere Llinàs-Arias in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2024)

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    Author Correction: Safety analyses from the phase 3 ASCENT trial of sacituzumab govitecan in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer

    Hope S. Rugo, Sara M. Tolaney, Delphine Loirat, Kevin Punie in npj Breast Cancer (2024)

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    Trastuzumab deruxtecan versus trastuzumab emtansine in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer: long-term survival analysis of the DESTINY-Breast03 trial

    Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) demonstrated significantly improved efficacy over trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) in DESTINY-Breast03 (median follow-up, 28 months). We report updated efficacy and safety analyses,...

    Javier Cortés, Sara A. Hurvitz, Seock-Ah Im, Hiroji Iwata in Nature Medicine (2024)

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    Safety analyses from the phase 3 ASCENT trial of sacituzumab govitecan in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer

    Sacituzumab govitecan (SG) is an anti-Trop-2 antibody-drug conjugate with an SN-38 payload. In the ASCENT study, patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC) relapsed/refractory to ≥2 prior c...

    Hope S. Rugo, Sara M. Tolaney, Delphine Loirat, Kevin Punie in npj Breast Cancer (2022)

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    Sacituzumab govitecan as second-line treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer—phase 3 ASCENT study subanalysis

    Patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who relapse early after (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy have more aggressive disease. In the ASCENT trial, sacituzumab govitecan (SG), an antibody-drug conjugate c...

    Lisa A. Carey, Delphine Loirat, Kevin Punie, Aditya Bardia in npj Breast Cancer (2022)

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    Gene signatures in patients with early breast cancer and relapse despite pathologic complete response

    A substantial minority of early breast cancer (EBC) patients relapse despite their tumors achieving pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant therapy. We compared gene expression (BC360; nCounter® plat...

    Simona Bruzas, Oleg Gluz, Nadia Harbeck, Peter Schmid, Javier Cortés in npj Breast Cancer (2022)

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    Neoadjuvant eribulin in HER2-negative early-stage breast cancer (SOLTI-1007-NeoEribulin): a multicenter, two-cohort, non-randomized phase II trial

    Eribulin prolongs overall survival in patients with pre-treated advanced breast cancer. However, no biomarker exists to prospectively select patients who will benefit the most from this drug. SOLTI-1007-NeoEri...

    Tomás Pascual, Mafalda Oliveira, Patricia Villagrasa, Vanesa Ortega in npj Breast Cancer (2021)

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    Nobody dares stop** clinical research, not even COVID-19

    In the global health emergency caused by the COVID-19, clinical trial management has proven to be critical for the pharmaceutical industry, sponsors, and healthcare professionals. Our experience as a sponsor m...

    Andrea Malfettone, Serena Di Cosimo, José Manuel Pérez-García in npj Breast Cancer (2021)

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    PI3K activation promotes resistance to eribulin in HER2-negative breast cancer

    Eribulin is a microtubule-targeting agent approved for the treatment of advanced or metastatic breast cancer (BC) previously treated with anthracycline- and taxane-based regimens. PIK3CA mutation is associated wi...

    Albert Gris-Oliver, Yasir H. Ibrahim, Martín A. Rivas in British Journal of Cancer (2021)

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    Clinical validation of full genoty** CLART® HPV4S assay on SurePath and ThinPrep collected screening samples according to the international guidelines for human papillomavirus test requirements for cervical screening

    To ensure the highest quality of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing in primary cervical cancer screening, novel HPV assays must be evaluated in accordance with the international guidelines. Furthermore, HPV as...

    Ditte Møller Ejegod, Camilla Lagheden, Ramya Bhatia, Helle Pedersen in BMC Cancer (2020)

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    Challenges in the treatment of hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer with brain metastases

    Brain metastases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality for women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer, yet little is known about the optimal treatment of brain disease in this group of pati...

    Minetta C. Liu, Javier Cortés, Joyce O’Shaughnessy in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews (2016)

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    Methylthioadenosine (MTA) inhibits melanoma cell proliferation and in vivotumor growth

    Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer without effective treatment. Methylthioadenosine (MTA) is a naturally occurring nucleoside with differential effects on normal and transformed cells. MTA has bee...

    Pedro Andreu-Pérez, Javier Hernandez-Losa, Teresa Moliné, Rosa Gil in BMC Cancer (2010)