There is an unmet need in metastatic breast cancer patients to monitor therapy response in real time. In this study, we show how a noninvasive and affordable strategy based on sequencing of plasma samples with longitudinal tracking of tumour fraction paired with a statistical model provides valuable information on treatment response in advance of the ...
Emma J. Beddowes+20 more
wiley +1 more source
Deep learning-based prediction of response to HER2-targeted neoadjuvant chemotherapy from pre-treatment dynamic breast MRI: A multi-institutional validation study [PDF]
Predicting response to neoadjuvant therapy is a vexing challenge in breast cancer. In this study, we evaluate the ability of deep learning to predict response to HER2-targeted neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) from pre-treatment dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI acquired prior to treatment.
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Diffuse optical spectroscopic imaging reveals distinct early breast tumor hemodynamic responses to metronomic and maximum tolerated dose regimens. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Breast cancer patients with early-stage disease are increasingly administered neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) to downstage their tumors prior to surgery. In this setting, approximately 31% of patients fail to respond to therapy.
Cabral, Howard+11 more
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Neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer
No good evidence of benefit—trials ...
Jörg Kleeff+2 more
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This study used longitudinal transcriptomics and gene‐pattern classification to uncover patient‐specific mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer. Findings reveal preexisting drug‐tolerant states in primary tumors and diverse gene rewiring patterns across patients, converging on a few dysregulated functional modules. Despite receiving the
Maya Dadiani+14 more
wiley +1 more source
ULTRA: Uncertainty-aware Label Distribution Learning for Breast Tumor Cellularity Assessment [PDF]
Neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) for breast cancer is a common treatment option in clinical practice. Tumor cellularity (TC), which represents the percentage of invasive tumors in the tumor bed, has been widely used to quantify the response of breast cancer to NAT. Therefore, automatic TC estimation is significant in clinical practice. However, existing state-
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Increased lymph node yield in colorectal cancer is not necessarily associated with a greater number of lymph node positive cancers [PDF]
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Aly, Omar+5 more
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Ifosfamide with regional hyperthermia in soft-tissue sarcomas [PDF]
For high-risk soft tissue sarcomas (HR-STS) of adults, new treatment strategies are needed to improve outcome with regard to local control and overall survival.
Issels, Rolf-Dieter+2 more
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This study develops a semi‐supervised classifier integrating multi‐genomic data (1404 training/5893 validation samples) to improve homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) detection in breast cancer. Our method demonstrates prognostic value and predicts chemotherapy/PARP inhibitor sensitivity in HRD+ tumours.
Rong Zhu+12 more
wiley +1 more source
Improved Prognostic Prediction of Pancreatic Cancer Using Multi-Phase CT by Integrating Neural Distance and Texture-Aware Transformer [PDF]
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal cancer in which the tumor-vascular involvement greatly affects the resectability and, thus, overall survival of patients. However, current prognostic prediction methods fail to explicitly and accurately investigate relationships between the tumor and nearby important vessels.
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