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Connexin 43 is an independent predictor of patient outcome in breast cancer patients (2018)
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Chasampalioti, M., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., Rakha, E. A., Jackson, A. M., Spendlove, I., & Ramage, J. M. (2019). Connexin 43 is an independent predictor of patient outcome in breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 174(1), 93-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-5063-9

Purpose Gap junctions are specialized membrane structures that form channels between adjacent cells allowing cell communication. Gap junctions and specifically Connexin 43 (Cx43) are down-regulated in cancer; however, there are contrasting reports... Read More about Connexin 43 is an independent predictor of patient outcome in breast cancer patients.

Legumain is an independent predictor for invasive recurrence in breast ductal carcinoma in situ (2018)
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Toss, M. S., Miligy, I. M., Gorringe, K. L., McCaffrey, L., Alkawaz, A., Abidi, A., …Rakha, E. A. (2019). Legumain is an independent predictor for invasive recurrence in breast ductal carcinoma in situ. Modern Pathology, 32, 639-649. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41379-018-0180-x

© 2018, United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology. Legumain is a proteolytic enzyme that plays a role in the regulation of cell proliferation in invasive breast cancer. Studies evaluating its role in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are lacking.... Read More about Legumain is an independent predictor for invasive recurrence in breast ductal carcinoma in situ.

Prolyl-4-hydroxylase Α subunit 2 (P4HA2) expression is a predictor of poor outcome in breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (2018)
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Toss, M. S., Miligy, I. M., Gorringe, K. L., Alkawaz, A., Khout, H., Ellis, I. O., …Rakha, E. (2018). Prolyl-4-hydroxylase Α subunit 2 (P4HA2) expression is a predictor of poor outcome in breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). British Journal of Cancer, 119(12), 1518-1526. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-018-0337-x

© 2018, Cancer Research UK. Background: Extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a crucial role in tumour behaviour. Prolyl-4-hydroxlase-A2 (P4HA2) is a key enzyme in ECM remodelling. This study aims to evaluate the prognostic significance of P4HA2 in breast... Read More about Prolyl-4-hydroxylase Α subunit 2 (P4HA2) expression is a predictor of poor outcome in breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).

Loss-of-function mutations in ATP6AP1 and ATP6AP2 in granular cell tumors (2018)
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Pareja, F., Brandes, A. H., Basili, T., Selenica, P., Geyer, F. C., Fan, D., …Reis-Filho, J. S. (2018). Loss-of-function mutations in ATP6AP1 and ATP6AP2 in granular cell tumors. Nature Communications, 9, Article 3533. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05886-y

Granular cell tumors (GCTs) are rare tumors that can arise in multiple anatomical locations, and are characterized by abundant intracytoplasmic granules. The genetic drivers of GCTs are currently unknown. Here, we apply whole-exome sequencing and tar... Read More about Loss-of-function mutations in ATP6AP1 and ATP6AP2 in granular cell tumors.

A common classification framework for neuroendocrine neoplasms: an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organization (WHO) expert consensus proposal (2018)
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Rindi, G., Klimstra, D. S., Abedi-Ardekani, B., Asa, S. L., Bosman, F. T., Brambilla, E., …Cree, I. A. (2018). A common classification framework for neuroendocrine neoplasms: an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organization (WHO) expert consensus proposal. Modern Pathology, 31(12), 1770-1786. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41379-018-0110-y

© 2018, United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology. The classification of neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) differs between organ systems and currently causes considerable confusion. A uniform classification framework for NENs at any anatomical lo... Read More about A common classification framework for neuroendocrine neoplasms: an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organization (WHO) expert consensus proposal.

The spectrum of triple-negative breast disease: high- and low-grade lesions (2018)
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Geyer, F. C., Pareja, F., Weigelt, B., Rakha, E., Ellis, I. O., Schnitt, S. J., & Reis-Filho, J. S. (2018). The spectrum of triple-negative breast disease: high- and low-grade lesions. American Journal of Pathology, 187(10), 2139-2151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2017.03.016

Triple-negative breast cancer is viewed clinically as an aggressive subgroup of breast cancer. In fact, most triple-negative breast cancers are poor-prognosis tumors with a complex genomic landscape. However, triple-negative disease is vastly heterog... Read More about The spectrum of triple-negative breast disease: high- and low-grade lesions.

Impact of breast cancer grade discordance on prediction of outcome (2018)
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Rakha, E. A., Aleskandarany, M. A., Toss, M. S., Mongan, N., El-Sayed, M. E., Green, A. R., …Dalton, L. W. (in press). Impact of breast cancer grade discordance on prediction of outcome. Histopathology, https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13709

BACKGROUND: Histological grade is an independent prognostic variable in breast cancer (BC). Previous concordance studies of BC grade have reported moderate levels of agreement; a typical finding in morphological assessment of biological variables. Th... Read More about Impact of breast cancer grade discordance on prediction of outcome.

Inhibition of her2 increases jagged1-dependent breast cancer stem cells: Role for membrane jagged1 (2018)
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Shah, D., Wyatt, D., Baker, A., Simms, P., Peiffer, D. S., Fernandez, M. L., …Osipo, C. (2018). Inhibition of her2 increases jagged1-dependent breast cancer stem cells: Role for membrane jagged1. Clinical Cancer Research, 24(18), 4566-4578. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-1952

© 2018 American Association for Cancer Research. Purpose: HER2-positive breast cancer is driven by cells possessing stem-like properties of self-renewal and differentiation, referred to as cancer stem cells (CSC). CSCs are implicated in radiotherapy... Read More about Inhibition of her2 increases jagged1-dependent breast cancer stem cells: Role for membrane jagged1.

Solid papillary breast carcinomas resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid neoplasms (solid papillary carcinomas with reverse polarity) harbour recurrent mutations affecting IDH2 and PIK3CA: a validation cohort (2018)
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Lozada, J. R., Basili, T., Pareja, F., Alemar, B., Paula, A. D. C., Gularte-Merida, R., …Geyer, F. C. (2018). Solid papillary breast carcinomas resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid neoplasms (solid papillary carcinomas with reverse polarity) harbour recurrent mutations affecting IDH2 and PIK3CA: a validation cohort. Histopathology, 73(2), 339-344. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13522

Aims: Solid papillary breast carcinoma resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid neoplasms (BPTC), also known as solid papillary carcinomawith reverse polarity, is a rare histological type of breast cancer that resembles morphologically t... Read More about Solid papillary breast carcinomas resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid neoplasms (solid papillary carcinomas with reverse polarity) harbour recurrent mutations affecting IDH2 and PIK3CA: a validation cohort.

Panoptic overview of triple-negative breast cancer in Nigeria: current challenges and promising global initiatives (2018)
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Wright, N., Rida, P., Rakha, E., Agboola, A., & Aneja, R. (2018). Panoptic overview of triple-negative breast cancer in Nigeria: current challenges and promising global initiatives. Journal of Global Oncology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1200/jgo.17.00116

Purpose Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most deadly form of breast cancer (BC) today. TNBC treatment is fraught with challenges because of the extensive interpatient heterogeneity in clinical behavior and scarcity of stratifying biomar... Read More about Panoptic overview of triple-negative breast cancer in Nigeria: current challenges and promising global initiatives.

Recurrent hotspot mutations in HRAS Q61 and PI3K-AKT pathway genes as drivers of breast adenomyoepitheliomas (2018)
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Geyer, F. C., Li, A., Papanastasiou, A. D., Smith, A., Selenica, P., Burke, K. A., …Reis-Filho, J. S. (2018). Recurrent hotspot mutations in HRAS Q61 and PI3K-AKT pathway genes as drivers of breast adenomyoepitheliomas. Nature Communications, 9, Article 1816. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04128-5

Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast is a rare tumor characterized by epithelial-myoepithelial differentiation, of which a subset will progress to invasive or metastatic cancer. We sought to define the genomic landscape of adenomyoepitheliomas. Massivel... Read More about Recurrent hotspot mutations in HRAS Q61 and PI3K-AKT pathway genes as drivers of breast adenomyoepitheliomas.

Low expression of G protein-coupled oestrogen receptor 1 (GPER) is associated with adverse survival of breast cancer patients (2018)
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Martin, S. G., Lebot, M. N., Sukkarn, B., Ball, G., Green, A. R., Rakha, E. A., …Storr, S. J. (2018). Low expression of G protein-coupled oestrogen receptor 1 (GPER) is associated with adverse survival of breast cancer patients. Oncotarget, 9(40), 25946-25956. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.25408

G protein-coupled oestrogen receptor 1 (GPER), also called G protein-coupled receptor 30 (GPR30), is attracting considerable attention for its potential role in breast cancer development and progression. Activation by oestrogen (17β-oestradiol; E2) i... Read More about Low expression of G protein-coupled oestrogen receptor 1 (GPER) is associated with adverse survival of breast cancer patients.

Atypical ductal hyperplasia: update on diagnosis, management, and molecular landscape (2018)
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Kader, T., Hill, P., Rakha, E. A., Campbell, I. G., & Gorringe, K. L. (2018). Atypical ductal hyperplasia: update on diagnosis, management, and molecular landscape. Breast Cancer Research, 20, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-018-0967-1

Background Atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) is a common diagnosis in the mammographic era and a significant clinical problem with wide variation in diagnosis and treatment. After a diagnosis of ADH on biopsy a proportion are upgraded to carcinoma u... Read More about Atypical ductal hyperplasia: update on diagnosis, management, and molecular landscape.

Diagnostic concordance of reporting lymphovascular invasion in breast cancer (2018)
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Rakha, E. A., Abbas, A., Pinto Ahumada, P., ElSayed, M. E., Colman, D., Pinder, S. E., & Ellis, I. O. (2018). Diagnostic concordance of reporting lymphovascular invasion in breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 71(9), 802-805. https://doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2017-204981

Aims: This study aims to assess the diagnostic agreement of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) in invasive breast cancer (BC). Methods: Data on LVI were collected from the UK National Health Service Breast Screening Programme pathology external quality... Read More about Diagnostic concordance of reporting lymphovascular invasion in breast cancer.

Prognostic significance of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast (2018)
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Toss, M. S., Miligy, I., Al-Kawaz, A., Alsleem, M., Khout, H., Rida, P. C., …Rakha, E. (in press). Prognostic significance of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. Modern Pathology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41379-018-0040-8

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) provide prognostic value in invasive breast cancer and guidelines for their assessment have been published. This study aims to evaluate: (a) methods of TILs assessment, and (b) their prognostic significance in br... Read More about Prognostic significance of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast.

Breast cancer histologic grading using digital microscopy: concordance and outcome association (2018)
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Rakha, E. A., Aleskandarany, M., Toss, M. S., Green, A. R., Ball, G., Ellis, I. O., & Dalton, L. W. (2018). Breast cancer histologic grading using digital microscopy: concordance and outcome association. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 71(8), 680-686. https://doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2017-204979

AIMS: Virtual microscopy utilising digital whole slide imaging (WSI) is increasingly used in breast pathology. Histologic grade is one of the strongest prognostic factors in breast cancer (BC). This study aims at investigating the agreement between B... Read More about Breast cancer histologic grading using digital microscopy: concordance and outcome association.

Loss of the nuclear pool of ubiquitin ligase CHIP/STUB1 in breast cancer unleashes the MZF1-cathepsin pro-oncogenic program (2018)
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Luan, H., Mohapatra, B. C., Bielecki, T. A., Mushtaq, I., Mirza, S., Jennings, T. A., …Band, H. (2018). Loss of the nuclear pool of ubiquitin ligase CHIP/STUB1 in breast cancer unleashes the MZF1-cathepsin pro-oncogenic program. Cancer Research, 78(10), 2524-2535. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-2140

CHIP/STUB1 ubiquitin ligase is a negative co-chaperone for HSP90/HSC70, and its expression is reduced or lost in several cancers, including breast cancer. Using an extensive and well-annotated breast cancer tissue collection, we identified the loss o... Read More about Loss of the nuclear pool of ubiquitin ligase CHIP/STUB1 in breast cancer unleashes the MZF1-cathepsin pro-oncogenic program.

Immune infiltration in invasive lobular breast cancer (2018)
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Desmedt, C., Salgado, R., Fornili, M., Pruneri, G., Gert Van den Eynden, G., Zoppoli, G., …Sotiriou, C. (2018). Immune infiltration in invasive lobular breast cancer. JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 110(7), 768–776. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djx268

Background: Invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC) is the second most common histological subtype of breast cancer after invasive ductal cancer (IDC). Here, we aimed at evaluating the prevalence, levels and composition of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes... Read More about Immune infiltration in invasive lobular breast cancer.

First international TNBC conference meeting report (2018)
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Rida, P., Ogden, A., Ellis, I. O., Varga, Z., Wolff, A. C., Traina, T. A., …Aneja, R. (2018). First international TNBC conference meeting report. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 169(3), 407-412. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-4692-3

Recently, Georgia State University’s Centennial Hall was the premier location for the 2017 International Conference on Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC): Illuminating Actionable Biology, which was held from Sept. 18 to 20, 2017, in Atlanta, USA. T... Read More about First international TNBC conference meeting report.