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Tripartite Motif Containing 2, a glutamine metabolism-associated protein, predicts poor patient outcome in triple negative breast cancer treated with chemotherapy (2024)
Journal Article
Masisi, B. K., El Ansari, R., Alfarsi, L., Fakroun, A., Erkan, B., Ibrahim, A., Toss, M., Ellis, I. O., Rakha, E. A., & Green, A. R. (2024). Tripartite Motif Containing 2, a glutamine metabolism-associated protein, predicts poor patient outcome in triple negative breast cancer treated with chemotherapy. Cancers, 16(11), Article 1949. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16111949

Background: Breast cancer (BC) remains heterogeneous in terms of prognosis and response to treatment. Metabolic reprogramming is a critical part of oncogenesis and a potential therapeutic target. Glutaminase (GLS), which generates glutamate from glut... Read More about Tripartite Motif Containing 2, a glutamine metabolism-associated protein, predicts poor patient outcome in triple negative breast cancer treated with chemotherapy.

Aurora Kinase A Is an Independent Predictor of Invasive Recurrence in Breast Ductal Carcinoma in situ (2022)
Journal Article
Miligy, I. M., Toss, M. S., Gorringe, K. L., Ellis, I. O., Green, A. R., & Rakha, E. A. (2022). Aurora Kinase A Is an Independent Predictor of Invasive Recurrence in Breast Ductal Carcinoma in situ. Pathobiology, 89(6), 382–392. https://doi.org/10.1159/000522244

Aurora Kinase A (AURKA/STK15) has a role in centrosome duplication and is a regulator of mitotic cell proliferation. It is over-expressed in breast cancer and other cancers, however; its role in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) remains to be defined.... Read More about Aurora Kinase A Is an Independent Predictor of Invasive Recurrence in Breast Ductal Carcinoma in situ.

Epigenome erosion and SOX10 drive neural crest phenotypic mimicry in triple-negative breast cancer (2022)
Journal Article
Saunus, J. M., De Luca, X. M., Northwood, K., Raghavendra, A., Hasson, A., McCart Reed, A. E., …Lakhani, S. R. (2022). Epigenome erosion and SOX10 drive neural crest phenotypic mimicry in triple-negative breast cancer. npj Breast Cancer, 8(1), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-022-00425-x

Intratumoral heterogeneity is caused by genomic instability and phenotypic plasticity, but how these features co-evolve remains unclear. SOX10 is a neural crest stem cell (NCSC) specifier and candidate mediator of phenotypic plasticity in cancer. We... Read More about Epigenome erosion and SOX10 drive neural crest phenotypic mimicry in triple-negative breast cancer.

Breast tumor microenvironment structures are associated with genomic features and clinical outcome (2022)
Journal Article
Danenberg, E., Bardwell, H., Zanotelli, V. R. T., Provenzano, E., Chin, S. F., Rueda, O. M., …Ali, H. R. (2022). Breast tumor microenvironment structures are associated with genomic features and clinical outcome. Nature Genetics, 54, 660–669. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01041-y

The functions of the tumor microenvironment (TME) are orchestrated by precise spatial organization of specialized cells, yet little is known about the multicellular structures that form within the TME. Here we systematically mapped TME structures in... Read More about Breast tumor microenvironment structures are associated with genomic features and clinical outcome.

SLC1A5 co-expression with TALDO1 associates with endocrine therapy failure in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (2021)
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Alfarsi, L. H., Ansari, R. E., Craze, M. L., Mohammed, O. J., Masisi, B. K., Ellis, I. O., …Green, A. R. (2021). SLC1A5 co-expression with TALDO1 associates with endocrine therapy failure in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 189(2), 317-331. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-021-06298-1

Purpose: Identification of effective biomarkers for the benefit of endocrine treatment and understanding the molecular pathways that contribute to the development of resistance are of crucial importance to the management of luminal breast cancer. The... Read More about SLC1A5 co-expression with TALDO1 associates with endocrine therapy failure in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast: A proposal for classification (2021)
Journal Article
Rakha, E., Hoon Tan, P., Ellis, I., & Quinn, C. (2021). Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast: A proposal for classification. Histopathology, 79(4), 465-479. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.14380

Breast lesions with a prominent myoepithelial cell component constitute a heterogeneous group of benign and malignant neoplastic proliferations. These lesions are often dual epithelial‐myoepithelial but may be purely myoepithelial cell in nature. Ben... Read More about Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast: A proposal for classification.

PP1, PKA and DARPP-32 in breast cancer: a retrospective assessment of protein and mRNA expression (2021)
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Saidy, B., Kotecha, S., Butler, A., Rakha, E., Ellis, I., Green, A., …Storr, S. (2021). PP1, PKA and DARPP-32 in breast cancer: a retrospective assessment of protein and mRNA expression. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 25(11), 5015-5024. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.16447

Cyclic-AMP dependent protein kinase A (PKA) and protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) are proteins involved in numerous essential signalling pathways that modulate physiological and pathological functions. Both PP1 and PKA can be inhibited by dopamine and cAMP... Read More about PP1, PKA and DARPP-32 in breast cancer: a retrospective assessment of protein and mRNA expression.

Age-related biology of early-stage operable breast cancer and its impact on clinical outcome (2021)
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Cheung, K. L., Ellis, I. O., Morgan, D. A., Rakha, E. A., Green, A. R., & Syed, B. M. (2021). Age-related biology of early-stage operable breast cancer and its impact on clinical outcome. Cancers, 13(6), Article 1417. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers13061417

As age advances, breast cancer (BC) tends to change its biological characteristics. This study aimed to explore the natural progression of such changes. The study included 2383 women with clinically T0-2N0-1M0 BC, managed by primary surgery and optim... Read More about Age-related biology of early-stage operable breast cancer and its impact on clinical outcome.

Patterns of biomarker expression in patients treated with primary endocrine therapy – a unique insight using core needle biopsy tissue microarray (2020)
Journal Article
Parks, R. M., Albanghali, M. A., Syed, B. M., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., & Cheung, K. L. (2021). Patterns of biomarker expression in patients treated with primary endocrine therapy – a unique insight using core needle biopsy tissue microarray. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 185(3), 647-655. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-020-06023-4

© 2020, The Author(s). Purpose: Prediction of response to primary endocrine therapy (PET) in older women is based on measurement of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PgR) and human epidermal growth factor (HER)-2. This study uses a uniq... Read More about Patterns of biomarker expression in patients treated with primary endocrine therapy – a unique insight using core needle biopsy tissue microarray.

Annual mammographic screening to reduce breast cancer mortality in women from age 40 years: long-term follow-up of the uk age rct (2020)
Journal Article
Duffy, S., Vulkan, D., Cuckle, H., Parmar, D., Sheikh, S., Smith, R., …Moss, S. (2020). Annual mammographic screening to reduce breast cancer mortality in women from age 40 years: long-term follow-up of the uk age rct. Health Technology Assessment, 24(55), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta24550

Background There remains disagreement on the long-term effect of mammographic screening in women aged 40-49 years. Objectives The long-term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial that offered annual mammography to women aged 40-49 years. The esti... Read More about Annual mammographic screening to reduce breast cancer mortality in women from age 40 years: long-term follow-up of the uk age rct.

Markers of steroid receptor, kinase signalling pathways and Ki-67 expression in relation to tamoxifen sensitivity and resistance (2020)
Journal Article
Campbell, C., Mathew, J., Ellis, I. O., Bradbury, I., Borgquist, S., Elebro, K., …Robertson, J. F. R. (2020). Markers of steroid receptor, kinase signalling pathways and Ki-67 expression in relation to tamoxifen sensitivity and resistance. Translational Breast Cancer Research, 1, Article 29. https://doi.org/10.21037/tbcr-20-31

Background: It remains clinically important to identify ER positive breast cancers likely to respond to tamoxifen (TAM) and so we aimed to select a group of biomarkers able to predict response. We also assessed whether data from different sample type... Read More about Markers of steroid receptor, kinase signalling pathways and Ki-67 expression in relation to tamoxifen sensitivity and resistance.

Effect of mammographic screening from age 40 years on breast cancer mortality (UK Age trial): final results of a randomised, controlled trial (2020)
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Duffy, S. W., Vulkan, D., Cuckle, H., Parmar, D., Sheikh, S., Smith, R. A., …Moss, S. M. (2020). Effect of mammographic screening from age 40 years on breast cancer mortality (UK Age trial): final results of a randomised, controlled trial. Lancet Oncology, 21(9), 1165-1172. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045%2820%2930398-3

Background: The appropriate age range for breast cancer screening remains a matter of debate. We aimed to estimate the effect of mammographic screening at ages 40–48 years on breast cancer mortality.

Methods: We did a randomised, controlled trial... Read More about Effect of mammographic screening from age 40 years on breast cancer mortality (UK Age trial): final results of a randomised, controlled trial.

Biology of oestrogen-receptor positive primary of core needle biopsy samples and correlation with clinical outcome (2020)
Journal Article
Parks, R. M., Albanghali, M., Syed, B. M., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., & Cheung, K. L. (2020). Biology of oestrogen-receptor positive primary of core needle biopsy samples and correlation with clinical outcome. Cancers, 12(8), Article 2067. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12082067

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The majority of biological profiling studies use surgical excision (SE) samples, excluding patients receiving nonsurgical and neoadjuvant therapy. We propose using core needle biopsy (CNB) for... Read More about Biology of oestrogen-receptor positive primary of core needle biopsy samples and correlation with clinical outcome.

PPFIA1 expression associates with poor response to endocrine treatment in luminal breast cancer (2020)
Journal Article
Alfarsi, L. H., El Ansari, R., Craze, M. L., Masisi, B. K., Ellis, I. O., Rakha, E. A., & Green, A. R. (2020). PPFIA1 expression associates with poor response to endocrine treatment in luminal breast cancer. BMC Cancer, 20(1), Article 425. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-06939-6

Background
PPFIA1 is an important regulator of cell migration and invasion, regulating focal adhesion signalling and disassembly. PPFIA1 is frequently amplified in breast cancer, and recent functional studies indicate that PPFIA1 is an important pro... Read More about PPFIA1 expression associates with poor response to endocrine treatment in luminal breast cancer.

The solute carrier SLC7A8 is a marker of favourable prognosis in ER-positive low proliferative invasive breast cancer (2020)
Journal Article
Ansari, R., Craze, M. L., Alfarsi, L., Masisi, B. K., Ellis, I. O., Rakha, E. A., & Green, A. R. (2020). The solute carrier SLC7A8 is a marker of favourable prognosis in ER-positive low proliferative invasive breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 181(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-020-05586-6

Purpose: Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous disease consisting of various subtypes, with
different prognostic and therapeutic outcomes. The amino acid transporter, SLC7A8, is over expressed in estrogen receptor positive BC. However the consequenc... Read More about The solute carrier SLC7A8 is a marker of favourable prognosis in ER-positive low proliferative invasive breast cancer.

Co-Expression Effect of SLC7A5/SLC3A2 to Predict Response to Endocrine Therapy in Oestrogen-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer (2020)
Journal Article
Alfarsi, L. H., El-Ansari, R., Craze, M. L., Masisi, B. K., Mohammed, O. J., Rakha, E. A., …Green, A. R. (2020). Co-Expression Effect of SLC7A5/SLC3A2 to Predict Response to Endocrine Therapy in Oestrogen-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(4), Article 1407. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21041407

The majority of breast cancers are oestrogen receptor positive (ER+) and are subject to endocrine therapy however, an unpredictable subgroup of patients will develop resistance to endocrine therapy. SLC7A5/SLC3A2 complex is a major route for the tran... Read More about Co-Expression Effect of SLC7A5/SLC3A2 to Predict Response to Endocrine Therapy in Oestrogen-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer.

Enhanced glutamine uptake influences composition of immune cell infiltrates in breast cancer (2019)
Journal Article
Ansari, R. E., Craze, M. L., Althobiti, M., Alfarsi, L., Ellis, I. O., Rakha, E. A., & Green, A. R. (2019). Enhanced glutamine uptake influences composition of immune cell infiltrates in breast cancer. British Journal of Cancer, 122(1), 94–101. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-019-0626-z

Background: Cancer cells must alter their metabolism to support proliferation. Immune evasion also plays a role in supporting tumour progression. This study aimed to find whether enhanced glutamine uptake in breast cancer (BC) can derive the existenc... Read More about Enhanced glutamine uptake influences composition of immune cell infiltrates in breast cancer.

Dopamine and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein 32 kDa (DARPP-32) and survival in breast cancer: a retrospective analysis of protein and mRNA expression (2019)
Journal Article
Kotecha, S., Lebot, M. N., Sukkarn, B., Ball, G., Moseley, P. M., Chan, S. Y., …Storr, S. J. (2019). Dopamine and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein 32 kDa (DARPP-32) and survival in breast cancer: a retrospective analysis of protein and mRNA expression. Scientific Reports, 9, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53529-z

Dopamine and cAMP regulated phosphoprotein 32 kDa (DARPP-32) also known as phosphoprotein phosphatase-1 regulatory subunit 1B and encoded by the PPP1R1B gene is an inhibitor of protein phosphatase-1 and protein kinase A. DARPP-32 is expressed in a wi... Read More about Dopamine and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein 32 kDa (DARPP-32) and survival in breast cancer: a retrospective analysis of protein and mRNA expression.

Dual Adaptive Pyramid Network for Cross-Stain Histopathology Image Segmentation (2019)
Book Chapter
Hou, X., Liu, J., Xu, B., Liu, B., Chen, X., Garibaldi, J., …Qiu, G. (2019). Dual Adaptive Pyramid Network for Cross-Stain Histopathology Image Segmentation. In Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2019: 22nd International Conference, Shenzhen, China, October 13–17, 2019, Proceedings, Part II (101-109). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32245-8_12

Supervised semantic segmentation normally assumes the test data being in a similar data domain as the training data. However, in practice, the domain mismatch between the training and unseen data could lead to a significant performance drop. Obtainin... Read More about Dual Adaptive Pyramid Network for Cross-Stain Histopathology Image Segmentation.

Activated zinc transporter ZIP7 as an indicator of anti-hormone resistance in breast cancer (2019)
Journal Article
Taylor, K. M., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., Gee, J. M. W., Ziliotto, S., Zilio, S., …Taylor, K. M. (2019). Activated zinc transporter ZIP7 as an indicator of anti-hormone resistance in breast cancer. Metallomics, 11(9), 1579-1592. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9mt00136k

ZIP7, a member of the ZIP family of zinc importers, resides on the endoplasmic reticulum membrane and transports zinc from intracellular stores to the cytoplasm after activation by CK2 phosphorylation on two serine residues (S275 and S276). ZIP7 is k... Read More about Activated zinc transporter ZIP7 as an indicator of anti-hormone resistance in breast cancer.