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IL-6 and IL-10 are associated with good prognosis in early stage invasive breast cancer patients (2017)
Journal Article
Ahmad, N., Ammar, A., Storr, S. J., Green, A. R., Rakha, E., Ellis, I., & Martin, S. G. (2018). IL-6 and IL-10 are associated with good prognosis in early stage invasive breast cancer patients. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 67(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-017-2106-8

Macrophage-associated cytokines play an important role in cancer metastasis however the functions of Interleukins (IL) 6 and 10 in breast cancer (BC) progression and metastasis are not clear. In this study the roles of IL-6/IL-10 in regulating vascul... Read More about IL-6 and IL-10 are associated with good prognosis in early stage invasive breast cancer patients.

Macrophage-derived interleukin-1beta promotes human breast cancer cell migration and lymphatic adhesion in vitro (2017)
Journal Article
Storr, S. J., Safuan, S., Ahmad, N., El-Refaee, M., Jackson, A. M., & Martin, S. G. (2017). Macrophage-derived interleukin-1beta promotes human breast cancer cell migration and lymphatic adhesion in vitro. Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 66(10), 1287-1294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-017-2020-0

Lymphovascular invasion (LVI), encompassing blood and lymphatic vessel invasion, is an important event in tumourigenesis. Macrophages within the tumour microenvironment are linked to the presence of LVI and angiogenesis. This study investigates the r... Read More about Macrophage-derived interleukin-1beta promotes human breast cancer cell migration and lymphatic adhesion in vitro.

Caspase-3 and caspase-8 expression in breast cancer: caspase-3 is associated with survival (2016)
Journal Article
Xuan, P., Storr, S. J., Zhang, Y., Rakha, E., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., & Martin, S. G. (in press). Caspase-3 and caspase-8 expression in breast cancer: caspase-3 is associated with survival. Apoptosis, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10495-016-1323-5

Impaired apoptosis is one of the hallmarks of cancer. Caspase-3 and -8 are key regulators of the apoptotic response and have been shown to interact with the calpain family, a group of cysteine proteases, during tumorigenesis. The current study sought... Read More about Caspase-3 and caspase-8 expression in breast cancer: caspase-3 is associated with survival.

The calpain system is associated with survival of breast cancer patients with large but operable inflammatory and non-inflammatory tumours treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (2016)
Journal Article
Storr, S. J., Zhang, S., Perren, T., Lansdown, M., Fatayer, H., Sharma, N., Gahlaut, R., Shaaban, A., & Martin, S. G. (2016). The calpain system is associated with survival of breast cancer patients with large but operable inflammatory and non-inflammatory tumours treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Oncotarget, 7(30), 47927-47937. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.10066

The calpains are a family of intracellular cysteine proteases that function in a variety of important cellular functions, including cell signalling, motility, apoptosis and survival. In early invasive breast cancer expression of calpain-1, calpain-2... Read More about The calpain system is associated with survival of breast cancer patients with large but operable inflammatory and non-inflammatory tumours treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Immunohistochemical Assessment of Leukocyte Involvement in Angiogenesis (2016)
Book Chapter
Ahmad, N. S., Martin, S. G., & Storr, S. J. (2016). Immunohistochemical Assessment of Leukocyte Involvement in Angiogenesis. In Angiogenesis Protocols (49-57). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3628-1_3

Angiogenesis is a hallmark of cancer and is important for tumor growth, development, and metastasis. Leukocytes, including neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes, are found invading many solid tumors, and this inflammation is... Read More about Immunohistochemical Assessment of Leukocyte Involvement in Angiogenesis.

Lymphovascular invasion assessment and prognostic impact in melanoma and breast cancer (2015)
Journal Article
Thompson, N., Storr, S., Zhang, S., & Martin, S. (2015). Lymphovascular invasion assessment and prognostic impact in melanoma and breast cancer. Histology and Histopathology, 30(9), 1001-1009. https://doi.org/10.14670/HH-11-615

© 2015, Histology and Histopathology. All rights reserved. The presence of lymphovascular invasion is a recognised poor prognostic factor in a wide range of tumour types. Vascular invasion was historically identified through haematoxylin and eosin st... Read More about Lymphovascular invasion assessment and prognostic impact in melanoma and breast cancer.

FKBPL: a marker of good prognosis in breast cancer (2015)
Journal Article
Nelson, L., McKeen, H. D., Ellis, I., Rakha, E., Marshall, A., Mulrane, L., Starczynski, J., Storr, S. J., Lanigan, F., Byrne, C., Arthur, K., Hegarty, S., Abdunnabi Ali, A., Furlong, F., McCarthy, H. O., Ellis, I. O., Green, A. R., Rakha, E., Young, L., Kunkler, I., …Robson, T. (2015). FKBPL: a marker of good prognosis in breast cancer. Oncotarget, 6(14), 12209-12223. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.3528

FK506-binding protein-like (FKBPL) has established roles as an anti-tumor protein, with a therapeutic peptide based on this protein, ALM201, shortly entering phase I/II clinical trials. Here, we evaluated FKBPL’s prognostic ability in primary breast... Read More about FKBPL: a marker of good prognosis in breast cancer.

Low calpain-9 is associated with adverse disease-specific survival following endocrine therapy in breast cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Davis, J., Martin, S. G., Patel, P. M., Green, A. R., Rakha, E. A., Ellis, I. O., & Storr, S. J. (2014). Low calpain-9 is associated with adverse disease-specific survival following endocrine therapy in breast cancer. BMC Cancer, 14(1), Article 995. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-995

Background

The calpains are intracellular cysteine proteases that function in a variety of important cellular functions, including signalling, motility, apoptosis and survival. In breast cancer high calpain-1 and calpain-2 expression has been asso... Read More about Low calpain-9 is associated with adverse disease-specific survival following endocrine therapy in breast cancer.

Involvement of metformin and AMPK in the radioresponse and prognosis of luminal versus basal-like breast cancer treated with radiotherapy (2014)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Storr, S. J., Johnson, K., Green, A. R., Rakha, E. A., Ellis, I. O., Morgan, D. A., & Martin, S. G. (2014). Involvement of metformin and AMPK in the radioresponse and prognosis of luminal versus basal-like breast cancer treated with radiotherapy. Oncotarget, 5(24), https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.2683

Metformin is under evaluation as a potential anticancer agent. Expression of total and phospho(Thr172)-adenosine monophosphate-activated kinase-α (AMPKα and pAMPKα(Thr172) respectively), a main metformin target, was examined in radiotherapy treated b... Read More about Involvement of metformin and AMPK in the radioresponse and prognosis of luminal versus basal-like breast cancer treated with radiotherapy.

The clinicopathological and gene expression patterns associated with ulceration of primary melanoma (2014)
Journal Article
Jewell, R., Elliott, F., Laye, J., Nsengimana, J., Davies, J., Walker, C., Conway, C., Mitra, A., Harland, M., Cook, M. G., Boon, A., STORR, S., Safuan, S., MARTIN, S., Jirström, K., Olsson, H., Ingvar, C., Lauss, M., Bishop, T., Jönsson, G., & Newton‐Bishop, J. (2015). The clinicopathological and gene expression patterns associated with ulceration of primary melanoma. Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research, 28(1), 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/pcmr.12315

Are DNA repair factors promising biomarkers for personalized therapy in gastric cancer? (2013)
Journal Article
Abdel-Fatah, T., Arora, A., Gorguc, I., Abbotts, R., Beebeejaun, S., Storr, S. J., Mohan, V., Hawkes, C., Soomro, I. N., Lobo, D. N., Parsons, S. L., & Madhusudan, S. (2013). Are DNA repair factors promising biomarkers for personalized therapy in gastric cancer?. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, 18(18), https://doi.org/10.1089/ars.2012.4873

Chronic inflammation is a driving force for gastric carcinogenesis. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated during the inflammatory process generates DNA damage that is processed through the DNA repair pathways. In this study, we profiled key DNA rep... Read More about Are DNA repair factors promising biomarkers for personalized therapy in gastric cancer?.

A comparative study of adhesion of melanoma and breast cancer cells to blood and lymphatic endothelium (2012)
Journal Article
Safuan, S., Storr, S. J., Patel, P. M., & Martin, S. G. (2012). A comparative study of adhesion of melanoma and breast cancer cells to blood and lymphatic endothelium. Lymphatic Research and Biology, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.1089/lrb.2012.0007

Background: Lymphovascular invasion (LVI) is an important step in the metastatic cascade; tumor cell migration
and adhesion to blood and lymphatic vessels is followed by invasion through the vessel wall and subsequent
systemic spread. Although prim... Read More about A comparative study of adhesion of melanoma and breast cancer cells to blood and lymphatic endothelium.

Calpain system protein expression in carcinomas of the pancreas, bile duct and ampulla (2012)
Journal Article
Storr, S. J., Zaitoun, A. M., Arora, A., Durrant, L. G., Lobo, D. N., Madhusudan, S., & Martin, S. G. (2012). Calpain system protein expression in carcinomas of the pancreas, bile duct and ampulla. BMC Cancer, 12(511), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-511

Background: Pancreatic cancer, including cancer of the ampulla of Vater and bile duct, is very aggressive and has a
poor five year survival rate; improved methods of patient stratification are required.
Methods: We assessed the expression of calpai... Read More about Calpain system protein expression in carcinomas of the pancreas, bile duct and ampulla.

Calpain-2 expression is associated with response to platinum based chemotherapy, progression-free and overall survival in ovarian cancer (2012)
Journal Article
Storr, S. J., Safuan, S., Woolston, C. M., Abdel-Fatah, T., Deen, S., Chan, S. Y., & Martin, S. G. (2012). Calpain-2 expression is associated with response to platinum based chemotherapy, progression-free and overall survival in ovarian cancer. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 16(10), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1582-4934.2012.01559.x

Ovarian cancer is routinely treated with surgery and platinum-based chemotherapy. Resistance is a major obstacle in the efficacy of this chemotherapy
regimen and the ability to identify those patients at risk of developing resistance is of considera... Read More about Calpain-2 expression is associated with response to platinum based chemotherapy, progression-free and overall survival in ovarian cancer.

Calpain system protein expression in basal-like and triple-negative invasive breast cancer (2012)
Journal Article
triple-negative invasive breast cancer. Annals of Oncology, 23(9), https://doi.org/10.1093/annonc/mds176

Background: Basal-like and triple-negative breast tumours encompass an important clinical subgroup and
biomarkers that can prognostically stratify these patients are required.
Materials and methods: We investigated two breast cancer tissue microarr... Read More about Calpain system protein expression in basal-like and triple-negative invasive breast cancer.