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Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of Ras association and pleckstrin homology domains 1 (RAPH1) in breast cancer (2018)
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Kurozumi, S., Joseph, C., Sonbul, S., Aleskandarany, M. A., Pigera, M., Alsaleem, M., …Rakha, E. A. (2018). Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of Ras association and pleckstrin homology domains 1 (RAPH1) in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 172(1), 61–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-4891-y

BACKGROUND: Ras association and pleckstrin homology domains 1 (RAPH1) is involved in cytoskeleton regulation and re-epithelialisation in invasive carcinoma and therefore may play a key role in carcinogenesis and metastasis. We herein investigated the... Read More about Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of Ras association and pleckstrin homology domains 1 (RAPH1) in breast cancer.

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.

Breast cancer intratumour heterogeneity: current status and clinical implications (2018)
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Joseph, C., Papadaki, A., Althobiti, M., Alsaleem, M., Aleskandarany, M. A., & Rakha, E. A. (2018). Breast cancer intratumour heterogeneity: current status and clinical implications. Histopathology, 73(5), (717-731). doi:10.1111/his.13642. ISSN 0309-0167

Breast cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous disease that varies in presentation, morphological features, behaviour, and response to therapy. High?throughput molecular profiling studies have revolutionised our understanding of BC heterogeneity, and have dem... Read More about Breast cancer intratumour heterogeneity: current status and clinical implications.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae-like 1 (SEC14L1) is a prognostic factor in breast cancer associated with lymphovascular invasion (2018)
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Sonbul, S. N., Aleskandarany, M. A., Kurozumi, S., Joseph, C., Toss, M. S., Diez-Rodriguez, M., …Rakha, E. A. (in press). Saccharomyces cerevisiae-like 1 (SEC14L1) is a prognostic factor in breast cancer associated with lymphovascular invasion. Modern Pathology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41379-018-0092-9

Lymphovascular invasion is strongly related to breast cancer metastasis. However, the underlying mechanisms of lymphovascular invasion and its driver molecules in breast cancer remain to be defined. In this study, we explore differential expression o... Read More about Saccharomyces cerevisiae-like 1 (SEC14L1) is a prognostic factor in breast cancer associated with lymphovascular invasion.

Heterogeneity of Tumour Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) in breast cancer and its prognostic significance (2018)
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Althobiti, M., Aleskandarany, M. A., Joseph, C., Toss, M., Mongan, N., Diez-Rodriguez, M., …Rakha, E. A. (2018). Heterogeneity of Tumour Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) in breast cancer and its prognostic significance. Histopathology, 73(6), 887-896. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13695

Background: Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in breast cancer (BC) confer prognostic and predictive information. This study aims to assess the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of TILs in BC and its relationship with immune cell subtypes. Met... Read More about Heterogeneity of Tumour Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) in breast cancer and its prognostic significance.

Tumour heterogeneity of breast cancer: from morphology to personalised medicine (2018)
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Aleskandarany, M. A., Vandenberghe, M. E., Marchiò, C., Ellis, I. O., Sapino, A., & Rakha, E. A. (2018). Tumour heterogeneity of breast cancer: from morphology to personalised medicine. Pathobiology, 85(1-2), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1159/000477851

Breast cancer (BC) displays striking clinical, morphological, and behavioural diversity within a single tumour and between tumours. Currently, mounting evidence indicates that the morphological heterogeneity of BC reflects an underlying spectrum of g... Read More about Tumour heterogeneity of breast cancer: from morphology to personalised medicine.

Mediator complex (MED) 7: a biomarker associated with good prognosis in invasive breast cancer, especially ER+ luminal subtypes (2018)
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Joseph, C., Macnamara, O., Craze, M., Russell, R., Provenzano, E., Nolan, C. C., …Mukherjee, A. (in press). Mediator complex (MED) 7: a biomarker associated with good prognosis in invasive breast cancer, especially ER+ luminal subtypes. British Journal of Cancer, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-018-0041-x

Background: Mediator complex (MED) proteins have a key role in transcriptional regulation, some interacting with the oestrogen receptor (ER). Interrogation of the METABRIC cohort suggested that MED7 may regulate lymphovascular invasion (LVI). Thus ME... Read More about Mediator complex (MED) 7: a biomarker associated with good prognosis in invasive breast cancer, especially ER+ luminal subtypes.

Breast cancer histologic grading using digital microscopy: concordance and outcome association (2018)
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Rakha, E. A., Aleskandarani, 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. doi: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.

MYC regulation of Glutamine-Proline regulatory axis is key in Luminal B breast cancer (2017)
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Craze, M. L., Cheung, H., Jewa, N., Coimbra, N. D., Soria, D., El-Ansari, R., …Green, A. R. (in press). MYC regulation of Glutamine-Proline regulatory axis is key in Luminal B breast cancer. British Journal of Cancer, https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2017.387

Background: Altered cellular metabolism is a hallmark of cancer and some are reliant on Glutamine for sustained proliferation and survival. We hypothesise that the Glutamine-Proline regulatory axis has a key role in Breast cancer (BC) in the highly p... Read More about MYC regulation of Glutamine-Proline regulatory axis is key in Luminal B breast cancer.

Rho-GTPase activating-protein 18: A biomarker associated with good prognosis in invasive breast cancer (2017)
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Aleskandarany, M. A., Sonbul, S. N., Surridge, R., Mukherjee, A., Caldas, C., Diez-Rodriguez, M., …Rakha, E. A. (2017). Rho-GTPase activating-protein 18: A biomarker associated with good prognosis in invasive breast cancer. British Journal of Cancer, 117(8), 1176-1184. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2017.261

© 2017 Cancer Research UK. All rights reserved. Background:The prognostic value of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) in breast cancer (BC) has been demonstrated in several independent studies. However, identification of driver molecules for LVI remains a... Read More about Rho-GTPase activating-protein 18: A biomarker associated with good prognosis in invasive breast cancer.

Novel immunohistochemistry-based signatures to predict metastatic site of triple-negative breast cancers (2017)
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Klimov, S., Rida, P. C., Aleskandarany, M. A., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., Janssen, E. A., …Aneja, R. (2017). Novel immunohistochemistry-based signatures to predict metastatic site of triple-negative breast cancers. British Journal of Cancer, 117(6), 826-834. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2017.224

Background: Although distant metastasis (DM) in breast cancer (BC) is the most lethal form of recurrence and the most common underlying cause of cancer related deaths, the outcome following the development of DM is related to the site of metastasis.... Read More about Novel immunohistochemistry-based signatures to predict metastatic site of triple-negative breast cancers.

Ki67 expression in invasive breast cancer: the use of tissue microarrays compared with whole tissue sections (2017)
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Muftah, A. A., Aleskandarany, M. A., Al-kaabi, M. M., Sonbul, S. N., Diez-Rodriguez, M., Nolan, C. C., …Green, A. R. (2017). Ki67 expression in invasive breast cancer: the use of tissue microarrays compared with whole tissue sections. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 164(2), 341-348. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-017-4270-0

Background: Although the prognostic value of Ki67 in breast cancer is well documented, using optimal cut-points for patient stratification, reproducibility of the scoring and interpretation of the results remain a matter of debate particularly when u... Read More about Ki67 expression in invasive breast cancer: the use of tissue microarrays compared with whole tissue sections.

Chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 7 (CCR7) associates with the tumour immune microenvironment but not progression in invasive breast carcinoma (2017)
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Sonbul, S. N., Gorringe, K. L., Aleskandarany, M. A., Mukherjee, A., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., & Rakha, E. A. (2017). Chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 7 (CCR7) associates with the tumour immune microenvironment but not progression in invasive breast carcinoma. Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research, 3(2), 105-114. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjp2.65

Some previous studies have reported that the chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 7 (CCR7) plays a role in breast cancer, is associated with lymph node metastasis and drives the site of distant metastasis. However, the impact of its expression on patient o... Read More about Chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 7 (CCR7) associates with the tumour immune microenvironment but not progression in invasive breast carcinoma.

Prognostic significance of tumour infiltrating B-Lymphocytes in breast ductal carcinoma in situ (2017)
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Miligy, I., Mohan, P., Gaber, A., Aleskandarany, M. A., Nolan, C. C., Diez‐Rodriguez, M., …Rakha, E. A. (2017). Prognostic significance of tumour infiltrating B-Lymphocytes in breast ductal carcinoma in situ. Histopathology, 71(2), 258-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13217

Aims: Tumour?infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are an important component of the immune response to cancer and have a prognostic value in breast cancer. Although several studies have investigated the role of T lymphocytes in breast cancer, the role of... Read More about Prognostic significance of tumour infiltrating B-Lymphocytes in breast ductal carcinoma in situ.

Clinical impact of tumor DNA repair expression and T-cell infiltration in breast cancers (2017)
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Green, A. R., Aleskandarany, M. A., Ali, R., Hodgson, E. G., Atabani, S., De Souza, K., …Madhusudan, S. (2017). Clinical impact of tumor DNA repair expression and T-cell infiltration in breast cancers. Cancer Immunology Research, 5(4), 292-299. https://doi.org/10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-16-0195

© 2017 American Association for Cancer Research. Impaired DNA repair drives mutagenicity, which increases neoantigen load and immunogenicity. We investigated the expression of proteins involved in the DNA damage response (ATM, Chk2), double-strand br... Read More about Clinical impact of tumor DNA repair expression and T-cell infiltration in breast cancers.

ADA3 regulates normal and tumor mammary epithelial cell proliferation through c-MYC (2016)
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Griffin, N. I., Sharma, G., Zhao, X., Mirza, S., Srivastava, S., Dave, B. J., …Band, V. (2016). ADA3 regulates normal and tumor mammary epithelial cell proliferation through c-MYC. Breast Cancer Research, 18(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-016-0770-9

Background: We have established the critical role of ADA3 as a coactivator of estrogen receptor (ER), as well as its role in cell cycle progression. Furthermore, we showed that ADA3 is predominantly nuclear in mammary epithelium, and in ER+, but is... Read More about ADA3 regulates normal and tumor mammary epithelial cell proliferation through c-MYC.

Clinicopathological and functional significance of RECQL1 helicase in sporadic breast cancers (2016)
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Arora, A., Parvathaneni, S., Aleskandarany, M. A., Agarwal, D., Ali, R., Abdel-Fatah, T., …Madhusudan, S. (2017). Clinicopathological and functional significance of RECQL1 helicase in sporadic breast cancers. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-16-0290

RECQL1, a key member of the RecQ family of DNA helicases, is required for DNA replication and DNA repair. Two recent studies have shown that germline RECQL1 mutations are associated with increased breast cancer susceptibility. Whether altered RECQL1... Read More about Clinicopathological and functional significance of RECQL1 helicase in sporadic breast cancers.

Further evidence to support bimodality of oestrogen receptor expression in breast cancer (2016)
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Muftah, A. A., Aleskandarany, M., Sonbul, S. N., Nolan, C. C., Diez Rodriguez, M., Caldas, C., …Rakha, E. A. (2017). Further evidence to support bimodality of oestrogen receptor expression in breast cancer. Histopathology, 70(3), 456-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13089

Aims: Although oestrogen receptor (ER)‐negative breast cancers (BCs) do not respond to hormone therapy, the response of ER‐positive BCs is reported to be variable, which may suggest a dose‐dependent effect. The aim of this study was to assess the pat... Read More about Further evidence to support bimodality of oestrogen receptor expression in breast cancer.

Prognostic significance of androgen receptor expression in invasive breast cancer: transcriptomic and protein expression analysis (2016)
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Aleskandarany, M. A., Abduljabbar, R., Ashankyty, I., Elmouna, A., Jerjees, D., Ali, S., …Rakha, E. A. (2016). Prognostic significance of androgen receptor expression in invasive breast cancer: transcriptomic and protein expression analysis. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 159(2), 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-016-3934-5

Differential prognostic roles of Androgen Receptor (AR) have been proposed in breast cancer (BC) depending on tumour oestrogen receptor (ER) status. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic and/or predictive significance of AR expression in invasi... Read More about Prognostic significance of androgen receptor expression in invasive breast cancer: transcriptomic and protein expression analysis.

Clinical and biological significance of RAD51 expression in breast cancer: a key DNA damage response protein (2016)
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Alshareeda, A., Negm, O. H., Aleskandarany, M. A., Green, A. R., Nolan, C., Tighe, P. J., …Rakha, E. (2016). Clinical and biological significance of RAD51 expression in breast cancer: a key DNA damage response protein. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 159(1), 41-53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-016-3915-8

Impaired DNA damage response (DDR) may play a fundamental role in the pathogenesis of breast cancer (BC). RAD51 is a key player in DNA double-strand break repair. In this study, we aimed to assess the biological and clinical significance of RAD51 exp... Read More about Clinical and biological significance of RAD51 expression in breast cancer: a key DNA damage response protein.