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  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
6,841 Views
17 Pages

MiR-205 Dysregulations in Breast Cancer: The Complexity and Opportunities

  • Yajuan Xiao,
  • Brock Humphries,
  • Chengfeng Yang and
  • Zhishan Wang

19 November 2019

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous non-coding small RNAs that downregulate target gene expression by imperfect base-pairing with the 3′ untranslated regions (3′UTRs) of target gene mRNAs. MiRNAs play important roles in regulating cancer ce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,579 Views
23 Pages

Mapping of Genomic Vulnerabilities in the Post-Translational Ubiquitination, SUMOylation and Neddylation Machinery in Breast Cancer

  • Jesús Fuentes-Antrás,
  • Ana Lucía Alcaraz-Sanabria,
  • Esther Cabañas Morafraile,
  • María del Mar Noblejas-López,
  • Eva María Galán-Moya,
  • Mariona Baliu-Pique,
  • Igor López-Cade,
  • Vanesa García-Barberán,
  • Pedro Pérez-Segura and
  • Alberto Ocaña
  • + 3 authors

17 February 2021

The dysregulation of post-translational modifications (PTM) transversally impacts cancer hallmarks and constitutes an appealing vulnerability for drug development. In breast cancer there is growing preclinical evidence of the role of ubiquitin and ub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,806 Views
12 Pages

Triple Negative Breast Cancer: An Analysis of the Subtypes and the Effects of Menopausal Status on Invasive Breast Cancer

  • Reiki Nishimura,
  • Tomofumi Osako,
  • Yasuhiro Okumura,
  • Masahiro Nakano,
  • Hiroko Otsuka,
  • Mamiko Fujisue and
  • Nobuyuki Arima

22 April 2022

Background: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer which lacks hormone receptor (HR) expression and HER2 gene amplification and is the most aggressive subtype, with a heterogeneous genetic profile. The aim of this retrospe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,111 Views
15 Pages

Biomarker Dynamics and Long-Term Treatment Outcomes in Breast Cancer Patients with Residual Cancer Burden after Neoadjuvant Therapy

  • Milos Holanek,
  • Iveta Selingerova,
  • Pavel Fabian,
  • Oldrich Coufal,
  • Ondrej Zapletal,
  • Katarina Petrakova,
  • Tomas Kazda,
  • Roman Hrstka,
  • Alexandr Poprach and
  • Marek Svoboda
  • + 2 authors

A residual cancer burden after neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) for breast cancer (BC) is associated with worse treatment outcomes compared to patients who achieved pathologic complete remission. This single-institutional retrospective study of 767 consecut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,208 Views
21 Pages

Early-Stage Luminal B-like Breast Cancer Exhibits a More Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment than Luminal A-like Breast Cancer

  • Tânia Moura,
  • Olga Caramelo,
  • Isabel Silva,
  • Sandra Silva,
  • Manuela Gonçalo,
  • Maria Antónia Portilha,
  • João N. Moreira,
  • Ana M. Gil,
  • Paula Laranjeira and
  • Artur Paiva

7 January 2025

Background: Breast cancer is a heterogeneous malignant disease with a varying prognosis and is classified into four molecular subtypes. It remains one of the most prevalent cancers globally, with the tumor microenvironment playing a critical role in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,127 Views
17 Pages

MALINC1 an Immune-Related Long Non-Coding RNA Associated with Early-Stage Breast Cancer Progression

  • María Laura Fabre,
  • Romina Canzoneri,
  • Agustina Gurruchaga,
  • Jaeho Lee,
  • Pradeep Tatineni,
  • Hyunsuk Kil,
  • Ezequiel Lacunza,
  • C. Marcelo Aldaz and
  • Martín Carlos Abba

7 June 2022

Long non-coding RNAs are increasingly being recognized as cancer biomarkers in various malignancies, acting as either tumor suppressors or oncogenes. The long non-coding MALINC1 intergenic RNA was identified as significantly upregulated in breast duc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,562 Views
15 Pages

Melatonin MT1 Receptor Expression in Luminal Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma in Postmenopausal Women

  • Leda Pistiolis,
  • Sahar Alawieh,
  • Thorhildur Halldorsdottir,
  • Anikó Kovács and
  • Roger Olofsson Bagge

15 April 2025

Laboratory and animal studies indicate that melatonin exerts a negative impact on breast cancer progression and metastasis. These actions are both receptor-dependent and -independent. Of the two transmembrane melatonin receptors identified in humans,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,764 Views
14 Pages

Patterns of Chromosomal Instability and Clonal Heterogeneity in Luminal B Breast Cancer: A Pilot Study

  • Valentina Camargo-Herrera,
  • Giovanny Castellanos,
  • Nelson Rangel,
  • Guillermo Antonio Jiménez-Tobón,
  • María Martínez-Agüero and
  • Milena Rondón-Lagos

Chromosomal instability (CIN), defined by variations in the number or structure of chromosomes from cell to cell, is recognized as a distinctive characteristic of cancer associated with the ability of tumors to adapt to challenging environments. CIN...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,023 Views
34 Pages

Emerging Breast Cancer Subpopulations: Functional Heterogeneity Beyond the Classical Subtypes

  • Amalia Kotsifaki,
  • Georgia Kalouda,
  • Efthymios Karalexis,
  • Martha Stathaki,
  • Georgios Metaxas and
  • Athanasios Armakolas

29 November 2025

Breast cancer (BC) is increasingly recognized as a heterogeneous disease, with complexity that extends beyond the classical luminal A/B, HER2-enriched, and triple-negative framework. Advances in molecular and functional profiling have uncovered emerg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,051 Views
18 Pages

Breast Tumor Characterization Using [18F]FDG-PET/CT Imaging Combined with Data Preprocessing and Radiomics

  • Denis Krajnc,
  • Laszlo Papp,
  • Thomas S. Nakuz,
  • Heinrich F. Magometschnigg,
  • Marko Grahovac,
  • Clemens P. Spielvogel,
  • Boglarka Ecsedi,
  • Zsuzsanna Bago-Horvath,
  • Alexander Haug and
  • Katja Pinker
  • + 4 authors

12 March 2021

Background: This study investigated the performance of ensemble learning holomic models for the detection of breast cancer, receptor status, proliferation rate, and molecular subtypes from [18F]FDG-PET/CT images with and without incorporating data pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,639 Views
14 Pages

Clinical Meaning of Stromal Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (sTIL) in Early Luminal B Breast Cancer

  • Esmeralda García-Torralba,
  • Miguel Pérez Ramos,
  • Alejandra Ivars Rubio,
  • Esther Navarro-Manzano,
  • Noel Blaya Boluda,
  • Pilar de la Morena Barrio,
  • Elisa García-Garre,
  • Francisco Martínez Díaz,
  • Asunción Chaves-Benito and
  • Francisco Ayala de la Peña
  • + 1 author

20 May 2023

Luminal breast cancer (BC) is associated with less immune activation, and the significance of stromal lymphocytic infiltration (sTIL) is more uncertain than in other BC subtypes. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive and prognostic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,480 Views
20 Pages

Correlation between Androgen Receptor Expression in Luminal B (HER–2 Negative) Breast Cancer and Disease Outcomes

  • Fan Yang,
  • Jiayi Li,
  • Hong Zhang,
  • Shuang Zhang,
  • Jingming Ye,
  • Yuanjia Cheng,
  • Qian Liu,
  • Ling Xin,
  • Hongyu Xiang and
  • Ling Xu
  • + 2 authors

1 December 2022

(1) Background: Hormone receptor positive breast cancer is a subtype of breast cancer with relatively good prognosis, but luminal B (HER–2 negative) breast cancer has a higher risk of recurrence and metastasis. Patients with endocrine therapy r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,533 Views
20 Pages

MEK1 Inhibitor Combined with Irradiation Reduces Migration of Breast Cancer Cells Including miR-221 and ZEB1 EMT Marker Expression

  • Nataša Anastasov,
  • Elisabeth Hirmer,
  • Marbod Klenner,
  • Jessica Ott,
  • Natalie Falkenberg,
  • Xuanwen Bao,
  • Lisa Mutschelknaus,
  • Simone Moertl,
  • Stephanie Combs and
  • Thomas Schmid
  • + 1 author

14 December 2020

The miR-221 expression is dependent on the oncogenic RAS-RAF-MEK pathway activation and influences epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database analysis showed high gene significance for ZEB1 with EMT module ana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,665 Views
18 Pages

Personalizing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: The Impact of BRCA Variants on Pathologic Complete Response in Luminal B Breast Cancer

  • Alba Di Leone,
  • Antonio Franco,
  • Virginia Castagnetta,
  • Marta Silenzi,
  • Cristina Accetta,
  • Beatrice Carnassale,
  • Sabatino D’Archi,
  • Flavia De Lauretis,
  • Enrico Di Guglielmo and
  • Gianluca Franceschini
  • + 7 authors

10 May 2025

Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is effective in downstaging locally advanced breast cancer, improving surgical and oncological outcomes. However, luminal B breast cancer typically exhibits a poorer response to NACT, with only 10–15%...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,190 Views
19 Pages

DNA Methylation and Prospects for Predicting the Therapeutic Effect of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Triple-Negative and Luminal B Breast Cancer

  • Vladimir O. Sigin,
  • Alexey I. Kalinkin,
  • Alexandra F. Nikolaeva,
  • Ekaterina O. Ignatova,
  • Ekaterina B. Kuznetsova,
  • Galina G. Chesnokova,
  • Nikolai V. Litviakov,
  • Matvey M. Tsyganov,
  • Marina K. Ibragimova and
  • Vladimir V. Strelnikov
  • + 7 authors

6 March 2023

Despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer (BC), the main cause of deaths is resistance to existing therapies. An approach to improve the effectiveness of therapy in patients with aggressive BC subtypes is neoadjuvant chemothera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,832 Views
14 Pages

Fatty Acid Synthase Is a Key Enabler for Endocrine Resistance in Heregulin-Overexpressing Luminal B-Like Breast Cancer

  • Javier A. Menendez,
  • Inderjit Mehmi,
  • Adriana Papadimitropoulou,
  • Travis Vander Steen,
  • Elisabet Cuyàs,
  • Sara Verdura,
  • Ingrid Espinoza,
  • Luciano Vellon,
  • Ella Atlas and
  • Ruth Lupu

16 October 2020

HER2 transactivation by the HER3 ligand heregulin (HRG) promotes an endocrine-resistant phenotype in the estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) luminal-B subtype of breast cancer. The underlying biological mechanisms that link them are, however, incomplete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,820 Views
24 Pages

The Expression Profiles of lncRNAs Are Associated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Resistance in Locally Advanced, Luminal B-Type Breast Cancer

  • Miguel González-Woge,
  • Laura Contreras-Espinosa,
  • José Antonio García-Gordillo,
  • Sergio Aguilar-Villanueva,
  • Enrique Bargallo-Rocha,
  • Paula Cabrera-Galeana,
  • Tania Vasquez-Mata,
  • Ximena Cervantes-López,
  • Diana Sofía Vargas-Lías and
  • Luis Alonso Herrera
  • + 9 authors

lncRNAs are noncoding transcripts with tissue and cancer specificity. Particularly, in breast cancer, lncRNAs exhibit subtype-specific expression; they are particularly upregulated in luminal tumors. However, no gene signature-based laboratory tests...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,600 Views
12 Pages

Argonaute 2 Expression Correlates with a Luminal B Breast Cancer Subtype and Induces Estrogen Receptor Alpha Isoform Variation

  • Adrienne K. Conger,
  • Elizabeth C. Martin,
  • Thomas J. Yan,
  • Lyndsay V. Rhodes,
  • Van T. Hoang,
  • Jacqueline La,
  • Muralidharan Anbalagan,
  • Hope E. Burks,
  • Brian G. Rowan and
  • Matthew E. Burow
  • + 2 authors

21 September 2016

Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) signaling pathways are frequently disrupted in breast cancer and contribute to disease progression. ERα signaling is multifaceted and many ERα regulators have been identified including transcription factors and growth fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,584 Views
20 Pages

Plasma Levels of CXC Motif Chemokine 1 (CXCL1) and Chemokine 8 (CXCL8) as Diagnostic Biomarkers in Luminal A and B Breast Cancer

  • Joanna Motyka,
  • Ewa Gacuta,
  • Aleksandra Kicman,
  • Monika Kulesza,
  • Paweł Ławicki and
  • Sławomir Ławicki

12 November 2022

Chemokines are involved in the regulation of immune balance and in triggering an immune response. CXCL1 and CXCL8 belong to the ELR-motif-containing group of CXC chemokines, which, in breast cancer (BC), stimulate angiogenesis and increase migration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,269 Views
15 Pages

Quantitative and Qualitative Variations in TILs in Risk Stratification and Patient Selection for Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy of the Luminal B and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Immunophenotype

  • Ana Car Peterko,
  • Koraljka Rajković Molek,
  • Anita Savić Vuković,
  • Tamara Gulić,
  • Petra Valković Zujić,
  • Eleonora Cini Tešar,
  • Damir Juranić,
  • Aleksandra Pirjavec Mahić,
  • Franjo Lovasić and
  • Manuela Avirović
  • + 1 author

29 May 2025

Luminal B breast cancer (LBBC) represents an aggressive, high-grade ER+ disease, associated with a high proliferation rate, higher mutation burden, and higher probability of eliciting the immune response. Clinical and pathological data from 89 patien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,493 Views
12 Pages

Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin (Caelyx®) as Adjuvant Treatment in Early-Stage Luminal B-like Breast Cancer: A Feasibility Phase II Trial

  • Silvia Dellapasqua,
  • Pamela Trillo Aliaga,
  • Elisabetta Munzone,
  • Vincenzo Bagnardi,
  • Eleonora Pagan,
  • Emilia Montagna,
  • Giuseppe Cancello,
  • Raffaella Ghisini,
  • Claudia Sangalli and
  • Marco Colleoni
  • + 15 authors

7 December 2021

Background: Adjuvant chemotherapy for Luminal B-like breast cancers usually includes anthracycline-based regimens. However, some patients are reluctant to receive chemotherapy because of side-effects, especially alopecia, and ask for a “less in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,382 Views
11 Pages

Background/Objectives: This study aims to explore the risk factors associated with poor survival outcomes in geriatric female patients with breast cancer. Methods: This study utilized data from the METABRIC database to evaluate the risk factors assoc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,266 Views
19 Pages

22 December 2022

Breast cancer (BCa) is the most prevalent cancer in females and has a high rate of mortality, especially due to increased metastasis to skeletal and non-skeletal sites. Despite the marked clinical accomplishment of immune checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,789 Views
11 Pages

12 February 2023

This study aimed to evaluate the performance of multiparametric breast magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) for predicting response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in patients with luminal B subtype breast cancer. The prospective study included thirt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,371 Views
11 Pages

Luminal B HER2-negative breast cancer (BC) is the most common type in Indonesian BC patients, and frequently manifests with locally advanced staging. Recurrence often occurs within two years of the endocrine therapy course (primary endocrine therapy...