Breast Cancer Program

The DF/HCC Breast Cancer Program is notable for its scientific breadth and depth, as well as for extensive interactions and collaborations across DF/HCC institutions, departments, and disciplines. The Program seeks to reduce breast cancer morbidity and mortality by promoting transdisciplinary basic, translational, and clinical research within the DF/HCC community.

The program fosters work that focuses on risk identification, prevention, treatment, and survivorship. Its hallmark is translational research, optimized by a web of collaborations between clinical, laboratory, and/or population science investigators. Currently, there are more than 100 members in the Breast Cancer Program.


Recent Publications

  • Morganti S, Gibson CJ, Jin Q, Santos K, Patel A, Wilson A, Merrill M, Vincuilla J, Stokes S, Lipsyc-Sharf M, Parker T, King TA, Mittendorf EA, Curigliano G, Hughes ME, Stover DG, Tolaney SM, Weeks LD, Tayob N, Lin NU, Garber JE, Miller PG, Parsons HA. Prevalence, Dynamics, and Prognostic Role of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential in Patients With Breast Cancer. J Clin Oncol 2024. PubMed
  • Lambertini M, Blondeaux E, Agostinetto E, Hamy AS, Kim HJ, Di Meglio A, Bernstein Molho R, Hilbers F, Pogoda K, Carrasco E, Punie K, Bajpai J, Ignatiadis M, Moore HCF, Phillips KA, Toss A, Rousset-Jablonski C, Peccatori FA, Renaud T, Ferrari A, Paluch-Shimon S, Fruscio R, Cui W, Wong SM, Vernieri C, Ruddy KJ, Dieci MV, Matikas A, Rozenblit M, Villarreal-Garza C, De Marchis L, Del Mastro L, Puglisi F, Del Pilar Estevez-Diz M, Rodriguez-Wallberg KA, Mrinakova B, Meister S, Livraghi L, Clatot F, Yerushalmi R, De Angelis C, Sánchez-Bayona R, Meattini I, Cichowska-Cwalinska N, Berlière M, Salama M, De Giorgi U, Sonnenblick A, Chiodi C, Lee YJ, Maria C, Azim HA, Boni L, Partridge AH, . Pregnancy After Breast Cancer in Young BRCA Carriers: An International Hospital-Based Cohort Study. JAMA 2024; 331:49-59. PubMed
  • Tarantino P, Gupta H, Hughes ME, Files J, Strauss S, Kirkner G, Feeney AM, Li Y, Garrido-Castro AC, Barroso-Sousa R, Bychkovsky BL, DiLascio S, Sholl L, MacConaill L, Lindeman N, Johnson BE, Meyerson M, Jeselsohn R, Qiu X, Li R, Long H, Winer EP, Dillon D, Curigliano G, Cherniack AD, Tolaney SM, Lin NU. Comprehensive genomic characterization of HER2-low and HER2-0 breast cancer. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7496. PubMed
  • Spring LM, Mortensen L, Abraham E, Keenan J, Medford A, Ma A, Padden S, Denault E, Ryan L, Iafrate AJ, Lennerz J, Hochberg E, Wander SA, Moy B, Isakoff SJ, Juric D, Brennan KA, Smith DE, Civiello B, Mulvey T, Comander A, Ellisen LW, Schwartz JH, Bardia A. Virtual Molecular and Precision Medicine Clinic to Improve Access to Clinical Trials for Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer: An Academic/Community Collaboration. JCO Oncol Pract 2023. PubMed
  • Hermida-Prado F, Xie Y, Sherman S, Nagy Z, Russo D, Akhshi T, Chu Z, Feit A, Campisi M, Chen M, Nardone A, Guarducci C, Lim K, Font-Tello A, Lee I, García-Pedrero J, Canadas I, Agudo J, Huang Y, Sella T, Jin Q, Tayob N, Mittendorf EA, Tolaney SM, Qiu X, Long H, Symmans WF, Lin JR, Santagata S, Bedrosian I, Yardley DA, Mayer IA, Richardson ET, Oliveira G, Wu CJ, Schuster EF, Dowsett M, Welm AL, Barbie D, Metzger O, Jeselsohn R. Endocrine therapy synergizes with SMAC mimetics to potentiate antigen presentation and tumor regression in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Cancer Res 2023. PubMed
  • Tolaney SM, Chan A, Petrakova K, Delaloge S, Campone M, Iwata H, Peddi PF, Kaufman PA, De Kermadec E, Liu Q, Cohen P, Paux G, Wang L, Ternès N, Boitier E, Im SA. AMEERA-3: Randomized Phase II Study of Amcenestrant (Oral Selective Estrogen Receptor Degrader) Versus Standard Endocrine Monotherapy in Estrogen Receptor-Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer. J Clin Oncol 2023. PubMed
  • Partridge AH, Niman SM, Ruggeri M, Peccatori FA, Azim HA, Colleoni M, Saura C, Shimizu C, Sætersdal AB, Kroep JR, Mailliez A, Warner E, Borges VF, Amant F, Gombos A, Kataoka A, Rousset-Jablonski C, Borstnar S, Takei J, Lee JE, Walshe JM, Ruíz-Borrego M, Moore HCF, Saunders C, Bjelic-Radisic V, Susnjar S, Cardoso F, Smith KL, Ferreiro T, Ribi K, Ruddy K, Kammler R, El-Abed S, Viale G, Piccart M, Korde LA, Goldhirsch A, Gelber RD, Pagani O, , . Interrupting Endocrine Therapy to Attempt Pregnancy after Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med 2023; 388:1645-1656. PubMed
  • Waks AG, Ogayo ER, Paré L, Marín-Aguilera M, Brasó-Maristany F, Galván P, Castillo O, Martínez-Sáez O, Vivancos A, Villagrasa P, Villacampa G, Tarantino P, Desai N, Guerriero J, Metzger O, Tung NM, Krop IE, Parker JS, Perou CM, Prat A, Winer EP, Tolaney SM, Mittendorf EA. Assessment of the HER2DX Assay in Patients With ERBB2-Positive Breast Cancer Treated With Neoadjuvant Paclitaxel, Trastuzumab, and Pertuzumab. JAMA Oncol 2023; 9:835-840. PubMed
  • Bergholz JS, Wang Q, Wang Q, Ramseier M, Prakadan S, Wang W, Fang R, Kabraji S, Zhou Q, Gray GK, Abell-Hart K, Xie S, Guo X, Gu H, Von T, Jiang T, Tang S, Freeman GJ, Kim HJ, Shalek AK, Roberts TM, Zhao JJ. PI3Kβ controls immune evasion in PTEN-deficient breast tumours. Nature 2023; 617:139-146. PubMed
  • Mayerhofer C, Sedrak MS, Hopkins JO, Li T, Tayob N, Faggen MG, Sinclair NF, Chen WY, Parsons HA, Mayer EL, Lange PB, Basta AS, Perilla-Glen A, Lederman RI, Wong AR, Tiwari A, McAllister SS, Mittendorf EA, Gibson CJ, Burstein HJ, Kim AS, Freedman RA, Miller PG. Clonal Hematopoiesis in Older Patients with Breast Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2023. PubMed
  • Kantor O, King TA, Freedman RA, Mayer EL, Chavez-MacGregor M, Korde LA, Sparano JA, Mittendorf EA. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Locoregional Recurrence Among Patients With Hormone Receptor-Positive, Node-Negative Breast Cancer: A Post Hoc Analysis of the TAILORx Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Surg 2023; 158:583-591. PubMed
  • Minami CA, Jin G, Freedman RA, Schonberg MA, King TA, Mittendorf EA. Association of Surgery With Frailty Status in Older Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer. JAMA Surg 2023. PubMed
  • Tolaney SM, Tarantino P, Graham N, Tayob N, Parè L, Villacampa G, Dang CT, Yardley DA, Moy B, Marcom PK, Albain KS, Rugo HS, Ellis MJ, Shapira I, Wolff AC, Carey LA, Barroso-Sousa R, Villagrasa P, DeMeo M, DiLullo M, Zanudo JGT, Weiss J, Wagle N, Partridge AH, Waks AG, Hudis CA, Krop IE, Burstein HJ, Prat A, Winer EP. Adjuvant paclitaxel and trastuzumab for node-negative, HER2-positive breast cancer: final 10-year analysis of the open-label, single-arm, phase 2 APT trial. Lancet Oncol. 2023; 24:273-285. PubMed
  • Sui L, Wang S, Ganguly D, El Rayes TP, Askeland C, Børretzen A, Sim D, Halvorsen OJ, Knutsvik G, Arnes J, Aziz S, Haukaas S, Foulkes WD, Bielenberg DR, Ziemys A, Mittal V, Brekken RA, Akslen LA, Watnick RS. PRSS2 remodels the tumor microenvironment via repression of Tsp1 to stimulate tumor growth and progression. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7959. PubMed
  • Alečković M, Cristea S, Gil Del Alcazar CR, Yan P, Ding L, Krop ED, Harper NW, Rojas Jimenez E, Lu D, Gulvady AC, Foidart P, Seehawer M, Diciaccio B, Murphy KC, Pyrdol J, Anand J, Garza K, Wucherpfennig KW, Tamimi RM, Michor F, Polyak K. Breast cancer prevention by short-term inhibition of TGFβ signaling. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7558. PubMed
  • Lin NU, Murthy RK, Abramson V, Anders C, Bachelot T, Bedard PL, Borges V, Cameron D, Carey LA, Chien AJ, Curigliano G, DiGiovanna MP, Gelmon K, Hortobagyi G, Hurvitz SA, Krop I, Loi S, Loibl S, Mueller V, Oliveira M, Paplomata E, Pegram M, Slamon D, Zelnak A, Ramos J, Feng W, Winer E. Tucatinib vs Placebo, Both in Combination With Trastuzumab and Capecitabine, for Previously Treated ERBB2 (HER2)-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer in Patients With Brain Metastases: Updated Exploratory Analysis of the HER2CLIMB Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol 2022. PubMed
  • Roweth HG, Malloy MW, Goreczny GJ, Becker IC, Guo Q, Mittendorf EA, Italiano JE, McAllister SS, Battinelli EM. Pro-inflammatory megakaryocyte gene expression in murine models of breast cancer. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabo5224. PubMed
  • Wang L, Wang D, Sonzogni O, Ke S, Wang Q, Thavamani A, Batalini F, Stopka SA, Regan MS, Vandal S, Tian S, Pinto J, Cyr AM, Bret-Mounet VC, Baquer G, Eikesdal HP, Yuan M, Asara JM, Heng YJ, Bai P, Agar NYR, Wulf GM. PARP-inhibition reprograms macrophages toward an anti-tumor phenotype. Cell Rep 2022; 41:111462. PubMed
  • Rugo HS, Bardia A, Marmé F, Cortes J, Schmid P, Loirat D, Trédan O, Ciruelos E, Dalenc F, Pardo PG, Jhaveri KL, Delaney R, Fu O, Lin L, Verret W, Tolaney SM. Sacituzumab Govitecan in Hormone Receptor-Positive/Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer. J Clin Oncol 2022; 40:3365-3376. PubMed
  • Spring LM, Han H, Liu MC, Hamilton E, Irie H, Santa-Maria CA, Reeves J, Pan P, Shan M, Tang Y, Graham JR, Hazard S, Ellisen LW, Isakoff SJ. Neoadjuvant study of niraparib in patients with HER2-negative, BRCA-mutated, resectable breast cancer. 2022. PubMed
  • Guo Q, Spasic M, Maynard AG, Goreczny GJ, Bizuayehu A, Olive JF, van Galen P, McAllister SS. Clonal barcoding with qPCR detection enables live cell functional analyses for cancer research. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3837. PubMed
  • Tarantino P, Jin Q, Tayob N, Jeselsohn RM, Schnitt SJ, Vincuilla J, Parker T, Tyekucheva S, Li T, Lin NU, Hughes ME, Weiss AC, King TA, Mittendorf EA, Curigliano G, Tolaney SM. Prognostic and Biologic Significance of ERBB2-Low Expression in Early-Stage Breast Cancer. JAMA Oncol 2022. PubMed
  • Lipsyc-Sharf M, de Bruin EC, Santos K, McEwen R, Stetson D, Patel A, Kirkner GJ, Hughes ME, Tolaney SM, Partridge AH, Krop IE, Knape C, Feger U, Marsico G, Howarth K, Winer EP, Lin NU, Parsons HA. Circulating Tumor DNA and Late Recurrence in High-Risk Hormone Receptor-Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Negative Breast Cancer. J Clin Oncol 2022. PubMed
  • Wang Q, Bergholz JS, Ding L, Lin Z, Kabraji SK, Hughes ME, He X, Xie S, Jiang T, Wang W, Zoeller JJ, Kim HJ, Roberts TM, Konstantinopoulos PA, Matulonis UA, Dillon DA, Winer EP, Lin NU, Zhao JJ. STING agonism reprograms tumor-associated macrophages and overcomes resistance to PARP inhibition in BRCA1-deficient models of breast cancer. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3022. PubMed
  • Bidard FC, Kaklamani VG, Neven P, Streich G, Montero AJ, Forget F, Mouret-Reynier MA, Sohn JH, Taylor D, Harnden KK, Khong H, Kocsis J, Dalenc F, Dillon PM, Babu S, Waters S, Deleu I, García Sáenz JA, Bria E, Cazzaniga M, Lu J, Aftimos P, Cortés J, Liu S, Tonini G, Laurent D, Habboubi N, Conlan MG, Bardia A. Elacestrant (oral selective estrogen receptor degrader) Versus Standard Endocrine Therapy for Estrogen Receptor-Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer: Results From the Randomized Phase III EMERALD Trial. J Clin Oncol 2022. PubMed
  • Baldominos P, Barbera-Mourelle A, Barreiro O, Huang Y, Wight A, Cho JW, Zhao X, Estivill G, Adam I, Sanchez X, McCarthy S, Schaller J, Khan Z, Ruzo A, Pastorello R, Richardson ET, Dillon D, Montero-Llopis P, Barroso-Sousa R, Forman J, Shukla SA, Tolaney SM, Mittendorf EA, von Andrian UH, Wucherpfennig KW, Hemberg M, Agudo J. Quiescent cancer cells resist T cell attack by forming an immunosuppressive niche. Cell 2022. PubMed
  • Saha T, Dash C, Jayabalan R, Khiste S, Kulkarni A, Kurmi K, Mondal J, Majumder PK, Bardia A, Jang HL, Sengupta S. Intercellular nanotubes mediate mitochondrial trafficking between cancer and immune cells. Nat Nanotechnol 2022; 17:98-106. PubMed
  • Mayer EL, Fesl C, Hlauschek D, Garcia-Estevez L, Burstein HJ, Zdenkowski N, Wette V, Miller KD, Balic M, Mayer IA, Cameron D, Winer EP, Ponce Lorenzo JJ, Lake D, Pristauz-Telsnigg G, Haddad TC, Shepherd L, Iwata H, Goetz M, Cardoso F, Traina TA, Sabanathan D, Breitenstein U, Ackerl K, Metzger Filho O, Zehetner K, Solomon K, El-Abed S, Theall KP, Lu DR, Dueck A, Gnant M, DeMichele A. Treatment Exposure and Discontinuation in the PALbociclib CoLlaborative Adjuvant Study of Palbociclib With Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Hormone Receptor-Positive/Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Negative Early Breast Cancer (PALLAS/AFT-05/ABCSG- J Clin Oncol 2022; 40:449-458. PubMed
  • Krop IE, Im SA, Barrios C, Bonnefoi H, Gralow J, Toi M, Ellis PA, Gianni L, Swain SM, Im YH, De Laurentiis M, Nowecki Z, Huang CS, Fehrenbacher L, Ito Y, Shah J, Boulet T, Liu H, Macharia H, Trask P, Song C, Winer EP, Harbeck N. Trastuzumab Emtansine Plus Pertuzumab Versus Taxane Plus Trastuzumab Plus Pertuzumab After Anthracycline for High-Risk Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Early Breast Cancer: The Phase III KAITLIN Study. J Clin Oncol 2022; 40:438-448. PubMed
  • Keenan TE, Guerriero JL, Barroso-Sousa R, Li T, O'Meara T, Giobbie-Hurder A, Tayob N, Hu J, Severgnini M, Agudo J, Vaz-Luis I, Anderson L, Attaya V, Park J, Conway J, He MX, Reardon B, Shannon E, Wulf G, Spring LM, Jeselsohn R, Krop I, Lin NU, Partridge A, Winer EP, Mittendorf EA, Liu D, Van Allen EM, Tolaney SM. Molecular correlates of response to eribulin and pembrolizumab in hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer. Nat Commun 2021; 12:5563. PubMed
  • Dominici L, Hu J, Zheng Y, Kim HJ, King TA, Ruddy KJ, Tamimi RM, Peppercorn J, Schapira L, Borges VF, Come SE, Warner E, Wong JS, Partridge AH, Rosenberg SM. Association of Local Therapy With Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Young Women With Breast Cancer. JAMA Surg 2021; 156:e213758. PubMed
  • Dang F, Nie L, Zhou J, Shimizu K, Chu C, Wu Z, Fassl A, Ke S, Wang Y, Zhang J, Zhang T, Tu Z, Inuzuka H, Sicinski P, Bass AJ, Wei W. Inhibition of CK1ε potentiates the therapeutic efficacy of CDK4/6 inhibitor in breast cancer. Nat Commun 2021; 12:5386. PubMed
  • Coates JT, Sun S, Leshchiner I, Thimmiah N, Martin EE, McLoughlin D, Danysh BP, Slowik K, Jacobs RA, Rhrissorrakrai K, Utro F, Levovitz C, Denault E, Walmsley CS, Kambadakone A, Stone JR, Isakoff SJ, Parida L, Juric D, Getz G, Bardia A, Ellisen LW. Parallel Genomic Alterations of Antigen and Payload Targets Mediate Polyclonal Acquired Clinical Resistance to Sacituzumab Govitecan in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. 2021; 11:2436-2445. PubMed
  • Tolaney SM, Tayob N, Dang C, Yardley DA, Isakoff SJ, Valero V, Faggen M, Mulvey T, Bose R, Hu J, Weckstein D, Wolff AC, Reeder-Hayes K, Rugo HS, Ramaswamy B, Zuckerman D, Hart L, Gadi VK, Constantine M, Cheng K, Briccetti F, Schneider B, Garrett AM, Marcom K, Albain K, DeFusco P, Tung N, Ardman B, Nanda R, Jankowitz RC, Rimawi M, Abramson V, Pohlmann PR, Van Poznak C, Forero-Torres A, Liu M, Ruddy K, Zheng Y, Rosenberg SM, Gelber RD, Trippa L, Barry W, DeMeo M, Burstein H, Partridge A, Winer EP, Krop I. Adjuvant Trastuzumab Emtansine Versus Paclitaxel in Combination With Trastuzumab for Stage I HER2-Positive Breast Cancer (ATEMPT): A Randomized Clinical Trial. J Clin Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Tolaney SM, Garrett-Mayer E, White J, Blinder VS, Foster JC, Amiri-Kordestani L, Hwang ES, Bliss JM, Rakovitch E, Perlmutter J, Spears PA, Frank E, Tung NM, Elias AD, Cameron D, Denduluri N, Best AF, DiLeo A, Baizer L, Butler LP, Schwartz E, Winer EP, Korde LA. Updated Standardized Definitions for Efficacy End Points (STEEP) in Adjuvant Breast Cancer Clinical Trials: STEEP Version 2.0. J Clin Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Metzger Filho O, Viale G, Stein S, Trippa L, Yardley DA, Mayer IA, Abramson VG, Arteaga CL, Spring LM, Waks AG, Wrabel E, DeMeo MK, Bardia A, Dell'Orto P, Russo L, King TA, Polyak K, Michor F, Winer EP, Krop IE. Impact of HER2 heterogeneity on treatment response of early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer: phase II neoadjuvant clinical trial of T-DM1 combined with pertuzumab. 2021. PubMed
  • Bardia A, Hurvitz SA, Tolaney SM, Loirat D, Punie K, Oliveira M, Brufsky A, Sardesai SD, Kalinsky K, Zelnak AB, Weaver R, Traina T, Dalenc F, Aftimos P, Lynce F, Diab S, Cortés J, O'Shaughnessy J, Diéras V, Ferrario C, Schmid P, Carey LA, Gianni L, Piccart MJ, Loibl S, Goldenberg DM, Hong Q, Olivo MS, Itri LM, Rugo HS, . Sacituzumab Govitecan in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med 2021; 384:1529-1541. PubMed
  • Winer EP, Lipatov O, Im SA, Goncalves A, Muñoz-Couselo E, Lee KS, Schmid P, Tamura K, Testa L, Witzel I, Ohtani S, Turner N, Zambelli S, Harbeck N, Andre F, Dent R, Zhou X, Karantza V, Mejia J, Cortes J, . Pembrolizumab versus investigator-choice chemotherapy for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (KEYNOTE-119): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2021; 22:499-511. PubMed
  • Mayer EL, Dueck AC, Martin M, Rubovszky G, Burstein HJ, Bellet-Ezquerra M, Miller KD, Zdenkowski N, Winer EP, Pfeiler G, Goetz M, Ruiz-Borrego M, Anderson D, Nowecki Z, Loibl S, Moulder S, Ring A, Fitzal F, Traina T, Chan A, Rugo HS, Lemieux J, Henao F, Lyss A, Antolin Novoa S, Wolff AC, Vetter M, Egle D, Morris PG, Mamounas EP, Gil-Gil MJ, Prat A, Fohler H, Metzger Filho O, Schwarz M, DuFrane C, Fumagalli D, Theall KP, Lu DR, Bartlett CH, Koehler M, Fesl C, DeMichele A, Gnant M. Palbociclib with adjuvant endocrine therapy in early breast cancer (PALLAS): interim analysis of a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 3 study. Lancet Oncol. 2021; 22:212-222. PubMed
  • Bagati A, Kumar S, Jiang P, Pyrdol J, Zou AE, Godicelj A, Mathewson ND, Cartwright ANR, Cejas P, Brown M, Giobbie-Hurder A, Dillon D, Agudo J, Mittendorf EA, Liu XS, Wucherpfennig KW. Integrin αvβ6-TGFβ-SOX4 Pathway Drives Immune Evasion in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Cancer Cell 2021; 39:54-67.e9. PubMed
  • Bardia A, Kaklamani V, Wilks S, Weise A, Richards D, Harb W, Osborne C, Wesolowski R, Karuturi M, Conkling P, Bagley RG, Wang Y, Conlan MG, Kabos P. Phase I Study of Elacestrant (RAD1901), a Novel Selective Estrogen Receptor Degrader, in ER-Positive, HER2-Negative Advanced Breast Cancer. J Clin Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Tung NM, Robson ME, Ventz S, Santa-Maria CA, Nanda R, Marcom PK, Shah PD, Ballinger TJ, Yang ES, Vinayak S, Melisko M, Brufsky A, DeMeo M, Jenkins C, Domchek S, D'Andrea A, Lin NU, Hughes ME, Carey LA, Wagle N, Wulf GM, Krop IE, Wolff AC, Winer EP, Garber JE. TBCRC 048: Phase II Study of Olaparib for Metastatic Breast Cancer and Mutations in Homologous Recombination-Related Genes. J Clin Oncol 2020; 38:4274-4282. PubMed
  • Tolaney SM, Barroso-Sousa R, Keenan T, Li T, Trippa L, Vaz-Luis I, Wulf G, Spring L, Sinclair NF, Andrews C, Pittenger J, Richardson ET, Dillon D, Lin NU, Overmoyer B, Partridge AH, Van Allen E, Mittendorf EA, Winer EP, Krop IE. Effect of Eribulin With or Without Pembrolizumab on Progression-Free Survival for Patients With Hormone Receptor-Positive, ERBB2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • Rosenberg SM, Dominici LS, Gelber S, Poorvu PD, Ruddy KJ, Wong JS, Tamimi RM, Schapira L, Come S, Peppercorn JM, Borges VF, Partridge AH. Association of Breast Cancer Surgery With Quality of Life and Psychosocial Well-being in Young Breast Cancer Survivors. JAMA Surg 2020. PubMed
  • Mittendorf EA, Zhang H, Barrios CH, Saji S, Jung KH, Hegg R, Koehler A, Sohn J, Iwata H, Telli ML, Ferrario C, Punie K, Penault-Llorca F, Patel S, Duc AN, Liste-Hermoso M, Maiya V, Molinero L, Chui SY, Harbeck N. Neoadjuvant atezolizumab in combination with sequential nab-paclitaxel and anthracycline-based chemotherapy versus placebo and chemotherapy in patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (IMpassion031): a randomised, double-blind, phase 3 tria Lancet 2020. PubMed
  • Naoum GE, Roberts S, Brunelle CL, Shui AM, Salama L, Daniell K, Gillespie T, Bucci L, Smith BL, Ho AY, Taghian AG. Quantifying the Impact of Axillary Surgery and Nodal Irradiation on Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema and Local Tumor Control: Long-Term Results From a Prospective Screening Trial. J Clin Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • Tolaney SM, Wardley AM, Zambelli S, Hilton JF, Troso-Sandoval TA, Ricci F, Im SA, Kim SB, Johnston SR, Chan A, Goel S, Catron K, Chapman SC, Price GL, Yang Z, Gainford MC, André F. Abemaciclib plus trastuzumab with or without fulvestrant versus trastuzumab plus standard-of-care chemotherapy in women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-positive advanced breast cancer (monarcHER): a randomised, open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2020; 21:763-775. PubMed
  • Ebright RY, Lee S, Wittner BS, Niederhoffer KL, Nicholson BT, Bardia A, Truesdell S, Wiley DF, Wesley B, Li S, Mai A, Aceto N, Vincent-Jordan N, Szabolcs A, Chirn B, Kreuzer J, Comaills V, Kalinich M, Haas W, Ting DT, Toner M, Vasudevan S, Haber DA, Maheswaran S, Micalizzi DS. Deregulation of ribosomal protein expression and translation promotes breast cancer metastasis. Science 2020; 367:1468-1473. PubMed
  • Tung N, Arun B, Hacker MR, Hofstatter E, Toppmeyer DL, Isakoff SJ, Borges V, Legare RD, Isaacs C, Wolff AC, Marcom PK, Mayer EL, Lange PB, Goss AJ, Jenkins C, Krop IE, Winer EP, Schnitt SJ, Garber JE. TBCRC 031: Randomized Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Cisplatin Versus Doxorubicin-Cyclophosphamide in Germline Carriers With HER2-Negative Breast Cancer (the INFORM trial). J Clin Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • Murthy RK, Loi S, Okines A, Paplomata E, Hamilton E, Hurvitz SA, Lin NU, Borges V, Abramson V, Anders C, Bedard PL, Oliveira M, Jakobsen E, Bachelot T, Shachar SS, Müller V, Braga S, Duhoux FP, Greil R, Cameron D, Carey LA, Curigliano G, Gelmon K, Hortobagyi G, Krop I, Loibl S, Pegram M, Slamon D, Palanca-Wessels MC, Walker L, Feng W, Winer EP. Tucatinib, Trastuzumab, and Capecitabine for HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med 2019. PubMed
  • McCarthy AM, Guan Z, Welch M, Griffin ME, Sippo DA, Deng Z, Coopey SB, Acar A, Semine A, Parmigiani G, Braun D, Hughes KS. Performance of breast cancer risk assessment models in a large mammography cohort. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2019. PubMed
  • Ding L, Su Y, Fassl A, Hinohara K, Qiu X, Harper NW, Huh SJ, Bloushtain-Qimron N, Jovanović B, Ekram M, Zi X, Hines WC, Alečković M, Gil Del Alcazar C, Caulfield RJ, Bonal DM, Nguyen QD, Merino VF, Choudhury S, Ethington G, Panos L, Grant M, Herlihy W, Au A, Rosson GD, Argani P, Richardson AL, Dillon D, Allred DC, Babski K, Kim EMH, McDonnell CH, Wagner J, Rowberry R, Bobolis K, Kleer CG, Hwang ES, Blum JL, Cristea S, Sicinski P, Fan R, Long HW, Sukumar S, Park SY, Garber JE, Bissell M, Yao J, Polyak K. Perturbed myoepithelial cell differentiation in BRCA mutation carriers and in ductal carcinoma in situ. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4182. PubMed
  • Goldman A, Khiste S, Freinkman E, Dhawan A, Majumder B, Mondal J, Pinkerton AB, Eton E, Medhi R, Chandrasekar V, Rahman MM, Ichimura T, Gopinath KS, Majumder P, Kohandel M, Sengupta S. Targeting tumor phenotypic plasticity and metabolic remodeling in adaptive cross-drug tolerance. Sci Signal 2019. PubMed
  • Janiszewska M, Tabassum DP, Castaño Z, Cristea S, Yamamoto KN, Kingston NL, Murphy KC, Shu S, Harper NW, Del Alcazar CG, Alečković M, Ekram MB, Cohen O, Kwak M, Qin Y, Laszewski T, Luoma A, Marusyk A, Wucherpfennig KW, Wagle N, Fan R, Michor F, McAllister SS, Polyak K. Subclonal cooperation drives metastasis by modulating local and systemic immune microenvironments. Nat Cell Biol 2019; 21:879-888. PubMed
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