Prognostic significance of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ and FOXP3+ lymphocytes in residual tumors and alterations in these parameters after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer: A retrospective multicenter study

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Miyashita, Minoru ^a,b   Sasano, Hironobu ^b   Tamaki, Kentaro ^b,c   Hirakawa, Hisashi ^d   Takahashi, Yayoi ^b   Nakagawa, Saki ^a,b   Watanabe, Gou ^a   Tada, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Akihiko ^a   Ohuchi, Noriaki ^a   Ishida, Takanori ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Nahanishi Clinic   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; CD8 ANTIGEN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; LYMPH NODE; METABOLISM; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS;

ANTIGENS, CD8; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84940735047     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13058-015-0632-x     Document Type: Article

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