2014
Emergence of Constitutively Active Estrogen Receptor-α Mutations in Pretreated Advanced Estrogen Receptor–Positive Breast Cancer
Jeselsohn R, Yelensky R, Buchwalter G, Frampton G, Meric-Bernstam F, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Ferrer-Lozano J, Perez-Fidalgo JA, Cristofanilli M, Gómez H, Arteaga CL, Giltnane J, Balko JM, Cronin MT, Jarosz M, Sun J, Hawryluk M, Lipson D, Otto G, Ross JS, Dvir A, Soussan-Gutman L, Wolf I, Rubinek T, Gilmore L, Schnitt S, Come SE, Pusztai L, Stephens P, Brown M, Miller VA. Emergence of Constitutively Active Estrogen Receptor-α Mutations in Pretreated Advanced Estrogen Receptor–Positive Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 2014, 20: 1757-1767. PMID: 24398047, PMCID: PMC3998833, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-13-2332.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEstrogen receptor α mutationBreast cancerAdvanced estrogen receptor-positive breast cancerEstrogen receptor-positive breast cancerReceptor-positive breast cancerHormone-dependent breast cancerPrimary breast cancerSubgroup of patientsER-negative tumorsLine of treatmentCodon 537ER- diseaseEndocrine treatmentTreatment-naïveESR1 mutationsMetastatic diseaseCell line modelsEndocrine resistanceMetastatic tumorsReceptor constitutive activityEstrogen receptorMetastatic samplesTumor specimensCancer-related genesNatural history
2010
Estrogen Receptor Expression and Docetaxel Efficacy in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of Four Randomized Trials
Andre F, Broglio K, Pusztai L, Berrada N, Mackey JR, Nabholtz JM, Chan S, Hortobagyi GN. Estrogen Receptor Expression and Docetaxel Efficacy in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of Four Randomized Trials. The Oncologist 2010, 15: 476-483. PMID: 20421265, PMCID: PMC3227977, DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2009-0150.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic breast cancerEfficacy of docetaxelBreast cancerHigh response rateER expressionResponse rateEstrogen receptorHazard ratioRandomized trialsDisease progressionProgression-free survival timeCox proportional hazards modelDocetaxel-based regimenEstrogen receptor expressionProportional hazards modelEffect of docetaxelER- diseasePFS timeDocetaxel efficacyPooled analysisTumor responseReceptor expressionSurvival timeLower riskHazards model