2018
The Clinical Significance of Breast-only and Node-only Pathologic Complete Response (pCR) After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NACT)
Fayanju O, Ren Y, Thomas S, Greenup R, Plichta J, Rosenberger L, Tamirisa N, Force J, Boughey J, Hyslop T, Hwang E. The Clinical Significance of Breast-only and Node-only Pathologic Complete Response (pCR) After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NACT). Annals Of Surgery 2018, 268: 591-601. PMID: 30048319, PMCID: PMC6496955, DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000002953.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPathologic complete responseImproved overall survivalNeoadjuvant chemotherapyOverall survivalComplete responseBreast cancerHuman epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) statusEpidermal growth factor receptor 2 statusCox proportional hazards modelHormone receptorsNode-positive patientsTriple-negative diseaseKaplan-Meier curvesBreast cancer patientsMultivariate logistic regressionProportional hazards modelAnatomic extentCancer patientsReceptor subtypesClinical significanceHazards modelTumor subtypesPatientsBreastLogistic regression
2017
The epidemiology of metaplastic breast cancer: A review of 2,500 cases from the national cancer database.
Campbell B, Thomas S, Ong C, Greenup R, Plichta J, Rosenberger L, Force J, Hyslop T, Hwang E, Fayanju O. The epidemiology of metaplastic breast cancer: A review of 2,500 cases from the national cancer database. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2017, 35: 1570-1570. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.35.15_suppl.1570.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMetaplastic breast cancerNational Cancer DatabaseTriple-negative breast cancerMBC patientsBreast cancerMBC diagnosisReceptor statusCancer DatabaseAcademic centersSociodemographic factorsHigher clinical T stageFemale breast cancer patientsAdult female breast cancer patientsClinical T stageClinical N stageBreast cancer patientsMultivariate logistic regressionPopulation-based analysisCox proportional hazardsGovernment-sponsored insuranceNon-Hispanic blacksLow socioeconomic statusPaucity of dataOverall survivalWorse survival