| Literature DB >> 33339824 |
Ali Bohlok1, Peter Vermeulen2,3, Sophia Leduc4, Emily Latacz2, Lara Botzenhart3, François Richard4, Maxim De Schepper4, Tatjana Geukens4, Valerio Lucidi5, Michail Ignatiadis6, Philippe Aftimos7, Christos Sotiriou8, Martine Piccart6, Alain Hendlisz9, Steven Van Laere2, Luc Dirix2,3, Jean-Christophe Noël10, Elia Biganzoli11, Denis Larsimont12, Christine Desmedt13, Vincent Donckier14.
Abstract
Currently, there are no markers to identify patients with liver-only or liver-dominant metastases that would benefit from hepatic surgery. Here we characterized histopathological growth patterns (HGPs) of liver metastases in a consecutive series of 36 breast cancer patients who underwent hepatic surgery. Survival analyses showed that the presence of a desmoplastic HGP in the liver metastases (a rim of fibrous tissue separating cancer cells from the liver parenchyma, present in 20 (56%) patients) is independently associated with favorable progression-free and overall survival when compared with the replacement HGP (cancer cells growing into the liver parenchyma, present in 16 (44%) patients).Entities:
Year: 2020 PMID: 33339824 DOI: 10.1038/s41523-020-00209-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: NPJ Breast Cancer ISSN: 2374-4677