Predictive factors for response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy: inflammatory and immune markers in triple-negative breast cancer

CONCLUSIONS: TILs, NLR, and PLR predicted NAC efficacy against TNBC. TIL level was associated with NLR and PLR. NLR was an independent predictive factor and may be a useful surrogate marker for TILs when predicting pCR.PMID:37782377 | DOI:10.1007/s12282-023-01504-y

Source: Breast Cancer - October 2, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Hiroki Kusama Nobuyoshi Kittaka Ai Soma Azusa Taniguchi Haruka Kanaoka Satomi Nakajima Yuri Oyama Yukiko Seto Jun Okuno Noriyuki Watanabe Saki Matsui Minako Nishio Fumie Fujisawa Keiichiro Honma Yasuhiro Tamaki Takahiro Nakayama Source Type: research