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    Prognostic Role of Immune Markers in Triple Negative Breast Carcinoma
    (SPRINGER, 2020) KAYA, HANDAN; Sahin Ozkan, Hulya; Ugurlu, Mustafa Umit; Yumuk, Perran Fulden; Kaya, Handan
    Tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) is a significant prognostic parameter for triple negative breast carcinomas (TNBC) due to being a target for immunotherapeutic agents and its essential role during the cancer immunoediting process. In this study, CD8, FOXP3, CD163, PD-L1/SP142 and PD-L1/SP263 antibodies were examined in a sample of 51 TNBC cases. Patients who received neoadjuvant therapy were excluded. CD8, FOXP3 and CD163 antibodies were evaluated separately in intratumoral area (ITA) and tumor stroma (TS). PD-L1 status was also examined in tumor cells (TC) and immune cells (IC) using both SP142 and SP263 antibodies. In multivariate Cox regressions, the only antibody that was found to be significantly associated with survival was SP142. SP142-positivity in TC and IC was related to increased overall survival. Higher CD163 expression in ITA and SP263-positivity in IC were associated with younger age. Lymphatic/angioinvasion was more frequent in cases with negative/low CD8 and FOXP3 expressions. Moreover, metastatic axillary lymph node(s) was associated with negative/low FOXP3 expression in TS. CD8, FOXP3, CD163, SP142 and SP263 expressions were positively correlated with each other, except a mild discordance caused by CD163 in ITA. Although PD-L1 status with both SP142 and SP263 antibodies were concordant in the majority of cases, 33.3% and 13.7% of the cases showed SP142-negative/SP263-positive pattern in TC and IC respectively. In conclusion, we suggest that composition, density and localization of the immune cells and the check point molecules are important prognostic parameters in TNBC. Immunohistochemistry can be used as an accessible and less expensive tool to demonstrate TIME.
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    Clinical outcome of breast cancer patients with N3a (>= 10 positive lymph nodes) disease: has it changed over years?
    (HUMANA PRESS INC, 2011) DANE, FAYSAL; Basaran, Gul; Devrim, Cabuk; Caglar, Hale B.; Gulluoglu, Bahadir; Kaya, Handan; Seber, Selcuk; Korkmaz, Taner; Telli, Ferhat; Kocak, Muharrem; Dane, Faysal; Yumuk, Fulden P.; Turhal, Serdar N.
    It has been shown that breast cancer patients with N3a (10 positive lymph nodes) had a poor prognosis. We planned to investigate the clinical outcome BC patients who presented with N3a disease and had no evidence of systemic metastasis at the time of diagnosis. We made a retrospective chart review of breast cancer patients who had a parts per thousand yen10 positive lymph nodes and received adjuvant systemic therapy in Marmara University Hospital between 1998 and 2008. We recorded clinical, pathologic and treatment characteristics of the patients and analyzed the survival outcome. We identified 73 patients with N3a disease who were treated in Marmara University Hospital between 1998 and 2008. The median age was 52. Most (75%) of the patients had invasive ductal histology, 75% had T2/T3 tumors, 36% had grade 3 tumors. The median number of metastatic lymph nodes was 15. Estrogen and progesterone receptors were both positive in 61% and both negative in 16+ tumors. Her-2/neu status was assessed in 68% of the tumors; 18% of patients had 3+ and 50% had negative scores. Six patients had triple negative tumors. All patients except one received adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Seventy-four percent of patients received anthracycline/taxane-based chemotherapy. Fifty-nine patients received adjuvant endocrine therapy, 42% them received aromatase inhibitors. Five of the 13 Her-2 positive patients received adjuvant trastuzumab. With a median follow-up of 47 months, 5-year disease and overall survival rates were 66 and 81%, respectively. Twenty-four patients had relapsed and 14 patients died. Her-2 status and the number of lymph nodes (< 20 vs. a parts per thousand yen20) had significant impact on disease-free survival in the univariate analysis (P = 0.03 and 0.05, respectively) and Her-2 retained its significant impact on disease-free survival in the multivariate analysis (P = 0.05). The prognosis of BC patients with N3a disease has changed favorably in the past decade with the current standards of care.
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    Treatment outcomes of breast cancer patients older than 65 years old received local radiotherapy
    (2014-09-30) ATASOY, BESTE MELEK; ÖZGEN, ZERRİN; YUMUK, PERRAN FULDEN; UĞURLU, MUSTAFA ÜMİT; KAYA, HANDAN; GÜLLÜOĞLU, MAHMUT BAHADIR; Atasoy B. M., Kefeli A., Özgen Z., Rzayev R., Yumuk P. F., Uğurlu M. Ü., Kaya H., Arıbal M. E., Güllüoğlu M. B.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    Is insulin resistance a predictor for complete response in breast cancer patients who underwent neoadjuvant treatment?
    (BMC, 2020-12) DANE, FAYSAL; Alan, Ozkan; Akin Telli, Tugba; Aktas, Bilge; Koca, Sinan; Okten, Ilker Nihat; Hasanov, Rahib; Basoglu, Tugba; Arikan, Rukiye; Demircan, Nazim Can; Ercelep, Ozlem; Kaya, Serap; Ugurlu, Mustafa Umit; Kaya, Handan; Akgul Babacan, Nalan; Dane, Faysal; Yumuk, Perran Fulden
    Purpose Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is the standard front-line treatment modality in locally advanced breast cancer. Achieving pathological complete response (pCR) is a significant prognostic factor for prolonged disease-free and overall survival. Insulin resistance is defined as a pathological condition in which insulin effect is impaired in peripheral target tissues such as the skeletal muscle, liver, and adipose tissue. The relationship between breast cancer and insulin resistance is controversial. In this study, our aim is to evaluate the role of insulin resistance, body mass index (BMI), metabolic syndrome, and inflammation markers to predict complete response in breast cancer patients who underwent neoadjuvant treatment. Methods Data from 55 locally advanced non-diabetic breast cancer patients, treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy between 2015 and 2017, were retrospectively evaluated. Homeostatic model assessment, IR = insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was calculated by using the obtained insulin and fasting blood glucose values before neoadjuvant chemotherapy (fasting insulin x fasting glucose/405). We considered a cut-off of 2.5 for insulin resistance. The systemic inflammatory index (SII), neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) were calculated. Results Twenty-five patients had no insulin resistance. The most common pathologic subtype (56%) was hormone receptor (HR) positive and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (Her-2)-negative invasive ductal carcinoma. Sixteen (29%) patients had a pathological complete response (pCR). We found that the probability of pCR in patients with insulin resistance was 4.7 times lower than that in patients without insulin resistance [OR: 4.7 (95%CI 1.7-17.2),p= 0.01]. Conclusion Our results revealed that insulin resistance may have a negative effect on pathological complete response (pCR) following neoadjuvant therapy particularly with hormone-positive and Her-2-negative cases of non-diabetic breast cancer.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    Smokers having Activating EGFR Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Might Benefit from EGFR-TKI Treatment - Single-Center Experience
    (KARE PUBL, 2020) DANE, FAYSAL; Ercelep, Ozlem; Telli, Tugba Akin; Alan, Ozkan; Hasanov, Rahib; Simsek, Eda Tanrikulu; Babacan, Nalan Akgul; Kaya, Serap; Kaya, Handan; Dane, Faysal; Yumuk, Perran Fulden
    OBJECTIVE This study aims to evaluate the predictive impacts of cigarette smoking on treatment outcomes of EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) patients with activating EGFR mutations. METHODS We retrospectively evaluated the data of 46 patients with metastatic NSCLC (adenocarcinoma) and EGFR mutation (exon 19 deletion, exon 21 mutation, and exon 18 activating mutation) treated with EGFR-TKI between 2012 and 2017. RESULTS Median age was 61 (range 30-80), and 56.5% (26/46) was female. Median follow-up was 39 months. The rate of smoking was 41.3% (19/46). The EGFR mutations were present in the patients, exon 19 deletion in 29 patients (64%), exon 21 mutation in 13 patients (28%) and exon 18 activating mutations in four patients (8%). Progression-free survival (PFS) was 21 months in smokers, whereas it was 25 months in non-smokers (p=0.330). Median PFS was 21 months for patients using EGFR-TKI in the first-line (35 patients), and 13 months in the second-line setting (11 patients). CONCLUSION There were no statistically significant PFS differences between the smoker and non-smoker groups. Smokers should be tested for EGFR mutations, as some patients may benefit from EGFR TKI treatment for longer than reported in the literature.
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    A case of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast with pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
    (MOSBY-ELSEVIER, 2019) KAYA, HANDAN; Alan, Ozkan; Telli, Tugba Akin; Ercelep, Ozlem; Hasanov, Rahib; Simsek, Eda Tanrikulu; Mutis, Aydan; Ones, Tunc; Kaya, Handan; Yumuk, Perran Fulden
    Background: Primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the breast is a metaplastic carcinoma subtype which includes fibromatosis-like and sarcomatoid features. This is a very aggressive tumor with poor prognosis. Other sites of primary SCC should be ruled out first to classify these tumors as primary SCC of the breast. Here we present a case of locally advanced primary SCC of the breast. Case Report: A 72 years old woman presented with a right axillary lump. Trucut biopsy was performed, it showed squamous cell carcinoma. Estrogen receptor had poor immunoreactivity, negative for both progesteron receptor and HER 2 in immunohistochemistry staining. PETCT imaging were conducted to showing only 6 x 6.5 cm mass in right breast adjacent to axilla, multiple lymphadenomegaly in right axillary. We planned neoadjuvant chemotherapy consisting of weekly paclitaxel followed by epirubicin and cyclophosphamide combination. Postoperative pathology revealed wide necrosis, no viable tumor cell. We started adjuvant anastrozole treatment of 1 mg/day. No evidence of disease was detected after 1 year follow up. Conclusion: Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast is a very rare disease with no standard treatment approach. Our case achieved pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    Association of Pre-treatment Sarcopenia with Side Effects and Prognosis in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Receiving Erlotinib
    (2022-08-01) DEMİRCAN, NAZIM CAN; ENGÜR, CEREN ÖZGE; AKIN TELLİ, TUĞBA; BAŞOĞLU TÜYLÜ, TUĞBA; ARIKAN, RUKİYE; ÖZGÜVEN, SALİH; DANE, FAYSAL; KAYA, HANDAN; ÖNEŞ, TUNÇ; YUMUK, PERRAN FULDEN; DEMİRCAN N. C. , ENGÜR C. Ö. , AKIN TELLİ T., BAŞOĞLU TÜYLÜ T., Arikan R., Yasar A., Celebi A., Alan O., Isik S., ÖZGÜVEN S., et al.
    OBJECTIVE We investigated the relationship of baseline sarcopenia with toxicities, treatment response, and survival in patients who had non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation and received erlotinib.METHODS Computed tomography images from PET/CT scans before erlotinib treatment were retrospectively assessed. Skeletal muscle index, calculated as skeletal muscle area at third lumbar vertebra level/square of height, was used to define sarcopenia with < 52.4 cm2/m2 for males and < 38.5 cm2/m2 for females. Cox hazard models were conducted to determine predictors of survival.RESULTS The study included 30 patients, and 11 (36.7%) were sarcopenic. All-grade and Grade 3 toxicities were more frequent in sarcopenic group, although it was statistically insignificant (81.8% vs. 63.2%, p=0.282 for all-grade, and 18.2% vs. 10.5%, p=0.552 for grade 3). Response rates were 63.6% in sarcopenic and 68.4% in non-sarcopenic patients (p=0.789). Median progression-free survival was 7.9 and 9.2 months in sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic cases, respectively (p=0.561). However, median overall survival (OS) of sarcopenic patients was significantly shorter than non-sarcopenic ones (11.8 vs. 30.2 months, p=0.023), and sarcopenia predicted OS independently in multivariate analysis (Hazard ratio=2.63, p=0.029).CONCLUSION Early recognition, treatment, and prevention of sarcopenia may improve long-term survival in EGFRmutant NSCLC patients treated with first-line erlotinib.