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Low levels of Stat5a protein in breast cancer are associated with tumor progression and unfavorable clinical outcomes

Overview of attention for article published in Breast Cancer Research, October 2012
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Title
Low levels of Stat5a protein in breast cancer are associated with tumor progression and unfavorable clinical outcomes
Published in
Breast Cancer Research, October 2012
DOI 10.1186/bcr3328
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Amy R Peck, Agnieszka K Witkiewicz, Chengbao Liu, Alexander C Klimowicz, Ginger A Stringer, Edward Pequignot, Boris Freydin, Ning Yang, Adam Ertel, Thai H Tran, Melanie A Girondo, Anne L Rosenberg, Jeffrey A Hooke, Albert J Kovatich, Craig D Shriver, David L Rimm, Anthony M Magliocco, Terry Hyslop, Hallgeir Rui

Abstract

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: Signal transducer and activator of transcripton-5a (Stat5a) and its close homologue, Stat5b, mediate key physiological effects of prolactin and growth hormone in mammary glands. In breast cancer, loss of nuclear localized and tyrosine phosphorylated Stat5a/b is associated with poor prognosis and increased risk of antiestrogen therapy failure. Here we quantify for the first time levels of Stat5a and Stat5b over breast cancer progression, and explore their potential association with clinical outcome. METHODS: Stat5a and Stat5b protein levels were quantified in situ in breast-cancer progression material. Stat5a and Stat5b transcript levels in breast cancer were correlated with clinical outcome in 936 patients. Stat5a protein was further quantified in four archival cohorts totaling 686 patients with clinical outcome data by using multivariate models. RESULTS: Protein levels of Stat5a but not Stat5b were reduced in primary breast cancer and lymph node metastases compared with normal epithelia. Low tumor levels of Stat5a but not Stat5b mRNA were associated with poor prognosis. Experimentally, only limited overlap between Stat5a- and Stat5b-modulated genes was found. In two cohorts of therapy-naïve, node-negative breast cancer patients, low nuclear Stat5a protein levels were an independent marker of poor prognosis. Multivariate analysis of two cohorts treated with antiestrogen monotherapy revealed that low nuclear Stat5a levels were associated with a more than fourfold risk of unfavorable outcome. CONCLUSIONS: Loss of Stat5a represents a new independent marker of poor prognosis in node-negative breast cancer and may be a predictor of response to antiestrogen therapy if validated in randomized clinical trials.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Austria 1 2%
Unknown 49 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 24%
Researcher 10 20%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Student > Master 3 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 7 14%
Unknown 12 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 18%
Chemistry 3 6%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 12 24%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 October 2020.
All research outputs
#3,696,650
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Breast Cancer Research
#436
of 2,052 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,715
of 191,550 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Breast Cancer Research
#5
of 38 outputs
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