Browsing by Author "Griffith, Malachi"

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    A New Era of Data-Driven Cancer Research and Care: Opportunities and Challenges
    (American Association for Cancer Research, 2024) Gomez, Felicia; Danos, Arpad M.; Del Fiol, Guilherme; Madabhushi, Anant; Tiwari, Pallavi; McMichael, Joshua F.; Bakas, Spyridon; Bian, Jiang; Davatzikos, Christos; Fertig, Elana J.; Kalpathy-Cramer, Jayashree; Kenney, Johanna; Savova, Guergana K.; Yetisgen, Meliha; Van Allen, Eliezer M.; Warner, Jeremy L.; Prior, Fred; Griffith, Malachi; Griffith, Obi L.; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
    People diagnosed with cancer and their formal and informal caregivers are increasingly faced with a deluge of complex information, thanks to rapid advancements in the type and volume of diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment data. This commentary discusses the opportunities and challenges that the society faces as we integrate large volumes of data into regular cancer care.
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    Immunogenomic profiling and pathological response results from a clinical trial of docetaxel and carboplatin in triple negative breast cancer
    (Springer, 2021) Ademuyiwa, Foluso O.; Chen, Ina; Luo, Jingqin; Rimawi, Mothaffar F.; Hagemann, Ian S.; Fisk, Bryan; Jeffers, Gejae; Skidmore, Zachary L.; Basu, Anamika; Richters, Megan; Ma, Cynthia X.; Weilbaecher, Katherine; Davis, Jennifer; Suresh, Rama; Peterson, Lindsay L.; Bose, Ron; Bagegni, Nusayba; Rigden, Caron E.; Frith, Ashley; Rearden, Timothy P.; Hernandez-Aya, Leonel F.; Roshal, Anna; Clifton, Katherine; Opyrchal, Mateusz; Akintola-Ogunremi, Olaronke; Lee, Byung Ha; Ferrando-Martinez, Sara; Church, Sarah E.; Anurag, Meenakshi; Ellis, Matthew J.; Gao, Feng; Gillanders, William; Griffith, Obi L.; Griffith, Malachi; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Purpose: Patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who do not achieve pathological complete response (pCR) following neoadjuvant chemotherapy have a high risk of recurrence and death. Molecular characterization may identify patients unlikely to achieve pCR. This neoadjuvant trial was conducted to determine the pCR rate with docetaxel and carboplatin and to identify molecular alterations and/or immune gene signatures predicting pCR. Experimental design: Patients with clinical stages II/III TNBC received 6 cycles of docetaxel and carboplatin. The primary objective was to determine if neoadjuvant docetaxel and carboplatin would increase the pCR rate in TNBC compared to historical expectations. We performed whole-exome sequencing (WES) and immune profiling on pre-treatment tumor samples to identify alterations that may predict pCR. Thirteen matching on-treatment samples were also analyzed to assess changes in molecular profiles. Results: Fifty-eight of 127 (45.7%) patients achieved pCR. There was a non-significant trend toward higher mutation burden for patients with residual cancer burden (RCB) 0/I versus RCB II/III (median 80 versus 68 variants, p 0.88). TP53 was the most frequently mutated gene, observed in 85.7% of tumors. EGFR, RB1, RAD51AP2, SDK2, L1CAM, KPRP, PCDHA1, CACNA1S, CFAP58, COL22A1, and COL4A5 mutations were observed almost exclusively in pre-treatment samples from patients who achieved pCR. Seven mutations in PCDHA1 were observed in pre-treatment samples from patients who did not achieve pCR. Several immune gene signatures including IDO1, PD-L1, interferon gamma signaling, CTLA4, cytotoxicity, tumor inflammation signature, inflammatory chemokines, cytotoxic cells, lymphoid, PD-L2, exhausted CD8, Tregs, and immunoproteasome were upregulated in pre-treatment samples from patients who achieved pCR. Conclusion: Neoadjuvant docetaxel and carboplatin resulted in a pCR of 45.7%. WES and immune profiling differentiated patients with and without pCR.