Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Chemotherapy induces dynamic immune responses in breast cancers that impact treatment outcome

  • Yeon Hee Park,
  • Samir Lal,
  • Jeong Eon Lee,
  • Yoon-La Choi,
  • Ji Wen,
  • Sripad Ram,
  • Ying Ding,
  • Soo-Hyeon Lee,
  • Eric Powell,
  • Se Kyung Lee,
  • Jong Han Yu,
  • Keith A. Ching,
  • Jae-Yong Nam,
  • Seok Won Kim,
  • Seok Jin Nam,
  • Ji-Yeon Kim,
  • Soo Youn Cho,
  • Seri Park,
  • Jinho Kim,
  • Soohyn Hwang,
  • Yu Jin Kim,
  • Vinicius Bonato,
  • Diane Fernandez,
  • Shibing Deng,
  • Shuoguo Wang,
  • Hyuntae Shin,
  • Eun-Suk Kang,
  • Woong-Yang Park,
  • Paul A. Rejto,
  • Jadwiga Bienkowska,
  • Zhengyan Kan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19933-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a therapeutic option for the treatment of breast cancer. Here, the authors characterize changes in the gene expression profiles and immune microenvironment in serial breast cancer biopsies taken before, during and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.