The potential to expand the current treatment for HER2-low and -zero patients, highlights the limitations of traditional HER2 assessment, including HER2 intra-tumoral heterogeneity, differential IHC pathology staining, and inter-reader variability. We therefore sought to address how to optimally identify HER2-low…
Here, we developed two solutions to communication bottlenecks that speed-up simulation by ∼4-fold for hybrid stochastic-deterministic simulations and by over 100-fold for fully deterministic simulations.
Here, we perform a study in an independent cohort of early-stage and locally advanced breast cancer patients to forecast tumor response to NAT and assess the stability of a previously validated biophysical simulation platform.
Here, we perform a study in an independent cohort of early-stage and locally advanced breast cancer patients to forecast tumor response to NAT and assess the stability of a previously validated biophysical simulation platform.
Here we performed a proof-of-concept study using trastuzumab emtansine (TDM1), a targeted drug for HER2-enriched breast cancer, to demonstrate how biophysical modeling can support dose selection in phase I clinical trials.
Pathologic complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in early breast cancer (EBC) is largely dependent on breast cancer subtype, but no clinical-grade model exists to predict response and guide selection of treatment. A biophysical simulation of response to NAC…
Abstract Background: Race-related differences in breast cancer incidence and clinical outcome have been well documented, with many studies focusing on socioeconomic determinants contributing to African American (AA) breast cancer patients having higher mortality rates. Far less is understood about the…
Abstract Tumor heterogeneity is known to play a key role in drug response and resistance. However, knowledge of tumor heterogeneity is largely limited to genetics and biopsy samples representing one region of the tumor. The study of spatial tumor heterogeneity…
Abstract Background: The 21-gene (Oncotype DX) recurrence score (RS) has been utilized as a prognostic assay in patients with hormone receptor-positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2–) breast cancer. The results stratify patients into low-, mid- and high-risk…
Abstract While most cancer patients are treated at community hospitals, specialized equipment, diagnostic tests, and therapeutic regimens are generally validated at academic settings. Here we present a novel approach to precision medicine to improve outcomes in breast cancer care in…