Plasma cell infiltration and treatment effect in breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Abstract Background Tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL)-high breast tumours have a high rate of pathological complete response (pCR) with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. In our routine pathological diagnoses of biopsy specimens from pCR cases, we have observed a high infiltration of plasma cells (PCs). A...

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Main Authors: Asumi Sakaguchi, Yoshiya Horimoto, Hiroko Onagi, Daiki Ikarashi, Takayuki Nakayama, Tetsuya Nakatsura, Hideo Shimizu, Kuniaki Kojima, Takashi Yao, Toshiharu Matsumoto, Kanako Ogura, Shigehisa Kitano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-10-01
Series:Breast Cancer Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-021-01477-w