Yun Gong
MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Title: Biomarkers that have prognostic and therapeutic importance for inflammatory breast cancer
Biography
Biography: Yun Gong
Abstract
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is rare but the most lethal type of breast cancer. IBC is often associated with early metastasis and resistance to conventional therapies. Understanding biological insights that underlie the aggressive behavior of IBC and identifying novel therapeutic strategies are highly desirable for improvement of clinical outcome in patients with IBC. This presentation will cover the clinic-pathologic significance of some important biomarkers expression in a cohort of IBC that have long-term clinical follow-up and treatment information. Our results indicated that EZH2 and PD-L1 (clone 28-8) expression status may be used to identify a subset of patients who have a relatively worse prognosis. Targeting EZH2 also may provide a novel strategy for improving the clinical outcome of patients with IBC. In addition, androgen receptor expression was significantly associated with lymphovascular invasion. Additional information and discussion will be presented.