Maria Luisa Gasparri, Sara Albasini, Marta Truffi, Karin Favilla, Barbara Tagliaferri, Francesca Piccotti, Daniela Bossi, Giulia Armatura, Arianna Calcinotto, Corrado Chiappa, Francesca Combi, Annalisa Curcio, Angelica Della Valle, Guglielmo Ferrari, Secondo Folli, Matteo Ghilli, Chiara Listorti, Stefano Mancini, Peter Marinello, Simone Mele, Anna Pertusati, Manuela Roncella, Lorenzo Rossi, Francesca Rovera, Silvia Segattini, Adele Sgarella, Daniela Tognali, Fabio Corsi
BACKGROUND: Systemic inflammatory markers draw great interest as potential blood-based prognostic factors in several oncological settings. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to evaluate whether neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and pan-immune-inflammation value (PIV) predict nodal pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in node-positive (cN+) breast cancer (BC) patients. DESIGN: Clinically, cN+ BC patients undergoing NAC followed by breast and axillary surgery were enrolled in a multicentric study from 11 Breast Units...
2023: Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology