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NPJ BREAST CANCER
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41523-019-0102-1
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- Clinical Research Career Development Award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund grants [16-116-CRCDA]
- Israeli Cancer Research Association [20170140]
- Breast Research Cancer Foundation (BCRF)
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Numerous studies have focused on the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in estrogen receptor positive (ER) breast cancer (BC), as a linear signal transduction pathway and reported its association with worse clinical outcomes. We developed gene signatures that reflect the level of expression of phosphorylated-Serine473-AKT (pAKT) and phosphorylated-Serine2448-mTOR (p-mTOR) separately, capturing their corresponding level of pathway activation. Our analysis revealed that the pAKT pathway activation was associated with luminal A BC while the p-mTOR pathway activation was more associated with luminal B BC (Kruskal-Wallis test p < 10(-10)). pAKT pathway activation was significantly associated with better outcomes (multivariable HR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.74-0.85; p = 2.5 x 10(-10)) and PIK3CA mutations (p = 0.0001) whereas p-mTOR pathway activation showed worse outcomes (multivariable HR, 1.1; 95% CI, 1.1-1.2; p = 9.9 x 10(-4)) and associated with p53 mutations (p = 0.04). in conclusion, our data show that pAKT and p-mTOR pathway activation have differing impact on prognosis and suggest that they are not linearly connected in luminal breast cancers.
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