MARIA MITZI BRENTANI

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Departamento de Radiologia, Faculdade de Medicina - Docente
LIM/24 - Laboratório de Oncologia Experimental, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Líder
LIM/05 - Laboratório de Poluição Atmosférica Experimental, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina

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  • article
    Immunoexpression of claudins 4 and 7 among invasive breast carcinoma subtypes: A large diagnostic study using tissue microarray
    (2018) LOGULLO, Angela Flavia; PASINI, Fatima Solange; NONOGAKI, Suely; ROCHA, Rafael Malagoli; SOARES, Fernando Augusto; BRENTANI, Maria Mitzi
    Molecular phenotyping and tissue microarray (TMA) studies have identified distinct invasive breast carcinoma subtypes: Luminal A, luminal B, enriched with overexpressed human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2) and triple-negative, i.e., negative for HER-2, as well as for estrogen and progesterone receptor (ER and PR, respectively) expression. These subtypes are useful in clinical management, since they bear distinct prognoses and predictive responses to targeted therapy. However, although molecular profiling provides important prognostic indicators, breast cancer risk stratification remains a challenge in triple-negative cases. What is referred to as claudin-low subtype was identified as a triple-negative subset that is associated with more aggressive tumor behavior and worse prognosis. However, the immunohistochemical expression of claudins has not yet been standardized. Our objective was to verify whether the immunoexpression of claudins 4 and 7 (the main claudins specifically expressed in human breast tissue) in TMA is associated with survival and prognosis in luminal A, HER-2 and triple-negative molecular subtypes. In this diagnostic study, we investigated ER/PR receptor status, HER-2, claudin 4 and 7 expression and stem cell CD44/24 profiles, and verified the association with prognosis and survival outcomes in 803 invasive breast carcinoma cases arranged in four TMAs. Among these, 503 (62.6%) were positive for claudin 4 and 369 (46.0%) for claudin 7. Claudin 4 exhibited the lowest expression in luminal A and triple-negative subtypes, and the highest frequency of expression in HER-2-enriched subtypes, whereas claudin 7 staining was not associated with any subtype. The stem cell phenotype was not associated with subgroups or claudins 4 and 7. Claudin immunoexpression profile was not able to distinguish between patients with better or worse prognosis, and it was not correlated to triple-negative cases. Therefore, it may be concluded that the immunoexpression of claudins 4 and 7, individually or within the usual immunohistochemical context (ER, PR and HER-2), does not provide additional prognostic information on breast cancer subtypes.
  • article 13 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Down-regulation of ANAPC13 and CLTCL1: Early Events in the Progression of Preinvasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast
    (2012) SENS-ABUAZAR, Carolina; FERREIRA, Elisa Napolitano e; OSORIO, Cynthia Aparecida Bueno Toledo; KREPISCHI, Ana Cristina Victorino; RICCA, Tatiana Iervolino; CASTRO, Nadia Pereira; CUNHA, Isabela Werneck da; MACIEL, Maria do Socorro; ROSENBERG, Carla; BRENTANI, Maria Mitzi; SOARES, Fernando Augusto; ROCHA, Rafael Malagoli; CARRARO, Dirce Maria
    Alterations in the gene expression profile in epithelial cells during breast ductal carcinoma (DC) progression have been shown to occur mainly between pure ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) to the in situ component of a lesion with coexisting invasive ductal carcinoma (DCIS-IDC) implying that the molecular program for invasion is already established in the preinvasive lesion. For assessing early molecular alterations in epithelial cells that trigger tumorigenesis and testing them as prognostic markers for breast ductal carcinoma progression, we analyzed, by reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction, eight genes previously identified as differentially expressed between epithelial tumor cells populations captured from preinvasive lesions with distinct malignant potential, pure DCIS and the in situ component of DCIS-IDC. ANAPC13 and CLTCL1 down-regulation revealed to be early events of DC progression that anticipated the invasiveness manifestation. Further down-regulation of ANAPC13 also occurred after invasion appearance and the presence of the protein in invasive tumor samples was associated with higher rates of overall and disease-free survival in breast cancer patients. Furthermore, tumors with low levels of ANAPC13 displayed increased copy number alterations, with significant gains at 1q (1q23.1-1q32.1), 8q, and 17q (17q24.2), regions that display common imbalances in breast tumors, suggesting that down-regulation of ANAPC13 contributes to genomic instability in this disease.
  • article 24 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Somatic mutations in early onset luminal breast cancer
    (2018) ENCINAS, G.; SABELNYKOVA, V. Y.; LYRA, E. C. de; KATAYAMA, M. L. H.; MAISTRO, S.; VALLE, P. W. M. V.; PEREIRA, G. F. L.; RODRIGUES, L. M.; SERIO, P. A. M. P.; GOUVêA, A. C. R. C. de; GEYER, F. C.; BASSO, R. A.; PASINI, F. S.; DIZ, M. P. E.; BRENTANI, M. M.; GóES, J. C. G. S.; CHAMMAS, R.; BOUTROS, P. C.; FOLGUEIRA, M. A. A. K.
    Breast cancer arising in very young patients may be biologically distinct; however, these tumors have been less well studied. We characterized a group of very young patients (≤ 35 years) for BRCA germline mutation and for somatic mutations in luminal (HER2 negative) breast cancer. Thirteen of 79 unselected very young patients were BRCA1/2 germline mutation carriers. Of the non-BRCA tumors, eight with luminal subtype (HER2 negative) were submitted for whole exome sequencing and integrated with 29 luminal samples from the COSMIC database or previous literature for analysis. We identified C to T single nucleotide variants (SNVs) as the most common base-change. A median of six candidate driver genes was mutated by SNVs in each sample and the most frequently mutated genes were PIK3CA, GATA3, TP53 and MAP2K4. Potential cancer drivers affected in the present non-BRCA tumors include GRHL2, PIK3AP1, CACNA1E, SEMA6D, SMURF2, RSBN1 and MTHFD2. Sixteen out of 37 luminal tumors (43%) harbored SNVs in DNA repair genes, such as ATR, BAP1, ERCC6, FANCD2, FANCL, MLH1, MUTYH, PALB2, POLD1, POLE, RAD9A, RAD51 and TP53, and 54% presented pathogenic mutations (frameshift or nonsense) in at least one gene involved in gene transcription. The differential biology of luminal early-age onset breast cancer needs a deeper genomic investigation. © Encinas et al.
  • article
    MYC is expressed in the stromal and epithelial cells of primary breast carcinoma and paired nodal metastases
    (2015) MUNDIM, Fiorita Gonzales Lopes; PASINI, Fatima Solange; BRENTANI, Maria Mitzi; SOARES, Fernando Augusto; NONOGAKI, Suely; WAITZBERG, Angela Flayia Logullo
    The MYC oncogene is directly involved in the proliferation, metabolism, progression and distant metastasis of breast cancer. Since metastatic spread to the lymph nodes is often the first indication of propensity for metastatic dissemination, the MYC status in nodal disease may represent a decision-making variable. However, the analysis of MYC expression in stromal cells, namely cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), which are known to play a critical role in cancer progression, remains poorly reported. The aim of this study was to determine the expression of MYC and other markers, including estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), p53, Ki67, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), phosphorylated AKT (p-AKT) and phospho-mammalian target of rapamycin (p-mTOR) by immunohistochemistry in representative samples from 80 patients with ductal infiltrative breast cancer and 43 paired compromised axillary lymph nodes allocated in tissue microarrays (TMAs). The epithelial and stromal components of primary tumors and respective lymph node metastases were separately analyzed. MYC expression (cytoplasmic and nuclear) was a frequent event in the epithelial and stromal components of the primary tumors. The epithelial cells in the nodal metastases exhibited a trend for decreased MYC expression compared to that in the primary tumors (P=0.08) but retained the original status of the primary tumors for all other markers. The stromal cells were uniformly negative for ER, PR, HER2, p53, Ki67 and EGFR. Comparison of the stromas of primary tumors and respective lymph node metastases revealed a reduced frequency of nuclear MYC in 15% of the cases (P=0.003), whereas p-mTOR followed a similar trend (P=0.09). Analyses of the possible correlations among markers revealed that epithelial nuclear MYC was associated with p53 (P=0.048). This is an original study demonstrating a significant proportion of MYC expression (nuclear or cytoplasmic), as well p-mTOR and p-AKT expression, in the epithelial and stromal components of either the primary tumor or the nodal metastases. CAFs expressing MYC may establish an angiogenic microenvironment supporting cancer survival and facilitating colonization at the nodal metastatic site.
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    Fibroblast transcriptome sequencing reveals different gene expression profiles among distinct subtypes of breast cancer and normal mammary tissue
    (2012) BROMBERG, Natalia; FERREIRA, Elisa Napolitano; MOLINA, Gustavo Campos; PUGA, Renato David; CARRARO, Dirce Maria; BRENTANI, Maria Mitzi
  • article 30 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    The role of oncoplastic breast conserving treatment for locally advanced breast tumors. A matching case-control study
    (2016) VIEIRA, Rene Aloisio da Costa; CARRARA, Guilherme Freire Angotti; SCAPULATEMPO NETO, Cristovam; MORINI, Mariana Andozia; BRENTANI, Maria Mitzi; FOLGUEIRA, Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike
    Background: Breast conserving surgery (BCS) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC) in patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) is an infrequent procedure. In these patients the association with BCS and oncoplastic surgery (OS) is reported as a possible procedure in case-series, but there are limited case-control studies. Methods: A matched case-control study evaluated LABC submitted to NC and BCS. We evaluated 78 patients submitted to doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide regimen followed by paclitaxel regimen. The match case-control proportion was 2: 1 and the patients were selected by tumor size, clinical T stage and year of diagnosis. Results: 52 underwent classic BCS and 26 OS. The average size tumor was 5.25 cm and 88.5% of the tumors were larger than 3 cm. The clinical and pathological group characteristics were similar, except the weight of surgical specimens (p = 0.004), and surgical margins (p = 0.06), which were higher in OS group. The rate of complete pathologic response was 26.9%. 97.4% received postoperative radiotherapy. At 67.1 months of follow up, 10.2% had local recurrence (LR) and 12.8% locoregional recurrence (LRR) and 19.2% died because disease progression. The overall survival at 60 months was 81.7%. After surgery the disease free-survival at 60 months was 76.5%. The was no difference between groups related to pathologic response (p = 0.42), LR (p = 0.71), LRR (p = 1.00), overall survival (p = 0.99) and disease specific survival (p = 0.87). Conclusion: This study corroborates the fact that OS is a safety procedure for LABC, offering the similar oncologic results observed in patients submitted to classic BCS. (C) 2016 The Author(s).
  • article 32 Citação(ões) na Scopus
    Transcriptional profile of fibroblasts obtained from the primary site, lymph node and bone marrow of breast cancer patients
    (2014) VALLE, Paulo Roberto Del; MILANI, Cintia; BRENTANI, Maria Mitzi; KATAYAMA, Maria Lucia Hirata; LYRA, Eduardo Carneiro de; CARRARO, Dirce Maria; BRENTANI, Helena; PUGA, Renato; LIMA, Leandro A.; ROZENCHAN, Patricia Bortman; NUNES, Barbara dos Santos; GOES, Joao Carlos Guedes Sampaio; FOLGUEIRA, Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike
    Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) influence tumor development at primary as well as in metastatic sites, but there have been no direct comparisons of the transcriptional profiles of stromal cells from different tumor sites. In this study, we used customized cDNA microarrays to compare the gene expression profile of stromal cells from primary tumor (CAF, n = 4), lymph node metastasis (N+, n = 3) and bone marrow (BM, n = 4) obtained from breast cancer patients. Biological validation was done in another 16 samples by RT-qPCR. Differences between CAF vs N+, CAF vs BM and N+ vs BM were represented by 20, 235 and 245 genes, respectively (SAM test, FDR < 0.01). Functional analysis revealed that genes related to development and morphogenesis were overrepresented. In a biological validation set, NOTCH2 was confirmed to be more expressed in N+ (vs CAF) and ADCY2, HECTD1, HNMT, LOX, MACF1, SLC1A3 and USP16 more expressed in BM (vs CAF). Only small differences were observed in the transcriptional profiles of fibroblasts from the primary tumor and lymph node of breast cancer patients, whereas greater differences were observed between bone marrow stromal cells and the other two sites. These differences may reflect the activities of distinct differentiation programs.