Developing plasma DNA as a surrogate for tumor biopsy to identify tumor genetic alterations in patients with advanced breast cancer
NCT01836640
This study determined whether circulating tumor DNA in plasma is genetically reflective of the heterogeneity between primary and metastatic tumors within patients with advanced breast cancer.
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Plasma DNA as a "liquid biopsy" incompletely complements tumor biopsy for identification of mutations in a case series of four patients with oligometastatic breast cancer.
Mary D Chamberlin, Jason D Wells, Kevin Shee, Jennifer R Bean, Jonathan D Marotti, Wendy A Wells, Heidi W Trask, Fred W Kolling, Ananta Bhatt, Peter A Kaufman, Gary N Schwartz, John M Gemery, Nancy J McNulty, Michael J Tsapakos, Richard J Barth, Bradley A Arrick, Jiang Gui, Todd W Miller.
Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Aug;182(3):665-677. doi: 10.1007/s10549-020-05714-2. Epub 2020 Jun 19.
Phase I study of the combination of MLN9708 and fulvestrant
NCT02384746
This study evaluates the safety and efficacy of the novel combination of the proteasome inhibitor MLN9708 (ixazomib) with the anti-estrogen fulvestrant in patients with advanced ER+ breast cancer that is progressing on fulvestrant.
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Phase Ib Study of the Oral Proteasome Inhibitor Ixazomib (MLN9708) and Fulvestrant in Advanced ER+ Breast Cancer Progressing on Fulvestrant.
Gary Schwartz, Kevin Shee, Bianca Romo, Jonathan Marotti, Alexei Kisselev, Lionel Lewis, Todd Miller.
Oncologist. 2021 Jun;26(6):467-e924. doi: 10.1002/onco.13733. Epub 2021 Mar 18.
Presurgical treatment with letrozole in patients with early-stage breast cancer
NCT02010021
This study evaluated whether mTORC1 inhibition of ER+/HER2- primary breast tumors ex vivo activates feedback signaling to IRS-1/PI3K/AKT, and whether presurgical treatment with an aromatase inhibitor abrogates such feedback.
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Estrogen receptor alpha drives mTORC1 inhibitor-induced feedback activation of PI3K/AKT in ER+ breast cancer.
Wei Yang, Gary N Schwartz, Jonathan D Marotti, Vivian Chen, Nicole A Traphagen, Jiang Gui, Todd W Miller.
Oncotarget. 2018 Jan 15;9(10):8810-8822. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.24256. eCollection 2018 Feb 6.
Early-phase study to assess inhibitor ribociclib in patients with recurrent glioblastoma or anaplastic glioma
NCT02345824
In this study, patients with recurrent glioblastoma or anaplastic glioma were treated with ribociclib for 8-14 days before surgical resection of tumor to assess tumor pharmacokinetics and biomarker changes.
Patients with Rb+ tumors continued ribociclib treatment until disease recurrence/progression.
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Tumor pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib in patients with recurrent glioblastoma.
Todd W Miller, Nicole A Traphagen, Jing Li, Lionel D Lewis, Beatriz Lopes, Ashok Asthagiri, Johanna Loomba, Jenny De Jong, David Schiff, Sohil H Patel, Benjamin W Purow, Camilo E Fadul.
J Neurooncol. 2019 Sep;144(3):563-572. doi: 10.1007/s11060-019-03258-0. Epub 2019 Aug 9.
Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer patient-derived xenografts
NCT02752893
This study established a PDX platform at Dartmouth to generate novel mouse models of ER+/HER2- breast cancer, which will be used to develop novel treatment strategies and dissect signaling pathways underlying drug sensitivity and resistance.
Metformin pharmacology in human cancers: a proof of principle study
NCT03477162
This study determined the concentrations of metformin in blood, plasma, tumor tissue, adipose tissue, and lung tissue in patients with thoracic tumors.
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Tumour, whole-blood, plasma and tissue concentrations of metformin in lung cancer patients.
Joseph D Phillips, Darcy B Pooler, Dylan B Ness, Kayla Fay, Steven Tau, Eugene Demidenko, Riley A Hampsch, Lionel D Lewis, Todd W Miller.
Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2023 Mar;89(3):1027-1035. doi: 10.1111/bcp.15546. Epub 2022 Oct 12.