DI LEO , Angelo

Background: Several trials evaluated the role of ovarian function suppression for the adjuvant treatment of premenopausal patients with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer. Based on the results of the SOFT and TEXT trials, international guidelines recommend the addition of ovarian function suppression to standard adjuvant endocrine...

CDK4/6-inhibitors (CDK4/6i)+endocrine therapy (ET) prolonged progression-free survival as first/second-line therapy for hormone receptor-positive (HR+)/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer (MBC) prognosis. Given the recent publication of overall survival (OS) data for the three CDK4/6i, we performed a meta-analysis to identify a more precise...

Background Invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC) is the second most common histological subtype of breast cancer after invasive ductal cancer (IDC). Here, we aimed at evaluating the prevalence, levels, and composition of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and their association with clinico-pathological and outcome variables in ILC, and to...