TY - GEN AU - Pellerino, Alessia AU - Priego, Neibla AU - Bertero, Luca AU - Ricci, Alessia Andrea AU - Mangherini, Luca AU - Bruno, Francesco AU - Beano, Alessandra AU - Mittica, Gloria AU - Mistrangelo, Marinella AU - Garbossa, Diego AU - Bosch-Barrera, Joaquim AU - Cassoni, Paola AU - Valiente, Manuel AU - Soffietti, Riccardo AU - Rudà, Roberta PY - 2025 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/27276 AB - A high pSTAT3 expression in reactive astrocytes surrounding brain metastases (BrM) promotes tumor growth in preclinical models. The impact of STAT3 expression on outcome of patients with BrM from breast cancer is unknown. AB - The expression of pSTAT3 in reactive astrocytes of 100 resected BrM from breast cancer was investigated by immunohistochemistry and correlated with molecular subtypes, risk of intracranial recurrence and progression-free survival. To explore whether... AB - High pSTAT3 expression in reactive astrocytes was detected in 57% of BrM, and prevailed in triple-negative (80.9%) over HER2-positive (43.2%) and luminal (33.3%) metastases (P = .002). A different pSTAT3 expression was confirmed in animal models: as... AB - This study indicates that STAT3 expression prevails in reactive astrocytes surrounding triple-negative BrM in comparison to HER2-positive and luminal BrM, and these findings mirror those observed in animal models. A high STAT3 expression correlates... LA - eng PB - Oxford KW - STAT3 expression KW - brain metastases KW - breast cancer KW - reactive astrocytes KW - silibinin TI - STAT3 expression in brain metastases from breast cancer is correlated with molecular subtype and impacts clinical outcome. TY - research article ER -