PMID- 37341066 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230901 LR - 20230902 IS - 2045-7634 (Electronic) IS - 2045-7634 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 15 DP - 2023 Aug TI - MCP-1 expression in breast cancer and its association with distant relapse. PG - 16221-16230 LID - 10.1002/cam4.6284 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Distant relapse of breast cancer complicates management of the disease and accounts for 90% of breast cancer-related deaths. Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) has critical roles in breast cancer progression and is widely accepted as a pro-metastatic chemokine. METHODS: This study explored MCP-1 expression in the primary tumour of 251 breast cancer patients. A simplified 'histoscore' was used to determine if each tumour had high or low expression of MCP-1. Patient breast cancers were retrospectively staged based on available patient data. p < 0.05 was used to determine significance and changes in hazard ratios between models were considered. RESULTS: Low MCP-1 expression in the primary tumour was associated with breast cancer-related death with distant relapse in ER- breast cancers (p < 0.01); however, this was likely a result of most low MCP-1-expressing ER- breast cancers being Stage III or Stage IV, with high MCP-1 expression in the primary tumour significantly correlated with Stage I breast cancers (p < 0.05). Expression of MCP-1 in the primary ER- tumours varied across Stage I, II, III and IV and we highlighted a switch in MCP-1 expression from high in Stage I ER- cancers to low in Stage IV ER- cancers. CONCLUSION: This study has emphasised a critical need for further investigation into MCP-1's role in breast cancer progression and improved characterisation of MCP-1 in breast cancers, particularly in light of the development of anti-MCP-1, anti-metastatic therapies. CI - (c) 2023 The Authors. Cancer Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Mulholland, Bridie S AU - Mulholland BS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3640-5811 AD - Graduate School of Medicine, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. AD - Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia. FAU - Hofstee, Pierre AU - Hofstee P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4716-4016 AD - Graduate School of Medicine, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. AD - The Tweed Hospital, Northern New South Wales Local Health District, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. FAU - Millar, Ewan K A AU - Millar EKA AD - St George and Sutherland Clinical Campuses, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. AD - Department of Anatomical Pathology, NSW Health Pathology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, Australia. AD - Translational Breast Cancer Research Group, Cancer Ecosystems Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. FAU - Bliuc, Dana AU - Bliuc D AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9682-2313 AD - Bone Microenvironment Group, Skeletal Diseases Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. FAU - O'Toole, Sandra AU - O'Toole S AD - Translational Breast Cancer Research Group, Cancer Ecosystems Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. AD - Department of Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Pathology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia. AD - Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia. FAU - Forwood, Mark R AU - Forwood MR AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9963-1616 AD - School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. FAU - McDonald, Michelle M AU - McDonald MM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3928-2506 AD - Bone Microenvironment Group, Skeletal Diseases Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. AD - School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20230621 PL - United States TA - Cancer Med JT - Cancer medicine JID - 101595310 RN - 0 (Chemokine CCL2) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Female MH - *Breast Neoplasms/pathology MH - Chemokine CCL2/genetics MH - Retrospective Studies MH - Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/pathology MH - Breast/pathology MH - Chronic Disease PMC - PMC10469641 OTO - NOTNLM OT - CCL2 OT - metastasis OT - neoplasm OT - protein OT - tumour COIS- The authors declare that they have no competing interests. EDAT- 2023/06/21 06:42 MHDA- 2023/09/01 06:43 PMCR- 2023/06/21 CRDT- 2023/06/21 05:53 PHST- 2023/06/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/02/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/06/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/09/01 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2023/06/21 06:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/06/21 05:53 [entrez] PHST- 2023/06/21 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - CAM46284 [pii] AID - 10.1002/cam4.6284 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cancer Med. 2023 Aug;12(15):16221-16230. doi: 10.1002/cam4.6284. Epub 2023 Jun 21.