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. 2024 May 2;16(5):e59553.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.59553. eCollection 2024 May.

The Role of Circulating MicroRNAs in the Prediction of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer in the Indian Population

Shyam Tripathi  1 , Jayanthi Mathaiyan  1 , Smita Kayal  2 , Rajesh Nachiappa Ganesh  3
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The Role of Circulating MicroRNAs in the Prediction of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer in the Indian Population

Shyam Tripathi et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

Introduction: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to play an important role in cancer cell proliferation, susceptibility of cancer cells to chemotherapy, and patient survival. Identifying miRNAs that can predict response to chemotherapy in locally advanced breast cancer (LABC), the most common variant, can help to choose appropriate drug regimens to suit the epigenetic profile of individual patients.

Objective: To investigate the expression of the differentially expressed miRNAs identified by next-generation sequencing from a pilot study involving cases and controls, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of patients with LABC during the course of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and determine their role in response to chemotherapy.

Methods: This study included 30 newly diagnosed LABC patients. Peripheral blood from every participant was collected before the start of chemotherapy, at the end of the third cycle, and at the end of the seventh cycle of NAC. Based on the results of a pilot study in a similar population with suitable controls, four differentially expressed miRNAs namely miR-24-2, miR-192-5p, miR-3609, and miR-664b-3p were considered to be validated in this study. The expression of these four miRNAs was examined by qRT-PCR, and their association with response to chemotherapy was analyzed.

Result: A significant change in the expression of miR-192-5p was found in responders (p = 0.001) over a period of seven cycles and the difference between the expression of miR-24-2 from baseline to the seventh cycle of NAC was higher in responders while compared to the non-responders (p < 0.05).

Conclusion: miR-192-5p and miR-24-2 were identified as predictive biomarkers for response to NAC in south Indian patients with LABC.

Keywords: labc; mirna; nac; pbmc; rt-pcr.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. The Ct value for miR-24-2, miR-192-5p, miR-3609 and miR664b-3p and housekeeping gene U6
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