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Effect of surgical wound fluids after intraoperative electron radiotherapy on the cancer stem cell phenotype in a panel of human breast cancer cell lines

  • Authors:
    • Karolina Zaleska
    • Wiktoria Maria Suchorska
    • Anna Przybyła
    • Dawid Murawa
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  • Published online on: September 21, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.5167
  • Pages: 3707-3714
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Abstract

The wound healing process after surgery alters the area surrounding the original tumor and around the scar, and the modified microenvironment is more favorable for tumor recurrence. Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is one of the more novel strategies in breast cancer (BC) treatment. Irradiation during surgery has effects on the tumor microenvironment, abrogating the proliferative cascade induced by surgical wound healing. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of surgical wound fluids from IOERT treatment (RT‑WF) compared with wound fluids from conservative‑breast surgery only (WF) on the cancer stem cell phenotype in a panel of BC cell lines. Post‑operative wound fluids were derived from patients with BC who underwent a tumor resection (quadrantectomy) plus intraoperative electron radiotherapy using a single dose of ≤10 Gy on the tumor bed and surrounding tissues, or from those who underwent a tumor resection without IOERT. Cell lines were incubated with 10% wound fluids, and after 4 days, the cluster of differentiation (CD)44+/CD24‑/low phenotype and aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) activity were determined by flow cytometry. The two types of fluid each affected the CD44+/CD24‑/low phenotype. The results varied markedly between each cell line, even for the same histological subtypes. RT‑WF decreased the CD44+/CD24‑/low populations in the basal‑like BT‑549 and MDA‑MB‑468 cell lines, whereas in the luminal type MCF7 cell line, the two fluids inhibited these populations. The HER‑OE subtypes harbored a minimal CD44+/CD24‑/low population, but the growth of SK‑BR‑3 was stimulated by the two post-operative fluids. WF exhibited a stronger effect on ALDH1 activity compared with RT‑WF. The stimulatory effect was dependent on the histological subtype of the cell line and the strongest dependence was observed in luminal subtypes characterized by low dehydrogenase activity in the control group. The present results enable a better understanding of the mechanism of recurrence and metastases following BC surgery. With respect to histological phenotype, its effect on tumor progression, either local or systemic, strongly suggests the requirement for further research and clinical validation.

Introduction

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women, and is a heterogeneous disease, which has complicated its treatment and study (1). Based on the expression of specific receptors, BC is clinically divided into estrogen receptor (ER)-positive BC (the most common and diverse group), progesterone receptor (PR)-positive BC and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2; also known as ERBB2)-positive BC, or in the absence of the three receptors, triple-negative BC (TNBC) (2).

Breast-conserving therapy (BCT) includes a wide local excision followed by adjuvant radiotherapy to the whole breast, and frequently, an additional boost to the tumor bed, including intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) as one of the more novel strategies (36). The rationale for local dose escalation originates in the fact that after BCT, up to 90% of (at least first) local recurrences in the breast occur in the same quadrant as the primary cancer (7,8). The largest evidence for boost IORT preceding whole breast irradiation exists for intraoperative electron radiotherapy (IOERT) with single doses of ~10 Gy. In any risk constellation, local recurrence rates are among the lowest reported thus far, as well as those of long-term follow-up analyses (9). Apart from the mere dose augmentation effect and the high topographical precision in delivery, immediate irradiation during surgery has been hypothesized to exhibit an effect on the tumor microenvironment, abrogating the proliferative cascade induced by surgical wound healing (1013). Published data have suggested that the wound healing process subsequent to surgery alters the area surrounding the original tumor and around the scar, and that the modified microenvironment is more favorable for the tumor to recur. Local recurrence after surgery is particularly common in tumors characterized by HER2 overexpression (14). It has been shown that wound fluids contain growth factors inducing the proliferation of HER2-positive BCs (15). Radiotherapy is not the only treatment that affects cell survival, surgery also has an impact on the tumor microenvironment. Belletti et al demonstrated the stimulatory effect of post-surgical drainage fluids on BC cells in fluids harvested from a group of patients after IORT treatment and from patients after breast-conserving surgery. It was shown that wound fluids from conservative surgery (without IORT) could stimulate the proliferation, migration and invasion of the BC cell lines, while fluids collected after IORT demonstrated different properties (16).

It has been proposed that cancer cells displaying the stem-like phenotype play a critical role in local recurrence, invasion and metastasis, as well as in radio- and chemoresistance (1721). Al-Hajj et al identified a population of cluster of differentiation (CD)44+/CD24−/low cells from human breast tumors, which are more tumorigenic than other cell populations (22). In vivo experiments have shown that CD44+/CD24−/low cells were able to generate tumors in NOD/SCID mice. Although a statistically significant association between the clinical behavior and the frequency of these cell populations was not observed, tumors with distant metastases exhibited a higher fraction of the CD44+/CD24−/low phenotype (23).

The presence of high aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) activity is also associated with stem cell properties, with resistance to chemotherapy and a worse prognosis (2426). Previous studies found that ALDH is involved in intracellular retinoic acid production correlated with metastasis, tumor grade, and HER2 and Ki-67 status (2628). Dysregulation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is sufficient for neoplastic transformation, and a previous study showed that constitutively active forms are able to promote malignant transformation in fibroblasts and tumor formation in mice (29). It has also been demonstrated that ALDH+ and ALDH+/CD44+/CD24 subpopulations of BC cells express higher levels of phosphorylated STAT3 (30). The pharmacological targeting on STAT3 can suppress ALDH+ and ALDH+/CD44+/CD24 cells in vitro and in vivo.

The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of surgical wound fluids from IOERT treatment (RT-WF) compared with wound fluids from conservative-breast surgery only (WF) on the CD44+/CD24−/low phenotype and ALDH1 activity in a range of different BC cell lines. The results obtained will enable a better understanding of the mechanism of recurrence and metastasis following BC surgery.

Materials and methods

Surgical wound fluids

Post-operative wound fluids were collected from 44 female patients, who underwent surgery for BC in Greater Poland Cancer Centre in Poznań, Poland. The mean age of the patients was 58 years and the age range was 38–76 years. Two groups were analyzed. In the first group, following resection of the tumor (quadrantectomy), the patients underwent IOERT with up to a dose of 10 Gy per tumor bed and surrounding tissues. In the second group, the patients did not receive IOERT. In the two groups, the patients left the ward on the second day after the surgery. The follow-up examination was scheduled for 7 days post-surgery in the Hospital Outpatient Clinic. The patients underwent ultrasonography and were assessed for the presence of fluid in the tumor bed. If fluid was found, it was collected for tests by means of percutaneous aspiration. Fluids collected from the intraoperative group were marked as RT-WF (22 samples), and fluids from the surgery alone group were marked as WF (22 samples). Fluids were centrifuged for 25 min at 1,100 × g in 40°C, sterile filtered and stored at −80°C. The present study was approved by the Bioethics Committee of Poznań University of Medical Sciences (Poznań, Poland).

Cell culture

A total of 8 human BC cell lines were used: MDA-MB-231 (ER/PR; HER2/Neu), MDA-MB-468 (ER/PR; HER2/Neu), BT-20 (ER/PR; HER2/Neu), BT-549 (ER/PR; HER2/Neu), defined as TNBC, SK-BR-3 (ER/PR; HER2/Neu+), BT-474 (ER/PR+; HER2/Neu+), MCF7 (ER/PR+; HER2/Neu) and T47D (ER/PR+; HER2/Neu). All cell lines were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC; Manassas, VA, USA) and cultured according to the ATCC instructions in a humidified atmosphere with 5% carbon dioxide at 37°C. The BC cell lines were chosen due to their distinct molecular profiles (31,32). At 24 h prior to the experiments, the cells were seeded in 6-cm Petri dishes and cultured in standard medium overnight. Next, culture medium was changed to fresh medium containing 10% RT-WF or 10% WF. The cells were incubated for 4 days. A total of 22 samples of RT-WF and WF, respectively, were analyzed. Control cells were cultured in standard medium under the same conditions.

Flow cytometry

After 4 days of incubation, the cells were washed twice with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS; Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA), detached using Accutase (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) and re-suspended in PBS supplemented with 1% bovine serum albumin (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.). Cell density was calculated using a Moxi Z automated cell counter (Orflo Technologies, Ketchum, ID, USA). In total, 1×106 cells were used for the analysis. Combinations of fluorochrome-conjugated mouse anti-human monoclonal antibodies CD44 (APC; dilution, 1:20; catalog no. 559942), CD24 (PE; dilution, 1:20; catalog no. 555428) and appropriate isotype controls were obtained from BD Biosciences (Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA). The cells were incubated with the antibodies at 4°C in the dark for 1 h. The labeled cells were analyzed using FACS Aria (BD Biosciences).

Aldefluor assay

The ALDEFLUOR kit (Stemcell Technologies, Grenoble, France) was used according to the manufacturer's protocol. Briefly, the cells were washed twice with PBS (Sigma-Aldrich) and detached using Accutase (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.). Detached cells were re-suspended in fresh medium and cell density was calculated using a Moxi Z automated cell counter (Orflo Technologies). In total, 2×105 cells were used for the analysis and incubated in ALDEFLUOR assay buffer containing ALDH substrate for 45 min at 37°C. For each sample, negative controls were incubated under the same conditions with diethylaminobenzaldehyde. The labeled cells were analyzed using FACS Aria (BD Biosciences).

Statistical analysis

Data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation. Differences between two sample means were assessed using the Student's t-test. P≤0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference. Statistical tests were performed using QuickCalcs, GraphPad online statistical calculator (GraphPad, La Jolla, CA, USA

Results

Cell selection

In total, 8 human BC cell lines were selected to be examined due to their histopathological and molecular profiles. Each cell line was characterized by different aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) activity and the expression of a CD44+/CD24−/low subpopulation, even in cells of the same cancer subtypes (Fig. 1). The basal/epithelial (MDA-MB-468 and BT-20) and HER2-overexpressing (HER2-OE; SK-BR-3 and BT-474) BC cell lines showed strong ALDH1 activity compared with the luminal (MCF7 and T47D) cell lines. Only the basal type (MDA-MB-231 and BT-549) expressed a high percentage of CD44-positive cells. All TNBC cell lines were characterized by a high proportion of CD44+/CD24−/low subpopulation cells compared with other cell lines.

Surgical wound fluids affect ALDH1 activity

ALDH1 activity was evaluated in the human BC cell lines using the ALDEFLUOR assay. Fig. 2 shows the percentage of the cell population with ALDH1 activity in cells incubated with 10% conditioned medium that were harvested after 4 days in standard conditions. In all cell lines, with the exception of the BT-549 cell line (WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.029), surgical wound fluids from both the conservative surgery and IORT procedure groups induced ALDH1 activity compared with the control group supplemented with 10% FBS. The MDA-MB-468 and MDA-MB-231 cell lines demonstrated virtually no difference in ALDH1 activity between the control group and the treated cells (MDA-MB-468: CTR vs. WF, P=0.207; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.671; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.418; MDA-MB231: CTR vs. WF, P=0.055; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.141; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.651). Notably, WF demonstrated a stronger stimulating effect compared with RT-WF in the luminal subtypes of cell lines that were characterized by low ALDH1 activity in the control group (MCF-7: CTR vs. WF, P=0.006; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.142; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.045).

Surgical wound fluids affect the CD44/CD24 phenotype

The surface expression of CD44 and CD24 was analyzed in the human BC cell lines using flow cytometry. Regarding specific molecular subtypes, the markers were differentially expressed. Human BC cell lines after 4 days of incubation in 10% wound fluid conditioned medium demonstrated an altered proportion of CD44+/CD24−/low cell populations (described as a BC stem cell marker). The results varied markedly between each cell line, even between the same histological subtypes (Fig. 3). The TNBC MDA-MB-231 cell line did not exhibit changes in the expression profile (CTR vs. WF, P=0.465; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.262; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.092). Notably, other TNBC cell lines, such as BT-549 and MDA-MB-468, demonstrated the stimulatory effect of WF and the inhibitory effect of RT-WF compared with the control group (BT-549: CTR vs. WF, P=0.017; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.021; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.007; MDA-MB-468: CTR vs. WF, P=0.001; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.159; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.017). These three cell lines were defined as exhibiting a basal-like phenotype and harbored more CD44+/CD24−/low than non-TNBC cells. The SK-BR-3 cell line was constituted of low levels of the CD44-positive cell population, however, unexpectedly, the two types of post-operative fluids each had a significant stimulating effect on the CD44+/CD24−/low phenotype (CTR vs. WF, P=0.005; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.001; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.074). The luminal MCF7 cell line was mainly constituted by CD24-positive cells, nevertheless, the small population of CD44+/CD24−/low cells decreased significantly due to incubation with WF and RT-WF (CTR vs. WF, P=0.018; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.006; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.680). BT-474 did not contain a detectable CSC population in any variant.

The BT-20 cell line is mainly constituted by cells with the CD44+/CD24+ non-invasive phenotype and is not altered by incubation with surgical wound fluid (data not shown). By contrast, the T47D cell line is shown to be enriched with a CD44/CD24+ cell population, which is considered to be unable to give rise to the invasive phenotype. The experiments were unable to identify how incubation with surgical wound fluid affected the CD44/CD24 phenotype in T47D, which had a high standard deviation and strong statistical insignificance (data not shown). Since these data are derived from different patients from the limited group, it was not possible to increase the research panel and try to redefine the associations between the cell line CD44/CD24 phenotype and the surgical wound fluids. For this reason, the BT549, BT-20 and T47D cell lines are not represented in certain cases, as the results were unreliable due to extreme results. These data indicate that each surgical wound fluid can affect the cell line biology individual.

Changes in all CD44 and CD24 expression variants

The impact of RT-WF and WF fluids on CD44 and CD24 (all expression variants) is presented in Fig. 4. In the basal-like cell lines, with the exception of the MDA-MB-231 cell line, RT-WF decreased the CD44+/CD24−/low population while stimulating the CD44+/CD24+ population, representing a non-invasive epithelial-like phenotype (CD44+/CD24−/low BT-549: CTR vs. WF, P= 0.017; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.021; and WF vs RT-WF, P=0.007; MDA-MB-468: CTR vs. WF, P=0.008; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.159; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.017; CD44+/CD24+ BT-549: CTR vs. WF, P=0.175; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.004; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.003; MDA-MB-468: CTR vs. WF, P=0.009; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.085; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.001). HER2-OE-positive cell lines and luminal lines consist of the highest percentage of the CD44/CD24+ population, which is decreased by WF. In the BT-474 cell lines, all surgical fluids stimulated a CD44-positive and CD24-postive population, whereas in the SK-BR-3 and MCF7 cell lines they stimulated a negative phenotype in these populations (BT-474 CD44+/CD24+: CTR vs. WF, P=0.003; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.007; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.707; SK-BR-3 CD44/CD24: CTR vs. WF, P=0.042; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.001; and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.008; MCF-7 CD44/CD24: CTR vs. WF, P=0.005; CTR vs. RT-WF, P=0.001, and WF vs. RT-WF, P=0.042). Luminal and HER2-OE BC cell lines were constituted of cells with low levels of the CD44-positive population.

Discussion

The present study demonstrated that post-operative fluids harvested from patients who underwent breast-conserving surgery alone and from patients who received IOERT affect the stem cell phenotype in human BC cell lines. It is well established that surgery modifies the microenvironment, and that primary tumor removal may stimulate or accelerate metastatic spread. This phenomenon is known as tumor cell dormancy (33) and is likely to be important in treatment failure. Metastatic disease usually develops within 5 years of primary tumor treatment and more than half of patients succumb due to it (34). The wound healing process is a typical consequence of surgery, and it is currently believed that accompanying inflammation may contribute to aggressiveness and treatment resistance (35). The dormancy theory explains that molecular events associated with healing play a pivotal role as a ‘start signal’ to proliferation and the stimulation of angiogenesis (34). It has been shown that post-surgery wound fluids taken from BC patients can stimulate proliferation, metastasis and invasion (15,16). The aforementioned results support the clinical observations and proves that surgery is a perturbing factor and a cause of treatment failure. Notably, the complete inhibition of proliferation and the delayed occurrence of metastases has been achieved in murine mammary studies using systemic treatment prior to or following surgery (36).

Inflammatory factors and changes in the microenvironment have been identified as modifying agents to tumor stem cells (37). CSCs exhibit the ability to self-renew, migrate and invade into surrounding tissues or distant organs, and are associated with radio- and chemoresistance. Due to these properties, CSCs have been proposed as attractive targets and a number of studies have been conducted to identify subpopulations of the cells responsible for treatment failure and tumor progression. Breast CSCs were first described by Al-Hajj et al (22) and identified as a CD44+/CD24−/low high tumorigenic population. In vivo experiments showed that CD44+/CD24−/low cells were able to generate tumors in NOD/SCID mice. Numerous other studies confirmed these results in BC (23,38,39) and various other human tumor types (40). Generally, tumorigenicity and the stemness phenotype of these putative cells have been demonstrated by in vitro clonogenicity and in vivo tumorigenicity. A paradoxical phenomenon of tumor stem cells in BC exists, as there is no statistically significant association in the clinical behavior and the frequency of these cell populations (23,36), however, tumors that develop distant metastases indeed exhibit a higher fraction of CD44+/CD24−/low phenotype cells (23,41).

In order to better understand the effect of surgical wound fluids on the putative stem cell population in BC, 8 different cell lines were examined in the present study. All models used in the study differed not only by the histological subtype, but also by the expression of the CD44 and CD24 subpopulation (Fig. 2). Basal-like cell lines expressed more CD44+/CD24−/low population cells as opposed to the luminal type, and according to literature data and clinical observations, these cells are associated with a worse prognosis (42). Belletti et al (16) observed changes in the proteomic profile between cells incubated in surgical fluids harvested from patients who underwent surgery alone and from those patients who received intraoperative radiotherapy. The fluids taken from the patients that received intraoperative radiotherapy showed reduced expression in several molecules linked to tumor growth and motility, including HGF and leptin, which can explain the different biological activities between the two groups of surgical fluids (16). It was therefore reasonable to hypothesize that surgical fluids can induce a putative stem cell population. Indeed, post-operative fluids affect the population, but those taken from patients treated using IORT (RT-WF) in the present study decreased the population of CD44+/CD24−/low cells in the basal and luminal groups. The strongest effect was observed in the BT-549 and MDA-MB-468 cell lines, whereas in HER-OE cell lines, identified as poorly equipped with CD44+/CD24−/low, the result was the opposite. In the SK-BR-3 and BT-474 cell lines, the two surgical fluids were each able to stimulate the putative stem population. No effect was observed in the MDA-MB-231 cell line. A decrease in the CD44+/CD24−/low population was compensated for by an increase in the CD44+/CD24+ population, which is considered to be not as tumorigenic (Fig. 4).

A study by Segatto et al largely explains how the surgery-wound response can promote a stem-like phenotype in BC cells via the STAT3 signaling pathway (37). A strong stimulation of the ability of mammosphere formation by wound fluid sera was observed in all examined cell lines. The presented results differed slightly. A dependence in the surgical fluid response according to the receptor expression in the cell line and the surgical fluid type used in the examination was observed (WF or RT-WF). Most likely, this effect is caused by the different times of fluid collection. In the present study, WF and RT-WF were collected at 7 days post-surgery by percutaneous aspiration, while in the aforementioned study (37), fluids were collected from drains at 24 h post-surgery. The difference in the time of collection is crucial in fluids, particularly in the panel of IORT-treated cell lines. Based on Belletti's results of the molecular analysis and the knowledge of surgery-induced inflammation (16), we believe that during the 1 week of the healing process, a pool of various molecules was accumulated that was responsible for the stronger effect on the putative stem phenotype.

While the subpopulation of cells with CD44+/CD24−/low expression has the highest invasiveness and metastatic potential in BC, more and more studies indicate that the CD44/CD24+ population is a better prognostic marker in BC (43). The tissue microarray and histopathological analysis of patients' tumor samples indicates that CD44/CD24+ tumors have the worst prognosis in early invasive BC (43), and the tumor group exhibiting the CD44+/CD24−/low phenotype is considered a favorable prognostic subgroup in BC. Notably, in the present study, in the HER-OE cell lines and the luminal MCF7 cell line, this population was decreased by surgical fluids (Fig. 4). Meyer et al demonstrated that CD24 expression is under dynamic regulation in vitro and in vivo, and that the population of CD44/CD24+ cells can interconvert into CD44+/CD24−/low cells and vice versa (44). This phenomenon can be explained as a consequence of loss of CD24 activity during tumor development or treatment.

ALDH activity is also associated with the putative stem cell phenotype. It was previously demonstrated that the expression of ALDH1 in breast tumors was a good predictor of a poor clinical outcome and this high activity was specific to the stemness phenotype (24). In turn, Zhong et al found that ALDH1 was not significantly associated with conventional clinical features such as tumor size or receptor expression, but was associated with breast tumor recurrence (45).

The present study assessed the impact of post-operative fluids on ALDH1 activity. A total of 8 cell lines were used with varied ALDH1 expression and activity that was comparable within the histological subtypes (Fig. 1A). to the best of our knowledge, the study presents the first examination of ALDH1 activity in BC affected by post-operative surgical fluids. Surgical fluids stimulated ALDH1 activity in all cell lines. However, RT-WF demonstrated a less stimulatory effect, which was most noticeable in the cell lines with a moderate ALDH1 level. Basal-like features are much more frequently associated with the incidence of metastasis than other subtypes. The present results showed that, as in the CD44/CD24 phenotype investigation, in this group of tumors, RT-WF inhibited the stimulation potential of fluids after surgery. Therefore, IORT may essentially contribute to treatment success.

The study did not observe that the examined putative breast CSC markers of a CD44+/CD24−/low phenotype and high ALDH1 activity result in the same response under post-operative surgical fluids, indicating that in vitro these markers do not correlate with the fluid response, and that behavior is an independent factor, subsidiary to the histopathological subtype. These results may be an explanation for the lower relapse rates in the TARGIT-A trial for patients treated with immediate IORT using 50-kV orthovoltage (46).

The present study supports the hypothesis that surgery is a perturbing factor and explains how surgical intervention can impact the critical CSC behavior. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study describing inhibitive mechanisms for IOERT. With respect to histological phenotype, the effect of the treatment on tumor progression, either local or systemic, strongly suggests a requirement for further research and clinical validation.

In summary, surgical wound fluids from the WF and RT-WF groups affected the putative stem cell phenotype, as determined by CD44+/CD24−/low and high ALDH1 activity. Following IOERT, a lower stimulation stem cell phenotype was observed in the RT-WF compared with the WF.

Acknowledgements

The present study was supported by the National Science Center, Kraków, Poland (grant no. UMO-2013/09/N/NZ4/02844). The authors would like to thank Professor Felix Sedlmayer from the University Clinic for Radiotherapy and Radio-Oncology (Salzburg, Austria) for providing editorial support and interactive communication.

Glossary

Abbreviations

Abbreviations:

BCT

breast-conserving therapy

IORT

intraoperative radiotherapy

IOERT

intraoperative electron radiotherapy

WF

wound fluids from surgery only

RT-WF

intraoperative radiotherapy wound fluids

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Zaleska K, Suchorska WM, Przybyła A and Murawa D: Effect of surgical wound fluids after intraoperative electron radiotherapy on the cancer stem cell phenotype in a panel of human breast cancer cell lines. Oncol Lett 12: 3707-3714, 2016
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Zaleska, K., Suchorska, W.M., Przybyła, A., & Murawa, D. (2016). Effect of surgical wound fluids after intraoperative electron radiotherapy on the cancer stem cell phenotype in a panel of human breast cancer cell lines. Oncology Letters, 12, 3707-3714. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.5167
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Zaleska, K., Suchorska, W. M., Przybyła, A., Murawa, D."Effect of surgical wound fluids after intraoperative electron radiotherapy on the cancer stem cell phenotype in a panel of human breast cancer cell lines". Oncology Letters 12.5 (2016): 3707-3714.
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Zaleska, K., Suchorska, W. M., Przybyła, A., Murawa, D."Effect of surgical wound fluids after intraoperative electron radiotherapy on the cancer stem cell phenotype in a panel of human breast cancer cell lines". Oncology Letters 12, no. 5 (2016): 3707-3714. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2016.5167