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Xavier Sastre-Garau

Xavier Sastre-Garau

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D-Index
81
Citations
21338
World Ranking
16766
National Ranking
554

Overview

Xavier Sastre-Garau is affiliated with the Institute Curie in France and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, epidemiology, immunology, oncology, and cancer research.

The scientist's research covers multiple main topics, with particular emphasis on cancer genomics and diagnostics, cervical cancer and HPV research, molecular biology techniques and applications, cancer-related molecular pathways, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, DNA repair mechanisms, and studies on nonmelanoma skin cancer.

Among the research outputs, Xavier Sastre-Garau has coauthored several papers, including:

  • Tumor invasion in draining lymph nodes is associated with Treg accumulation in breast cancer patients, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A high-risk retinoblastoma subtype with stemness features, dedifferentiated cone states and neuronal/ganglion cell gene expression, 2021, Nature Communications
  • HPV ctDNA detection of high-risk HPV types during chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer, 2021, ESMO Open
  • CENP-A Subnuclear Localization Pattern as Marker Predicting Curability by Chemoradiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer Patients, 2021, Cancers
  • Impact of the new molecular classification of endometrial cancer: A French cohort study, 2022, Gynecologic Oncology

Xavier Sastre-Garau frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • Cancers
  • ESMO Open
  • PLoS Biology
  • Gynecologic Oncology

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their career, with frequent co-authors including Anne Vincent-Salomon, Odette Mariani, Didier Meseure, Nicolás André, and Jean-Philippe Morretton.

Best Publications

  • Frequent activating mutations of FGFR3 in human bladder and cervix carcinomas.

    Cappellen D;De Oliveira C;Ricol D;de Medina S

  • Comparative study of the National Cancer Institute and French Federation of Cancer Centers Sarcoma Group grading systems in a population of 410 adult patients with soft tissue sarcoma

    L Guillou;J M Coindre;F Bonichon;B B Nguyen

  • MDM2 and CDK4 immunostainings are useful adjuncts in diagnosing well-differentiated and dedifferentiated liposarcoma subtypes: a comparative analysis of 559 soft tissue neoplasms with genetic data

    Matthieu Bui Nguyen Binh;Xavier Sastre-Garau;Louis Guillou;Gonzague de Pinieux

  • Ploidy and Large-Scale Genomic Instability Consistently Identify Basal-like Breast Carcinomas with BRCA1/2 Inactivation

    Tatiana Popova;Elodie Manié;Guillaume Rieunier;Virginie Caux-Moncoutier

  • A New Model of Patient Tumor-Derived Breast Cancer Xenografts for Preclinical Assays

    Elisabetta Marangoni;Anne Vincent-Salomon;Nathalie Auger;Armelle Degeorges

  • miR-141 and miR-200a act on ovarian tumorigenesis by controlling oxidative stress response.

    Bogdan Mateescu;Bogdan Mateescu;Luciana Batista;Luciana Batista;Melissa Cardon;Melissa Cardon;Tina Gruosso;Tina Gruosso

  • Interleukin 17, a T-cell-derived cytokine, promotes tumorigenicity of human cervical tumors in nude mice.

    Eric Tartour;François Fossiez;Isabelle Joyeux;Annie Galinha

  • Characterization of resident and migratory dendritic cells in human lymph nodes

    Elodie Segura;Elodie Segura;Jenny Valladeau-Guilemond;Marie-Hélène Donnadieu;Marie-Hélène Donnadieu;Xavier Sastre-Garau

  • Oxidative stress promotes myofibroblast differentiation and tumour spreading.

    Aurore Toullec;Damien Gerald;Gilles Despouy;Brigitte Bourachot

  • Prognostic Factors in Localized Primary Synovial Sarcoma: A Multicenter Study of 128 Adult Patients

    Martine Trassard;Viviane Le Doussal;Kamel Hacène;Philippe Terrier

  • Germline BAP1 mutations predispose to renal cell carcinomas.

    Tatiana Popova;Lucie Hebert;Virginie Jacquemin;Sophie Gad

  • Merkel cell carcinoma of the skin: pathological and molecular evidence for a causative role of MCV in oncogenesis.

    Xavier Sastre-Garau;Martine Peter;Marie-Françoise Avril;Hélène Laude

  • Wide metastatic spreading in infiltrating lobular carcinoma of the breast

    S Ferlicot;A Vincent-Salomon;J Médioni;P Genin

  • Secretory breast carcinomas with ETV6-NTRK3 fusion gene belong to the basal-like carcinoma spectrum

    Marick Laé;Paul Fréneaux;Xavier Sastre-Garau;Olfa Chouchane

  • No significant predictive value of c-erbB-2 or p53 expression regarding sensitivity to primary chemotherapy or radiotherapy in breast cancer.

    Sylvie Rozan;Anne Vincent-Salomon;Brigitte Zafrani;Pierre Validire

  • Integration of papillomavirus DNA near myc genes in genital carcinomas and its consequences for proto-oncogene expression.

    J Couturier;X Sastre-Garau;S Schneider-Maunoury;A Labib

  • Identification of typical medullary breast carcinoma as a genomic sub-group of basal-like carcinomas, a heterogeneous new molecular entity.

    Anne Vincent-Salomon;Nadège Gruel;Carlo Lucchesi;Gaëtan MacGrogan

  • Activating mutations of the tyrosine kinase receptor FGFR3 are associated with benign skin tumors in mice and humans

    Armelle Logié;Claire Dunois-Lardé;Christophe Rosty;Olivier Levrel

  • KIT is highly expressed in adenoid cystic carcinoma of the breast, a basal-like carcinoma associated with a favorable outcome.

    Sandy Azoulay;Marick Laé;Paul Fréneaux;Solange Merle

  • Asf1b, the necessary Asf1 isoform for proliferation, is predictive of outcome in breast cancer

    Armelle Corpet;Armelle Corpet;Leanne De Koning;Leanne De Koning;Joern Toedling;Alexia Savignoni;Alexia Savignoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Vincent-Salomon
Anne Vincent-Salomon Institute Curie
Olivier Delattre
Olivier Delattre PSL University
Alain Fourquet
Alain Fourquet Institute Curie
Bernard Asselain
Bernard Asselain Institute Curie
Emmanuel Barillot
Emmanuel Barillot Institute Curie
Véronique Diéras
Véronique Diéras Institute Curie
Jean-Yves Pierga
Jean-Yves Pierga Institute Curie
Sergio Roman-Roman
Sergio Roman-Roman Institute Curie
Jean Paul Thiery
Jean Paul Thiery National University of Singapore

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