“…BIA-ALCL cells possess a specific pattern of genetic alterations, mainly including JAK-STAT, DNMT3A, PD-L1 chromosomal copy number aberrations (CNAs), chromosome 20q loss, (CA9) overexpression, TP53 mutations (Wang et al, 2022), and HLA polymorphism (Tevis et al, 2019). Among these, the constitutive activation of JAK-STAT3 pathway (peculiar in T-cell activation in response to inflammatory stimuli) has recently been explored and identified as a potential key mediator in BIA-ALCL pathogenesis and may even provide a new therapeutic target (Blombery et al, 2016(Blombery et al, , 2018Di Napoli et al, 2018;Oishi et al, 2018;Laurent et al, 2020). The hypothesis is that in genetically susceptible patients, dysregulation of the JAK1/STAT3 pathway may occur, predisposing the emergence and proliferation of CD30+ monoclonal and ALK-negative cells in response to inflammatory/irritative stimuli caused by the implant (Laurent et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2022).…”