Comparison of prognostic values between combined immunohistochemical score of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, Ki-67 and the corresponding gene expression score in breast cancer
Comparison of prognostic values between combined immunohistochemical score of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, Ki-67 and the corresponding gene expression score in breast cancer
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10.1038/modpathol.2012.151
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发表时间:
2013-01-01
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7.5
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Iwase, Hirotaka
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作者:
Yamamoto-Ibusuki, Mutsuko;Yamamoto, Yutaka;Iwase, Hirotaka
In the clinical diagnosis of breast cancer, immunohistochemistry panels with estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PgR), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and Ki-67 are routinely used, and they have been proposed for the classification of breast tumors into distinct subtypes. Gene expression analysis with formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded material have also become widely available recently, but the prognostic values of corresponding gene panels compared with these four immunohistochemical panels had never tested. We independently evaluated the 5-year relapse risk-estimation scores using semiquantitative data of four immunohistochemical panels (Ku-IHC4 score) and compared these with the results of four-gene expression profiling of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded specimens (Ku-FFPE4 score) in a consecutive series of 235 primary invasive breast cancer patients. Ku-IHC4 score was revealed to be an independent predictor of recurrence other than Ku-FFPE4 score in a multivariate model analyzed by classical clinical parameters (Ku-IHC4 score vs Ku-FFPE4 score; chi(2): 14.2 vs 2.5, P: 0.0002 vs 0.11). When patients were trichotomized into high-, intermediate- and low-risk groups using the thresholds determined from the approximately calculated 5-year relapse rate, Kaplan-Meier analyses showed a significant difference among the three groups in Ku-IHC4 score (log-rank, P