Breast cancer survival and immunohistochemical similarities between primary and metastatic sites, as a surrogate marker for the cancer self-seeding (CROSBI ID 184779)
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Kurbel, Sven ; Dmitrović, Branko ; Tomaš, Ilijan ; Kristek, Jozo ; Božac, Mario
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Breast cancer survival and immunohistochemical similarities between primary and metastatic sites, as a surrogate marker for the cancer self-seeding
We have tested 6 immunohistochemical (IHC) parameters (ER, PgR, Ki-67, bcl-2, p53 and cathepsin D) on a group of 60 patients with ductal invasive breast cancer, in both primary tumors and their axillary lymph node metastasis and determined whether there were statistically significant differences between the 2 sites. The data collected on IHC features of breast cancers and their axillary metastasis were compared with the Wilcoxon matched-pairs test and resulted in 1 p-value for each patient. The multivariate Cox proportional hazard model was applied on the overall survival data of our 60 breast cancer patients to test the significance of the listed 6 IHC features found in primary tumors and in positive lymph nodes. Besides, the patients were divided in 3 subgroups according to the distribution of their IHC similarity and a Kaplan-Meier analysis was performed to compare these groups. Our results suggest that self-seeding is detectable by the statistical comparison of the IHC features in 2 tumor sites. Two things seem important in all this: in our patients IHC similarity was a continuous variable and was related to survival.
breast cancer survival; cancer self-seeding; immunohistochemical (IHC) parameters
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28
2012.
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0393-6155
1724-6008
10.5301/JBM.2012.9313