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HER2/neu (ERBB2) expression and gene amplification correlates with better survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma

  • Background: HER2 (ERBB2 or HER2/neu) is a tyrosine-kinase increasing cell proliferation. Overexpression/amplification of HER2 is correlated with worse prognosis in solid malignancies. Consequently, HER2 targeting is established in breast and upper gastrointestinal tract cancer. There are conflicting data concerning the impact of HER2 overexpression on esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), as most studies do not differ between cancers of the esophagus/gastroesophageal junction and the stomach. The aim of this study was to analyze the expression/amplification of HER2 in EAC in correlation to clinicopathological data to verify its prognostic impact. Methods: We analyzed 428 EAC patients that underwent transthoracic thoraco-abdominal esophagectomy between 1997 and 2014. We performed HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) according to the guidelines and fluorescence-in-situ-hybridization (FISH) for IHC score2+, using tissue micro arrays (TMA) with up to eight biopsies from the surface and infiltration area of a single tumor for evaluating HER2-heterogeneity and single-spot TMA. The HER2-status was correlated with clinicopathological data. Results: HER2-positivity was found in up to 14.9% in our cohort (IHC score 3+ or IHC score 2+ with gene amplification) and demonstrated a significantly better overall survival (OS) in correlation to HER2-negative tumors (median OS 70.1 vs. 24.6 months, p = 0.006). HER2-overexpression was more frequently seen in lower tumor stages (pT1/pT2, p = 0.038), in the absence of lymphatic metastases (pN0/pN+, p = 0.020), and was significantly associated with better histological grading (G1/G2) (p = 0.041). Conclusion: We demonstrated a positive prognostic impact of HER2 overexpression in a large cohort of EAC, contrary to other solid malignancies including gastric cancer and breast cancer, but consistent to the results of a large study on EAC from 2012.

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Author:Patrick Sven Plum, Florian Gebauer, Max Krämer, Hakan Alakus, Felix Berlth, Seung-Hun Chon, Lars Schiffmann, Thomas Zander, Reinhard BüttnerORCiDGND, Arnulf H. Hölscher, Christiane BrunsGND, Alexander QuaasORCiDGND, Heike Löser
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-502459
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-5242-4
ISSN:1471-2407
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30621632
Parent Title (English):BMC cancer
Publisher:BioMed Central
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2019
Date of first Publication:2019/01/08
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2019/05/13
Tag:Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC); Fluorescence-in-situ-hybridization (FISH); HER2/neu (ERBB2); Immunohistochemistry; Prognosis; Tissue microarray (TMA)
Volume:19
Issue:1, Art. 38
Page Number:9
First Page:1
Last Page:9
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Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
HeBIS-PPN:450823555
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0