ArticleInternational journal of clinical and experimental pathology2014
Impact of polysomy 17 on HER2 testing of invasive breast cancer patients.
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- Evaluation ofCancers · 2023Article
- Immunohistochemistry and alternative FISH testing in breast cancer with HER2 equivocal amplification.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2018Article
- Prognostic impact of HER-2 Subclonal Amplification in breast cancer.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2017Article
- The Clinicopathologic and Prognostic Value of Altered Chromosome 17 Centromere Copy Number in HER2 Fish Equivocal Breast Carcinomas.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundCurrent American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists guidelines define HER2-positive tumors as those with >6 HER2 genes per nucleus or those with HER2/CEP17 (chromosome 17) ratio>2.2. These guidelines are potentially contradictory in tumors with polysomy of chromosome 17. The current study was performed to determine the impact of polysomy 17 on the interpretation of HER2 testing of invasive breast carcinomas.
methodsChromosome 17 copies and HER2 gene status were identified by fluorescent in situ hybridization in 384 cases with invasive breast cancer, and the corresponding HER2 expression was obtained by immunohistochemistry stain.
resultsThe average CEP17 copy number for the group was 2.1 (range, 1.0-12.4). Forty-eight cases (13.8%, 48/348) were identified as chromosome 17 polysomy with CEP 17 copy number≥3. Ninety-two (26.4%) cases had >6 copies of HER2 per nucleus, and 92 cases (26.4%) qualified as HER2 gene amplified using the HER2/CEP17 ratio (>2.2) guideline. Polysomy 17 showed poorly positive correlations with both HER2 gene copy number and HER2 overexpression (P<0.01, r=0.338 and 0.271, respectively). The distribution of clinicopathologic parameters of Polysomy 17 tumors was more similar to HER2 negative than HER2 positive tumors.
conclusionsPolysomy 17 is a crucial cause of equivocal HER2 testing results by FISH, depending on which criterion (ratio vs. absolute number) is used for interpretation. Polysomy 17 cannot be an independent predictive factor for HER2 gene amplification or protein overexpression.
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