ArticleJournal of gynecologic oncology2019
Overexpression of HER2/HER3 and clinical feature of ovarian cancer.
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- Preclinical evaluation of a novel tetrazine probe within a pretargeted delivery system for theranostics in HER2-positive tumor-bearing mice models.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2026Article
- The multifaceted roles of receptor tyrosine pseudokinases in cellular signalling.Biochemical Society transactions · 2026Review
- Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) in HER2-expressing gynecological malignancies: Clinical evidence, safety profile, and future directions.Gynecologic oncology reports · 2026Review
- Targeting dormant cancer cells: ferroptosis as a precision therapeutic strategy.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2026Review
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- HER3: Unmasking a twist in the tale of a previously unsuccessful therapeutic pursuit targeting a key cancer survival pathway.Genes & diseases · 2025Review
- Emerging importance of HER3 in tumorigenesis and cancer therapy.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2025Review
- Human epidermal growth factor receptor 3 expression in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer: a potential target for ovarian mucinous and clear cell carcinoma.International journal of clinical oncology · 2025Article
- Trastuzumab-Mediated Antibody-Dependent Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity (ADCC) Enhances Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity in HER2-Overexpressing Ovarian Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
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- Human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 expression and subsequent dynamic changes in patients with ovarian cancer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- HER2-targeted therapies in cancer: a systematic review.Biomarker research · 2024Review
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- Targeting receptor tyrosine kinases in ovarian cancer: Genomic dysregulation, clinical evaluation of inhibitors, and potential for combinatorial therapies.Molecular therapy oncolytics · 2023Review
- CTC-5: A novel digital pathology approach to characterise circulating tumour cell biodiversity.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Ado-tratuzumab emtansine beyond breast cancer: therapeutic role of targeting other HER2-positive cancers.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectivesHuman epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) and 3 (HER3) belong to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family of transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinases. In this study, we assessed HER2/HER3 expression levels in specimens of epithelial ovarian cancer and determined their correlation with clinical features of ovarian cancer.
methodsTissue microarrays (TMAs) were prepared from paraffin blocks of 105 ovarian tumour samples. HER2, HER3, PI3K, Akt, p-Akt, mTOR, p-mTOR, S6, and p-S6 expression levels were investigated using immunohistochemistry (IHC).
resultsHER2 positivity was 3.8% by IHC and 5.7% by ISH, whereas that of HER3 was 12.4% and 8.6%, respectively. HER2 status by either IHC or ISH was not related to PFS (p=0.128, 0.168, respectively) and OS (p=0.245, 0.164, respectively). However, the HER3 status determined using fluorescence ISH was associated with poor PFS (p=0.035 on log rank test), which was a significant risk factor even after adjusting other possible risk factors in multivariate analysis (hazard ratio=2.377 [1.18-7.49], p=0.021). Expressions of Akt, p-mTOR, and S6 were also related with poor progression (p=0.008, 0.049, 0.014, respectively).
conclusionHER3 is possibly an independent marker for poor prognosis in individuals with ovarian cancer, as the HER3 signalling pathway is distinct from that of HER2. The possibility of targeted therapy for patients with
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