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Prognosis of early beast cancer is heterogeneous. Today, no histoclinical or biological factor predictive for clinical outcome after adjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy (CT) has been validated and introduced in routine use. Using DNA microarrays, we searched for a gene expression signature associated with metastatic relapse after adjuvant anthracycline-based CT without taxane. We profiled a multicentric series of 595 breast cancers including 498 treated with such adjuvant CT. The identification of the prognostic signature was done using a metagene-based supervised approach in a learning set of 323 patients. The signature was then tested on an independent validation set comprising 175 similarly treated patients, 128 of them from the PACS01 prospective clinical trial. We identified a 3-metagene predictor of metastatic relapse in the learning set, and confirmed its independent prognostic impact in the validation set. In multivariate analysis, the predictor outperformed the individual current prognostic factors, as well as the Nottingham Prognostic Index-based classifier, both in the learning and the validation sets, and added independent prognostic information. Among the patients treated with adjuvant anthracycline-based CT, with a median follow-up of 68 months, the 5-year metastasis-free survival was 82% in the "good-prognosis" group and 56% in the "poor-prognosis" group. Our predictor refines the prediction of metastasis-free survival after adjuvant anthracycline-based CT and might help tailoring adjuvant CT regimens.
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Antraciclinas/uso terapêutico , Antineoplásicos/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias da Mama/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Adulto , Idoso , Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Quimioterapia Adjuvante , Análise por Conglomerados , Feminino , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Metástase Neoplásica/genética , Estadiamento de Neoplasias , Prognóstico , Análise de Sobrevida , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
ERBB2 is a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor encoded by a gene located in chromosome region 17q12. Overexpression of ERBB2, generally by way of gene amplification, plays a role in mammary oncogenesis. This alteration can be overcome by use of the humanized monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin). Accurate determination of ERBB2 status is required for appropriate use of this targeted therapy and is currently analysed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) on tissue sections and/or fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) on interphase chromosomes. We have studied the gene expression profiles of a series of 213 breast tumours and 16 breast cancer cell lines with known ERBB2 status, using Ipsogen's DiscoveryChip microarrays with approximately 9000 cDNAs. We have identified 36 genes and expressed sequence tags that were differentially expressed in tumours and in cell lines with and without ERBB2 protein overexpression. This ERBB2-specific gene expression signature (GES) contained 29 overexpressed genes including the ERBB2 gene itself, five genes located in its immediate vicinity on 17q12, non-17q genes such as GATA4 and eight downregulated genes including oestrogen receptor alpha (ER). Some correlations were validated at the protein level using IHC on tissue microarrays. The GES was able to distinguish ERBB2-negative and -positive cancer samples, as well as FISH-negative and FISH-positive ERBB2 2+ IHC samples.
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Antineoplásicos/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Genes erbB-2 , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Anticorpos Monoclonais/uso terapêutico , Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados , Neoplasias da Mama/classificação , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Mapeamento Cromossômico , Cromossomos Humanos Par 17 , Regulação para Baixo , Etiquetas de Sequências Expressas , Feminino , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , Hibridização in Situ Fluorescente , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Técnicas de Amplificação de Ácido Nucleico , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Sensibilidade e Especificidade , TrastuzumabRESUMO
We used a combination of DNA-microarray and tissue-microarray (TMA) analyses to identify markers that could be routinely used to predict the outcome of diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma (DLCL) patients. Gene expression profiling was performed using DNA-microarrays on 52 tumour biopsy samples [31 DLCL and 21 follicular lymphomas (FL)] from 48 patients (28 DLCL and 20 FL). T-cell leukemia/lymphoma-1A (TCL1A) mRNA overexpression was correlated with relapse in DLCL patients. TMA analysis was applied on a distinct series of 36 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded DLCL samples and showed that TCL1A immunoexpression was correlated with either higher relapse (p=0.02) or lower 5-year overall survival (p=0.009) rates. Moreover, the prognostic value of TCL1A was independent from IPI in our series. Our data suggest that TCL1A immunodetection is an independent marker of adverse outcome that could be used in routine settings for the management of DLCL patients.