1. Abstract 706: Ribonucleotide reductase small subunit M2 is a potential prognostic biomarker in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2- positive and triple negative breast cancers
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Xutao Deng, Hanguang Hu, Zheng Liu, Huarong Chen, Charles Warden, Lun Zhou, Rui Bai, Yasheng Huang, Suzhan Zhang, Peiguo Chu, Shu Zheng, Xiyong Liu, Weiting Ge, Sofia Loera, Jiaping Peng, Hang Zhang, and Yun Yen
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Oncology ,Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pathology ,biology ,business.industry ,Proportional hazards model ,CD44 ,Hazard ratio ,Cancer ,medicine.disease ,Metastasis ,Breast cancer ,Internal medicine ,Cancer cell ,medicine ,biology.protein ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,business ,Triple-negative breast cancer - Abstract
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer and triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) are two subtypes with poor outcome of all breast carcinomas. However, among all the patients in these two subtypes some still yielded relatively better prognosis. Ribonucleotide reductase (RR) small subunits M2 was associated with cancer cell invasiveness and metastasis, which prognoses poor survival in many cancers. Here we investigated whether RRM2 could serve as a prognostic biomarker for breast cancers, especially HER2- positive and TNBC subgroups. One hundred seventy five assessable breast cancers (40 cases were HER2-positive or TNBC) were collected from affiliated hospital of Zhejiang University (ZJU set); and six published microarray data sets (total 1154 cases, 63 cases were identified as HER2- positive or TNBC) with pathoclinical and follow- up information were employed for validation. In the ZJU set, the protein level of RRM2 was determined by IHC. It was indicated that RRM2 was positively correlated with cell proliferative marker Ki-67 (trends P=0.018) and stem/progenitor cell marker CD44+/CD24-/low (P=0.044). Multivariate COX model revealed that RRM2 was an independent prognostic biomarker for both OS (Hazard Ratio, HR=2.79, 95%Cl 1.21-6.75) and PFS (Hazard Ratio, HR=1.82, 95%Cl 1.02-3.26) for all the breast cancers. Moreover, in HER2-positive or TNBC breast cancers, RRM2-high was significantly associated with poor survival (P=0.025). Consequently, none of the patients with RRM2-low died of breast cancer in HER2-positive or TNBC subgroups. Furthermore, above findings were validated in the published data sets. The mRNA level of RRM2 evaluated significantly in highly-invasive subtypes including Luminal B, HER2-positive and TNBC in comparison with Luminal A and unclassified subgroups (P Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2012 Mar 31-Apr 4; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2012;72(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 706. doi:1538-7445.AM2012-706
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- 2012
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