Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (아시아태평양암예방학회)
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Overall Survival and Clinicopathological Characteristics of Patients with Breast Cancer in Relation to the Expression Pattern of HER-2, IL-6, TNF-α and TGF-β1

  • Tripsianis, Gregory (Laboratory of Medical Statistics, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace) ;
  • Papadopoulou, Evropi (Laboratory of Biochemistry, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace) ;
  • Romanidis, Konstantinos (Second Department of Surgery, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace) ;
  • Katotomichelakis, Michael (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace) ;
  • Anagnostopoulos, Kostas (Laboratory of Biochemistry, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace) ;
  • Kontomanolis, Emmanuel (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace) ;
  • Botaitis, Sotirios (Second Department of Surgery, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace) ;
  • Tentes, Ioannis (Laboratory of Biochemistry, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace) ;
  • Kortsaris, Alexandros (Laboratory of Biochemistry, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace)
  • Published : 2013.11.30
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Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the prognostic significance of co-expression patterna of HER-2, IL-6, TNF-a and TGF-${\beta}1$ in breast cancer, by correlating the number of markers with positive expression with clinicopathological characteristics indicative of tumor progression and overall survival. One hundred thirty consecutive patients with primary breast cancer were prospectively included and evaluated. Serum concentrations of the above markers were measured by ELISA. Median split was used to subdivide patients with marker positive or negative expression. The presence of ${\geq}3$ positive markers was independently associated with extended lymph node (>3) involvement (aOR, 11.94, p=0.001) and lymphovascular invasion (aOR, 12.04, p=0.018), increasing the prognostic significance of each marker considered separately. Additional prognostic information regarding survival was also provided; as the number of positive markers increased, a gradually reduction of survival time was observed. In addition, patients with 4 positive markers had significantly shorter survival (25 vs 39 months, p=0.006) and a more than 4 fold increased risk of death (aHR, 4.35, p=0.003) compared to patients with 3 positive markers. Our findings suggest that the coexpression pattern of these four markers could be used clinically as a useful marker for tumor extension and outcome of breast cancer.

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