Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Patients With Stage III/IV (M0) Advanced Gastric Cancer, According to HER2 Status Assessed by Immunohistochemistry and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

作者：Seock‐Ah Im, Jin Won Kim, Jin-Soo Kim, Min A. Kim, Bruce W.M. Jordan, Marlene Pickl, Sae‐Won Han, Do‐Youn Oh, Hyuk Joon Lee, Tae-You Kim, Woo Ho Kim, Han‐Kwang Yang, Yung‐Jue Bang · 发表于：Diagnostic Molecular Pathology · 年份：2011 · DOI：10.1097/pdm.0b013e3181fc02b7 · 被引用次数：31 · 研究领域：Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes、Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment、Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies

Despite recent advances in chemotherapy, the prognosis for patients with advanced gastric cancer (GC) or gastroesophageal junction cancer remains poor. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is a novel target for biologic therapy in metastatic GC. We analyzed the association between HER2 overexpression and the clinicopathologic characteristics of advanced GC. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor samples were collected from patients with stage III or to IV (M(0)) GC who subsequently underwent curative surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil and cisplatin. All the samples were analyzed for HER2 status by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and fluorescence in situ hybridization. Of 142 samples analyzed, 7.1% scored IHC 2+ and 8.6% scored IHC 3+, whereas 9.3% were HER2-amplified. Of HER2-amplified cases, 76.9% (10/13) scored IHC 3+, showing the correlation between HER2 amplification and overexpression (P=0.01). HER2 IHC 3+ cases were more common in the intestinal-type tumors compared with diffuse-type tumors (16.7% vs. 5.1%, respectively; P=0.049), and a nonsignificant trend was observed using fluorescence in situ hybridization (14.3% vs. 9.2%, respectively; P=0.399). HER2 gene amplification was more frequent in stage IV (M(0)) than stage III disease (15.4% vs. 4.0%, respectively; P=0.037). Interestingly, HER2-amplified disease was more common than nonamplified disease in patients with nodal stage 3 tumors (76.9% vs. 38.6%, respectively; P=0.009); a simi...