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Date publication
août 2005
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr GRAESSLIN Olivier
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Pr POLETTE Myriam
Tous les auteurs :
Sartelet H, Lagonotte E, Lorenzato M, Duval I, Lechki C, Rigaud C, Cucherousset J, Durlach A, Graesslin O, Abboud P, Doco-Fenzy M, Quereux C, Costa B, Polette M, Munck JN, Birembaut P
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Résumé
BACKGROUND: HER-2 amplification is an important prognostic biomarker and treatment determinant in breast carcinoma. AIMS: To correlate immunocytochemical (ICC) expression of HER-2 and gene amplification determined by chromogenic in situ hybridisation (CISH) using liquid based cytology (LBC) with immunohistochemistry (IHC) and CISH using histological samples of the same breast carcinomas. METHODS: Frozen sections and cytobrushings of 103 breast carcinomas were analysed. Four techniques were performed on each tumour: two on LBC samples (ICC, and CISH, both graded as positive, indeterminate, or negative) and two on histological samples (IHC and CISH). Two cell lines (MCF-7, negative; BT 474, positive) were used as controls for cytological analysis. A complementary fluorescence in situ hybridisation technique was carried out in histological samples with low amplification (4-10 dots/nucleus). RESULTS: Interobserver agreement for the four techniques calculated by the kappa coefficient indicated a substantial agreement. Nine cases failed in cytology because of poor cellularity. Among 94 cases, 19 were amplified; 73, 12, and 9 tumours were scored 0 or 1+, 2+, and 3+, respectively by IHC and 75, 13, and 6, respectively, by ICC. CISH found no amplification in 72 tumours. Correlations between the IHC and CISH results in the histological and cytological samples were always significant. CONCLUSIONS: Her-2 status could be determined in LBC samples and correlated well with reference histological methods using in situ hybridisation. ICC was less reliable because of the presence of the cytoplasmic membrane. However, these results should be confirmed by a large multicentre study.
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J Clin Pathol. 2005 Aug;58(8):864-71.
