Podoplanin expression in cancer-associated fibroblasts predicts unfavorable prognosis in node-negative breast cancer patients with hormone receptor-positive/HER2 - negative subtype

Autor: Kanae Nosaka, Takashi Ohno, Taichi Kadonaga, Tomohiko Sakabe, Makoto Wakahara, Hiroshige Nakamura, Yuko Tanaka, Yoshimasa Suzuki, Yoshiteru Kidokoro, Yoshihisa Umekita
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan). 28(4)
ISSN: 1880-4233
Popis: Podoplanin expression in cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) has been proposed as an indicator for poor prognosis in patients with invasive breast carcinomas, but little is known about its clinical significance in node-negative breast cancer patients with hormone receptor (HR) + /HER2 − subtype, who are expected to have a favorable prognosis. Immunohistochemical analyses were performed on 169 resected specimens of node-negative invasive carcinoma of no special type with HR + /HER2 − subtype using antibodies for podoplanin. When more than 10% of CAFs showed immunoreactivity with podoplanin as strong as that of internal positive controls, the specimens were judged as podoplanin-positive. Podoplanin-positive status in CAFs was observed in 16.0% (27 of 169 cases) and it associated with high Ki67 labeling index (LI) (> 30%) (p = 0.03), higher stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (p
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