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- Title
Karyotypic aberrations of chromosomes 16 and 17 are related to survival in patients with breast cancer.
- Authors
Hislop, R. G.; Pratt, N.; Stocks, S. C.; Steel, C. M.; Sales, M.; Goudie, D.; Robertson, A.; Thompson, A. M.
- Abstract
Background: Breast cancer has a high incidence and associated mortality rate, yet little is known of the sequence of genetic events that underlie the clinical course. Methods: The study was a comparative genomic hybridization analysis of 40 primary breast cancers with survival data at a mean of 8·4 years. Results: The mean number of aberrations was 9·0, with a mean of 5·5 gains and 3·5 deletions per tumour. The most common aberrations were: gain of 1q (27 of 40), 8q (19 of 40) and 17q (13 of 40), and deletion of 17p (12 of 40) and 8p (11 of 40). These results are consistent with a distinctive pattern of large-scale (karyotypic) genetic change in primary breast cancer. Conclusion: The novel findings of this study were that only women who were disease-free had loss of 16q (E-cadherin) in association with a gain of 16p, and 17p13 (p53 ) loss combined with 17q12 (HER2 ) amplification was found only in the cancers of women who developed recurrent disease. The karyotypic changes seen in primary breast cancer seem to be associated with outcome and point to the underlying genetic events.
- Subjects
KARYOTYPES; CHROMOSOME abnormalities; BREAST cancer
- Publication
British Journal of Surgery, 2002, Vol 89, Issue 12, p1581
- ISSN
0007-1323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2168.2002.02270.x