Close relation of large cell carcinoma to adenocarcinoma by hierarchical cluster analysis: implications for histologic typing of lung cancer on biopsies

Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology : AIMM
Stephan H Hammer, Friedrich Prall

Abstract

Determining histologic types of lung cancer on biopsies can be difficult. This study addresses the role of immunohistochemistry in histologic typing, using a tissue microarray (TMA) as "model biopsies," and presents a classification generated by an unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis. A TMA was made from resection specimens of a consecutive series of 165 lung tumors. In a "tissue-spot review" with hematoxylin and eosin sections all the large cell carcinomas (N=22) were assigned to the noncommittal class of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as were an additional 37 tumors of defined histologic types. Adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas included with these NSCLC could be diagnosed by immunohistochemistry with antibodies against TTF-1, Napsin A, cytokeratin (CK)7, p40, p63, and CK5/6 with moderate to good sensitivities and specificities. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering was done with these data and additional high-molecular-weight cytokeratins, CD56, synaptophysin, and chromogranin immunohistochemistry. This delineated separate clusters for adenocarcinomas, large cell carcinomas, neuroendocrine tumors, and squamous cell carcinomas. Notably, adenocarcinoma and large cell carcinoma clusters were closely related...Continue Reading

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