Estrogen receptor beta (ER beta) level but not its ER beta cx variant helps to predict tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer

Clinical Cancer Research : an Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
Majida Esslimani-SahlaHenri Rochefort

Abstract

The antiestrogen tamoxifen, a major endocrine therapy of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer, is nevertheless inefficient in 30 to 40% of cases for unknown reasons. We retrospectively studied 50 ER-positive primary breast carcinomas. All of the patients had received tamoxifen as the only adjuvant therapy. They were divided into two groups depending on whether they relapsed within 5 years (16 tamoxifen-resistant cases) or did not relapse within 5 years (34 tamoxifen-sensitive cases). The expression of total ER beta protein, and of ER beta cx protein, was estimated anonymously in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor sections, by using specific antibodies and quantifiying nuclear immunostaining with a computer image analyzer. All of the tumors were found to be HER-2/neu-negative by immunohistochemistry. Univariate analysis showed that Scarff-Bloom-Richardsson grade modified by Elston (SBR grade; P < 0.001), tumor size (P = 0.042), and MIB-1 proliferation index (P = 0.02) were significantly higher in tamoxifen-resistant tumors. A low level of total ER beta, whether in percentage of positive cells or in quantitative immunocytochemical (QIC) score, was also associated with tamoxifen resistance (P = 0.004). ER beta cx exp...Continue Reading

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