PMID: 9166508Mar 1, 1996Paper

The accumulation of multiple genetic abnormalities in individual tumor cells in human breast cancers: clinical prognostic implications

The Cancer Journal From Scientific American
S E ShackneyR J Hartsock

Abstract

Human solid tumors undergo multiple genetic evolutionary changes as they evolve from the normal state to advanced stages of malignancy. This study characterizes the degree of advancement of primary human breast cancers in their genetic evolutionary pathways, and determines if this is of clinical significance. Correlated cell-by-cell measurements of cell DNA content, HER-2/neu protein content per cell, and H-ras protein content per cell were obtained by means of multiparameter flow cytometry on primary tumors from 95 patients with clinically localized breast cancer. Laboratory findings were correlated with subsequent clinical course in 91 of these patients. Multiple genetic abnormalities were found to accumulate in individual cells in primary human breast cancers. Almost all tumors contained subsets of cells with one, two, or three abnormalities per cell in various combinations. After a median follow-up time of 32 months, 11 of 13 patients with early recurrence had primary tumors in which more than 5% of cells were hypertetraploid, overexpressed HER-2/neu protein, and overexpressed H-ras protein (triple-positive cells). The duration of disease-free survival among patients with primary tumors that contained triple-positive cells ...Continue Reading

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