Journal: Cancers
Article Title: HER2 mRNA Levels, Estrogen Receptor Activity and Susceptibility to Trastuzumab in Primary Breast Cancer
doi: 10.3390/cancers14225650
Figure Lengend Snippet: Correlation between E2 levels and tumor characteristics in BC patients. ( a , b ) Bar plot showing HALLMARK pathways significantly (FDR < 15%) positively (red bars) or negatively (green bars) correlated with E2 (pg/mL quantified in plasma of patients at surgery) in 10 postmenopausal HER2-positive BC patients of the GHEA cohort ( a ) and in the ER-positive subgroup (n = 5, b ) as evaluated by GSEA. FDR: false discovery rate. ( c ) Correlation of E2 with the expression of known ER-regulated genes in the same cohort analyzed in a. Pearson’s r is color-coded, and its significance is shown: # p < 0.1, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01. ( d , e ) Kaplan-Meier analysis of postmenopausal patients with HER2-positive BC treated with adjuvant trastuzumab classified according to circulating E2 levels in the entire (E2 high n = 20, E2 low: n = 20, d ) and ER-positive (E2 high n = 10, E2 low: n = 13, e ) cohorts. The E2 median value in the entire cohort was used as a cutoff to define the high- and low-level groups. p values by log-rank test.
Article Snippet: The status of HER2/neu was investigated utilizing a commercial probe PathVision HER2/neu DNA probe kit (Vysis, Abbot Molecular, Des Plaines, IL, USA) on metaphase spreads obtained from BC cell lines using standard cytogenetic methodologies [ ].
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