Research Paper Volume 11, Issue 22 pp 10052—10060
Late stage gastric cancer patients with extra gained HER2 positivity by dual block assessment may not show compromised efficacy to trastuzumab treatment
- 1 Department of Pathology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- 2 Department of Oncology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Received: May 19, 2019 Accepted: October 28, 2019 Published: November 17, 2019
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102415How to Cite
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Abstract
Dual block HER2 assessment can effectively increase the HER2 positive rate in resected specimens of gastric cancer (GC). The aim of this study is to explore whether GC patients with extra gained HER2 positivity by dual block assessment can benefit from trastuzumab therapy. Twenty-eight GC patients receiving gastrectomy prior to trastuzumab treatment were retrospectively analyzed. All the cases routinely accepted dual block HER2 assessment. The cases were divided into 2 cohorts based on HER2 status: cohort A with concordant HER2 results and cohort B with discordant HER2 results between the two blocks (cases with extra gained HER2 positivity). Response rate (RR), progress free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were compared between the two cohorts. The results showed that no significant differences were found between the two cohorts in main clinicopathologic characteristics. No statistical difference was found in response rate (47.6% vs 57.1%) (P=1.0), either. The two cohorts did not demonstrate statistical differences in the PFS (10.5 months (95%CI 6.4-14.6) vs 8.0 months (95%CI 3.2-12.8), P=0.686) and the OS (23.3 months (95%CI 12.1-34.5) vs 20.0 months (95%CI 10.1-29.9), P=0.776). In conclusion, our study suggests that patients with extra gained HER2 positivity may not show compromised efficacy to trastuzumab treatment.
Abbreviations
GC: Gastric cancer; HER2: human epidermal growth receptor 2; IHC: immunohistochemistry; FISH: fluorescence in situ hybridization; PFS: progression free survival; OS: overall survival; RR: response rate; CR: complete response; PR: partial response; SD: stable disease; PD: progressive disease.