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LUNG CANCER
Volume 104, Issue -, Pages 98-105Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.12.017
Keywords
Malignant pleural mesothelioma; MTAP; BAP1; Immunohistochemistry; 9p21 FISH; Diagnosis
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- Research Center for Advanced Molecular Medicine, Fukuoka University
- Izumo City Supporting Cancer Research Project (ICSCRP)
- Ministry of the Environment
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K08370] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Objectives: Differentiating malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) from reactive mesothelial hyperplasia (RMH) is still challenging. Detection of homozygous deletion (HD) of 9p21 region including p16(INK4A) (p16) by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and immunohistochemical detection of loss of BRCA1 associated protein 1 (BAP1), are reliable markers for MPM diagnosis. However, not all laboratories are equipped to perform 9p21 FISH; immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a more common and feasible technique. Thus, we sought to develop a IHC-based method that could predict the deletion of p16 in MPM in concordance with 9p21 FISH. Materials and methods: We examined the expression of the 9p21.3-related proteins (p14, p15, p16, and methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP)) and BAP1 using IHC in 51 MPM and 25 RMH cases, and assessed their correlation with HD of p16 detected by FISH. The diagnostic usefulness of IHC of the 9p21.3-related proteins and BAP1 and their combinations was assessed using the cut-off values set by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. Results: Among the 9p21.3-related proteins, MTAP IHC findings showed best concordance with 9p21 FISH results (kappa coefficient of 0.69) and a specificity of 100%. We also examined the combinations of MTAP IHC with the other products. The loss of p16 and MTAP had better concordance (kappa coefficient of 0.71), although lower specificity (85%). For differentiating MPM from RMH, only MTAP showed 100% specificity among the 9p21.3-related proteins, as did BAP1 IHC and 9p21 FISH. Among BAP1 combinations, only that of BAP1 with MTAP showed 100% specificity. Its sensitivity was 76.5%, which was lower than BAP1 IHC and 9p21 FISH combination (84.3%), but higher than BAP1 IHC alone (60.8%) or 9p21 FISH alone (60.8%). Conclusions: A combination of MTAP or BAP1 loss detected by IHC can likely detect MPM with good sensitivity and 100% specificity, and serve as useful ancillary IHC for discriminating MPM from RMH. i3/4 (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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