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BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT
卷 106, 期 1, 页码 39-47出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-006-9471-x
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breast cancer; insulin; insulin receptor; insulin-like growth factor receptor; prognostic markers
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Fasting insulin is related to outcome in early breast cancer. We evaluated the expression of insulin receptor (IR) and its prognostic significance in patients with early stage breast cancer. Tumors from 191 patients with T1-3, N0-1, M0 breast cancer who were enrolled at a single center of a multicenter cohort study were used to construct microarrays with subsequent immunohistochemical evaluation of IR, IGF-IR, ER, PgR and HER2/neu. Correlation of biomarker expression with traditional prognostic factors, serum biochemistry (notably insulin) and clinical outcome was assessed. IR was strongly positive (Allred score = 8) in 54% of tumors. High IR expression significantly correlated with favorable prognostic markers (low tumor grade, lymph node negativity and progesterone receptor positivity) but not with fasting levels of circulating insulin. At a median follow-up of 9.1 years, high vs. low IR expression (an Allred score of 8 vs. 0-7) was associated with statistically significant improved distant disease-free survival (multivariate hazard ratio (HR) = 0.4; P = 0.027) and overall survival (multivariate HR = 0.26; P = 0.005). IR is highly expressed in the majority of early stage breast cancers but this expression is not clearly down-regulated in the presence of high insulin levels. Furthermore, high expression of IR is independently and significantly associated with more favorable clinical outcomes. Follow-up intervention research is recommended.
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