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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
卷 24, 期 23, 页码 3756-3762出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.04.5948
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Purpose To evaluate the predictive and prognostic value Of peripheral blood cytokeratin-19 (CK-19) mRNA-positive cells in axillary lymph node-negative breast cancer patients. Patients and Methods Peripheral blood was obtained from 167 node-negative breast cancer patients before the initiation of any systemic adjuvant therapy, and Was analyzed for the presence of CK-19 mRNA-positive cells using a real time polymerase Chain reaction assay. The association with known prognostic factors and the effect of CK-19 mRNA-positive cells on patients' prognosis was investigated. Results CK-19 mRNA-positive cells were detected in the blood of 36 (21.6%) of the 167 patients. There was no correlation between the detection of CK-19 mRNA-positive cells in the peripheral blood and the various known pathologic and clinical prognostic factors; only overexpression of HER2 receptor (score 2+/3+) on the primary tumor was associated with a higher incidence of CK-19 mRNA-positive cell detection (P = .033). Multivariate analysis revealed that detection of peripheral blood CK-19 mRNA-positive cells was associated with early clinical relapse (P < .00001) and disease-related death (P = .008). Conclusion Detection of peripheral-blood CK-19 mRNA-positive cells is an independent predictive and prognostic factor for reduced disease-free interval and overall survival, respectively, in node-negative breast cancer patients.
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