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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER
卷 36, 期 7, 页码 845-851出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(00)00013-7
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apoptosis; Bcl-2; breast cancer; mitosis; response; tamoxifen
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Despite knowledge of oestrogen receptor status, it is not always possible to predict which breast cancers will respond to tamoxifen. We have previously reported that decreased expression of Bcl-2 and/or Ki-S1 were associated with tumour response to neoadjuvant tamoxifen in 50 elderly women with oestrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer. In this study, we confirm that the expression of Bcl-2 and Ki-S1 are surrogates for the frequency of apoptosis and mitosis respectively, within these untreated breast cancers, with an inverse relationship between Bcl-2 expression and the apoptotic index (P < 0.05), and a positive relationship between Ki-S1 expression and the mitotic index (P < 0.01). However, after 3 months' tamoxifen treatment these relationships were no longer apparent. Moreover, amongst the 27 tumours in which Bcl-2 expression was reduced during the 3 months' therapy, there was a significant correlation between the response to therapy and the increase in apoptosis (P < 0.05), whereas in those tumours in which Bcl-2 did not fall with therapy, there was a significant correlation between response and the decrease in mitosis (P < 0.05). These data suggest there are at least two mechanisms for effective tamoxifen therapy: increased apoptosis as a consequence of reduced Bcl-2 expression, and decreased proliferation. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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