Lymphovascular Invasion and HER2/neu Amplification as Predictive Factors for Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in Early Breast Cancer Patients.
10.4048/jbc.2010.13.3.250
- Author:
Geumhee GWAK
1
;
Kyeongmee PARK
;
Eunah SHIN
;
Sehwan HAN
;
Ji Young KIM
;
Hongyong KIM
;
Young Duk KIM
;
Hong Ju KIM
;
Ki Whan KIM
;
Byung Noe BAE
;
Keun Ho YANG
;
Sung Jin PARK
;
Seung Woo LIM
Author Information
1. Department of Surgery, Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital, Seoul, Korea. hanse@paik.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Breast neoplasms;
HER2/neu;
Lymphovascular invasion
- MeSH:
Breast;
Breast Neoplasms;
Estrogens;
Humans;
Incidence;
Lymph Nodes;
Medical Records;
Multivariate Analysis;
Neoplasm Metastasis;
Receptors, Progesterone
- From:Journal of Breast Cancer
2010;13(3):250-256
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: Axillary lymph node metastasis (ALNM) can occur even in breast cancer smaller than 2 cm in size. This study was performed to investigate the clinicopathologic factors that affect node metastasis in T1 breast cancer. METHODS: We reviewed the medical record of 206 T1 breast cancer patients and we divided them into two groups according to the presence or absence of lymph node metastasis. We analyzed the association between ALNM and various clinicopathological predictive factors such as age, tumor size (T1a, T1b, T1c), multiplicity, the histologic grade, the nuclear grade, the presence of lymphovascular invasion (LVI), the estrogen and progesterone receptor status, an HER2/neu expression, the Ki-67 labeling index and the bcl-2 expression. RESULTS: One hundred and thirty-nine were the node negative group (T1N0) and the remaining 67 cases were allotted to the node positive group (T1N1-3). On the univariate analysis, age (p=0.011), LVI (p<0.001), histologic grade (p=0.019), HER2/neu (p<0.005), Ki-67 (p=0.012) and bcl-2 (p=0.026) were the statistically significant predictive factors related to node metastasis. But on the multivariate analysis, LVI (p<0.001) and HER2/neu (p=0.009) were the statistically significant factors related to node metastasis. CONCLUSION: LVI and HER2/neu overexpression were related to the increased incidence of ALNM in T1 breast cancer patients. LVI was the most predictive factor of ALNM.
