int‐2 Amplification in breast cancer: Association with decreased survival and relationship to amplification of c‐erbb‐2 and c‐myc
- 12 March 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 53 (5), 774-780
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.2910530512
Abstract
Amplification of the int-2 oncogene was measured in a series of breast tumours and related to amplification of the c-myc and c-erbB-2 oncogenes, histopathological features and relapse-free and overall survival. int-2 was amplified in 11%, c-myc in 20% and c-erbB-2 in 27% of the tumours assessed. int-2 amplification was associated with large tumour size (p < 0.05) and reduced relapse-free (p < 0.05) and overall (p < 0.0005) survival. c-myc amplification was associated with poor tumour differentiation p < 0.05) but had no association with prognosis. c-erbB-2 amplification was associated with low levels of expression of oestrogen receptor mRNA (p < 0.05), poor tumour differentiation (p < 0.05) and shortened relapse-free (p < 0.OOOl) and overall survival (p < 0.0001). This is the first report of an association between amplification of the int-2 oncogene in breast tumours and a significantly increased risk of death from breast cancer, and suggests that int-2 may be useful for identifying breast-cancer patients having a poor prognosis.Keywords
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