p95HER2 expression in HER2-positive breast cancer with primary resistance

Abstract

p95HER2 isoform is a truncated form of HER2 that retains the C terminal domain but lacks an N terminal trastuzumab binding site. From 2014 to 2016, we assessed the expression of p95HER2 expression in 59 HER2-positive breast cancer patients from FUSCC. The median follow-up was 54 months. In our study, 19 patients (32.2%) were p95HER2 positive. p95HER2-positive expression rate is higher in premenopausal patients than in postmenopausal patients (68.4% vs. 31.6%, P = .026). p95HER2 positive was found more in premenopausal patients and was associated with worse DFS (hazard ratio, 2.21; 95% CI, 1.06–4.61; P = .034), indicating that p95HER2 expression tends to be a more aggressive isoform type of HER2-positive breast cancer.

Keywords

breast cancer / molecular targeted therapy / trastuzumab

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