| Literature DB >> 10754464 |
K Kono1, H Naganuma, T Sekikawa, H Amemiya, A Takahashi, H Iizuka, Y Matsumoto.
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Serum HER-2/neu (c-erbB-2) levels in patients with gastric cancer were evaluated by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and tissue levels of HER-2/neu in the same cohort were determined by immunohistochemistry. Nine (16%) of 57 gastric carcinomas had an overexpression of HER-2/neu detected immunohistochemically. Of these 9 patients, 6 had elevated serum HER-2/neu levels, while 45 of 48 tissue samples with negative staining exhibited normal serum HER-2/neu levels. These results indicated that overall accuracy, positive predictive value, and negative predictive values of their serum measurements were 89, 67 and 94%, respectively. Serum levels of HER-2/neu were correlated with tissue overexpression of HER-2/neu in patients with gastric cancer. Copyright 2000 S. Karger AG, BaselEntities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10754464 DOI: 10.1159/000030120
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tumour Biol ISSN: 1010-4283