| Literature DB >> 21264531 |
Donggen Liu1, Jiehua He, Zhongyu Yuan, Shusen Wang, Roujun Peng, Yanxia Shi, Xiaoyu Teng, Tao Qin.
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The aim of this study was to analyze the prognostic value of EGFR expression for patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Clinical data of these patients were collected and analyzed, and immunohistochemical staining for EGFR was performed on tissue microarrays of operable breast cancer from 287 patients with TNBC, who were treated at Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center from January 1995 to December 2008. EGFR expression was found in 36.2% of the cases with TNBC. A significant correlation was found between EGFR expression and disease-free survival (DFS). Univariated analysis indicated that EGFR expression had a significant prognostic value in TNBC patients, whereas multivariate analysis indicated that EGFR was a significant independent prognostic factor of DFS (P = 0.011) in all patients. Our results suggested that EGFR was an independent prognostic factor of DFS in patients with TNBC. Therefore, EGFR could become a good therapeutic target in the treatment of TNBC.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21264531 DOI: 10.1007/s12032-011-9827-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Oncol ISSN: 1357-0560 Impact factor: 3.064