97601

Correlation between Strength of Estrogen Receptor positivity and Outcome of Adjuvant Tamoxifen Therapy in Breast Cancer Patients

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Oncology & Nuclear Medicine

Abstract

This study aimed to assess the impact of estrogen receptor grade of positivity on the outcome of estrogen receptor positive breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant tamoxifen. This retrospective study included 100 ER-positive breast cancer patients who received adjuvant tamoxifen and followed up in the period from June 2009 until December 2018. Levels of ER staining intensity was measured as the percentage of cells staining positive for ER by immunohistochemistry and graded as mild (1-10%), moderate (11-50%) and high (> 50%). The degree of intensity was correlated disease free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS).. Only one patient had weak ER positivity, 49% was moderate while 50% of cases had strong positivity. Patients with strong ER positive disease had significantly prolonged OS (p=0.018) and superior DFS but of borderline significance (p=0.064) when compared with moderate or weak positivity. There is growing body of evidence supporting the utility of degree of estrogen positivity as prognostic factors hormone receptor positive breast cancer patients.

DOI

10.21608/zumj.2020.31917.1873

Keywords

Estrogen receptor positive, adjuvant tamoxifen, breast cancer

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Khalifa

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Affiliation

Medical Oncology, faculty of medicine, Zagazig university, Egypt

Email

dr.ragab22@yahoo.com

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Abuhammad

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First Name

Nasr

Last Name

Allahloubi

MiddleName

mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

nasrlahlobi@gmail.com

City

cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Salem

Last Name

Salem

MiddleName

Eid

Affiliation

Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

salem.eid@nci.cu.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

mahmoud

MiddleName

ghareeb

Affiliation

Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

moh_ghareeb@yahoo.com

City

cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Abdelrahman

Last Name

Zekri

MiddleName

Nabawy

Affiliation

Department of cancer biology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

ncizekri@yahoo.com

City

cairo

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-

Volume

28

Article Issue

6.2

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37988

Issue Date

2022-11-01

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2020-06-06

Publish Date

2022-11-01

Page Start

303

Page End

310

Print ISSN

1110-1431

Online ISSN

2357-0717

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https://zumj.journals.ekb.eg/article_97601.html

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273

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Zagazig University Medical Journal

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https://zumj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Correlation between Strength of Estrogen Receptor positivity and Outcome of Adjuvant Tamoxifen Therapy in Breast Cancer Patients

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22 Jan 2023