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Prognostic Significance of Trophoblastic Cell Surface Protein 2 (Trop2) Expression in Breast Cancer and Relation to Microvascular Density

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Cancer and microbiome

Abstract

Background: The expression of trophoblastic cell surface protein 2 (Trop2) has been correlated with aggressive behavior in multiple malignant neoplasms. Moreover, it is a promising therapeutic target for several malignancies. However, data on the prognostic significance of Trop2 in breast cancer is insufficient. The current work aimed to study the prognostic significance of Trop2 expression in breast cancer and its correlation with microvascular density (MVD). Patients and Methods: Immunohistochemical expression of Trop2 was assessed in 70 cases of breast cancer and its relation to clinicopathological parameters, MVD (as assessed by CD34 immunostaining) and patient's survival was evaluated. Results: High Trop2 expression was detected in 44 cases (62.9%) of the studied cases. The expression of Trop2 was significantly related to tumor size, lymph node stage, lymphovascular invasion, tumor grade and high Ki67 index (P<0.05).   Moreover, the expression of Trop2 was significantly higher in triple-negative breast carcinoma (TNBC) than other molecular subtypes (P=0.015). Additionally, Trop2 expression was significantly correlated to MVD (r= 0.845). Both overall survival and disease-free survival were significantly shorter in the high Trop2 group than low Trop2 group (P=0.008, 0.021), respectively.  Conclusion: Trop2 can be considered as a poor prognostic marker and potential therapeutic target for breast cancer, mainly the triple-negative subtype. Since Trop2 expression was significantly correlated to MVD, we speculate that enhancement of angiogenesis could be one of the mechanisms involved in Trop2 induced tumor invasion and metastasis.

DOI

10.21608/jcbr.2021.68609.1189

Keywords

Keywords: Breast cancer, Triple-negative breast cancer, Trop2, microvascular density

Authors

First Name

Alaa

Last Name

Amer

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University

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alaa.amer@med.tanta.edu.eg

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Tanta

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First Name

Sara

Last Name

Darwish

MiddleName

Abdelrahman

Affiliation

Clinical Oncology &amp; Nuclear Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University

Email

sarazaghloul84@yahoo.com

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First Name

Fatma

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

Mohamed khairy

Affiliation

Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University

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fatma.ibrahim@med.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

Orcid

0000-0003-1725-734X

Volume

5

Article Issue

3

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27855

Issue Date

2021-09-01

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2021-03-19

Publish Date

2021-09-01

Page Start

35

Page End

46

Print ISSN

2682-261X

Online ISSN

2682-2628

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https://jcbr.journals.ekb.eg/article_196551.html

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885

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International Journal of Cancer and Biomedical Research

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22 Jan 2023