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Open Access 01.04.2003 | Research article

C-myc, not HER-2/neu, can predict recurrence and mortality of patients with node-negative breast cancer

verfasst von: Claus M Schlotter, Ulf Vogt, Ulrich Bosse, Berthold Mersch, Katja Waβmann

Erschienen in: Breast Cancer Research | Ausgabe 2/2003

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Abstract

Background

At present, node-negative, high-risk breast cancer patients cannot be identified with sufficient accuracy. Consequently, further strong prognostic factors are needed.

Methods

Among 181 node-negative breast cancer (NNBC) patients, c-myc and HER-2/neu oncogenes were identified prospectively using double differential PCR. The possible impact of amplification of those oncogenes on disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival was examined. Furthermore, the possible effects of adjuvant therapies on rate of recurrence and mortality in oncogene-amplified NNBC patients were investigated.

Results

The prevalence rates for amplification of c-myc and HER-2/neu were 21.5% and 30.4%, respectively. On univariate analysis, c-myc-amplified NNBCs were associated with significantly shorter DFS at 36 months after the initial diagnosis (85.3% versus 97.3%). As compared with nonamplified cancers, HER-2/neu-amplified NNBCs did not exhibit any significant differences after 36 months and 95 months. Multivariate analysis indicated that c-myc amplification and tumour size, in contrast to HER-2/neu amplification, oestrogen receptor status, grading and age, were the only independent parameters for DFS. During the period of observation, we found no evidence for an impact of amplification of the oncogenes on overall survival in all cases. With respect to various adjuvant systemic therapies such as chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil; fluorouracil, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide) and endocrine therapy (tamoxifen), no significant differences were identified in oncogene-amplified NNBC patients in terms of DFS and overall survival. However, those c-myc-amplified NNBC patients who did not receive adjuvant systemic therapy exhibited significantly shorter DFS and overall survival as compared with c-myc-nonamplified patients.

Conclusion

C-myc amplification appears to be a strong prognostic marker with which to predict early recurrence in NNBC patients. C-myc-amplified NNBC patients without adjuvant systemic therapy experienced shorter DFS and overall survival.
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Competing interests

None declared.
Abkürzungen
AGCN
average gene copy number
CART
Classification and Regression Trees
CMF
cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil
DFS
disease-free survival
NNBC
node-negative breast cancer
FEC
fluorouracil, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide
OS
overall survival
PCR
poly-merase chain reaction.

Introduction

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women from developed countries. Axillary lymph node status is widely accepted as an important parameter for assessing prognosis in breast cancer patients. However, recurrence and death also occur in patients with node-negative breast cancer (NNBC). A recurrence rate of 30% may be expected during the first 5 years after diagnosis. Prognostic factors such as tumour size, tumour grading, hormone receptor status, age, histology, ploidy and proliferation index are used to define subgroups of high-risk NNBC patients [18]. Despite the availability of these prognostic markers, high-risk NNBC patients cannot be identified with sufficient accuracy. This has led to a search for new and possibly stronger prognostic markers in order to define new subgroups and to facilitate decision-making with respect to appropriate therapy [2, 3, 9].
Numerous reports have described the correlation between amplification of oncogenes and its impact on the course of breast cancer disease [47],[1032]. In a meta-analysis in which 29 studies were evaluated [33], c-myc amplification exhibited significant but weak associations with tumour grade, lymph node metastasis, negative progesterone receptor status and postmenopausal status. Furthermore c-myc amplification was significantly associated with risk for recurrence and death. However, studies in recent years have further shown that the c-myc gene participates in most aspects of cellular function, including replication, growth, metabolism, differentiation and apoptosis [34]. Amplification of the oncogene HER-2/neu has also been shown to be indicative of poor prognosis in breast cancer. Studies revealed that the prognostic effect of HER-2/neu is stronger for survival than for recurrence [16, 19, 20, 22, 27, 29]. Furthermore, increased HER-2/neu levels in primary tumours were associated with a poor response to endocrine therapy [5, 12, 15, 32].
A drawback of many studies of oncogenes in human breast cancer is that usually only one oncogene was evaluated. Based on a series of unselected cases, in the present study we examined the possible influence of the amplification of the oncogenes c-myc and HER-2/neu on disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS). Furthermore we studied whether adjuvant therapies such as chemotherapy and endocrine treatment or no treatment at all had any impact on DFS and OS among oncogene-amplified NNBC patients [13, 8, 9, 32, 3538].

Patients and methods

Among 181 NNBC patients who had undergone breast-conserving therapy or modified mastectomy combined with axillary lymphadenectomy of level 1 and 2 (at least 10 lymph nodes per patient had been removed), c-myc and HER-2/neu oncogenes were assessed prospectively using double differential PCR.
Table 1 shows some clinical, histological and molecular parameters. The median follow-up period was 42 months. Postoperatively, the following therapies were administered in addition to radiotherapy: tamoxifen 20 mg/day for 5 years in 54.7% of patients; and chemotherapy (six cycles of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil [CMF] or four cycles of fluorouracil, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide [FEC]) in 33.7% of patients. Of the NNBC patients, 11.6% did not receive any further systemic therapy.
Table 1
Clinical, histological and molecular parameters of 181 node-negative breast cancer patients
Parameter
Number of patients (%)
Tumour size
 
   T1
118 (65.2)
   T2
54 (29.8)
   T3/4
9 (5.0)
Age (years)
 
   <40
14 (7.7)
   40–55
46 (25.4)
   >55
121 (66.9)
Histopathological grading
 
   G1
5 (2.8)
   G2
105 (58)
   G3
71 (39.2)
ER status
 
   ER negative
64 (35.4)
   ER positive
115 (63.5)
   Unknown
2 (1.1)
PR status
 
   PR negative
66 (36.5)
   PR positive
112 (61.9)
   Unknown
3 (1.7)
Oncogenes
 
   C-myc nonamplified
142 (78.5)
   C-myc amplified
39 (21.5)
HER-2/neu nonamplified
126 (69.6)
HER-2/neu amplified
55 (30.4)
   C-myc and HER-2/neu coamplified
22 (12.2)
ER, oestrogen receptor; PR, progesterone receptor.
After tissue preparation, malignant and normal tissues were kept fresh and transported to the pathologist (U.B.). The pathologist dissected samples for assessment of oncogenes and hormone receptors. A positive receptor status was defined as the presence of more than 10 fmol/mg cytosol protein. The histopathological grading was performed according to the method of Bloom and Richardson [39]. Lymph node sections were stained with haemotoxylin and eosin; immunohistochemical investigations were not performed. The tumour tissues were stored at -70°C and the DNA was isolated using the Fast Prep System (Bio 101 Savant, Savant Instruments, Inc., Holbrook, NY, USA). Less than 200 mg (10–200 mg) tissue was homogenized using FastDNA Kit in the Fast Prep Machine. After preparing the DNA, the content was measured and the isolated DNA was stored at -20°C. General details for the double differential PCR technique, reproducibility and clinical significance were described previously [17, 18, 28, 40]. A cutoff point of more than 2.0 average gene copy number (AGCN) was considered to be positive for HER-2/neu amplification [40]. To calculate the cutoff point for c-myc amplification, all NNBC patients were subjected to Classification and Regression Trees (CART) analysis. A cutoff value of 2.1 AGCN for c-myc oncogene led to the best distinction between patients. Fig. 1 shows the CART analysis for all c-myc values [41].
Results were evaluated using the SPSS system (SPSS GmbH Software, Munich, Germany). The monoparametric survival curves were determined using the Kaplan–Meier method in order to estimate the impacts of intratumoural c-myc and HER-2/neu oncogene amplification on DFS and OS. Statistical deviations were defined using the log-rank test. Recurrence of disease was found at the following locations: local (n = 2), contralateral (n = 1), axilla (n = 2), lung (n = 1), brain (n = 1), liver (n = 1) and skin (n = 1). During the period of observation, 14 patients died. In order to derive relevant information regarding the effects of oncogene amplification on the course of breast cancer disease, the accumulated values were determined after postoperative periods of 36 and 95 months. We applied the multivariate Cox model to enable us to identify independently predictive parameters [42]. Parameters considered included the oncogenes c-myc and HER-2/neu, tumour size, histopathological grading, oestrogen receptor status and age (< 40 or ≥ 40 years). P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results

The prevalence rates for amplification of c-myc and HER-2/neu were 21.5% and 30.4%, respectively. Coamplification was found in 22 patients (12.2%; Table 1). Among those patients with c-myc amplification five recurrences were identified (5/39 [12.8%]), and among those with HER-2/neu amplification two recurrences (2/55 [3.6%]) were identified. Among those patients in whom neither c-myc nor HER-2/neu were amplified four recurrences were found (4/109 [3.6%]), and among those with coamplification of both oncogenes two recurrences (2/22 [9.1%]) were observed. Four patients with c-myc amplification (4/39 [10.3%]) and three patients with HER-2/neu amplification (3/55 [5.5%]) died. Nine patients who lacked amplification of either oncogene (9/109 [8.3%]) and two patients with coamplification (2/22 [9.1%]) died.
Using univariate analysis, c-myc-amplified cancers were associated with a significantly lower DFS of 85.3%, as compared with 97.3% (P = 0.0290) among c-myc-non-amplified breast cancers. Ninety-five months after diagnosis (operation), the estimated DFS of c-myc-amplified cancer patients was only 85.3%, as compared with 95.6% among c-myc-nonamplified patients (P = 0.0079). Comparison of nonamplified cancers with HER-2/neu-amplified cancers did not reveal any significant differences with regard to DFS (Fig. 2).
Multivariate analysis revealed that c-myc amplification and tumour size, in contrast to oestrogen receptor status, grading and age, were the only independent parameters impacting on DFS (Table 2). With regard to OS, no independent parameters were identified among the prognostic markers referred to above.
Table 2
Tumour parameters and disease-free survival in 181 node-negative breast cancer patients in univariate and multivariate analyses
 
DFS after 36 months
DFS after 95 months
Parameter
Univariate P value
Multivariate P value
Univariate P value
Multivariate P value
Tumour size
0.0223*
0.024*
0.0047*
0.002*
c-myc
0.0290*
0.013*
0.0079*
0.004*
HER-2/neu
0.2943
0.252
0.5868
0.166
Oestrogen receptor
0.6797
0.192
0.5363
0.622
Tumour grade
0.0998
0.128
0.0255*
0.663
Age < 40, ≥ 40
0.2330
0.965
0.0920
0.717
*P < 0.05.
Regarding various adjuvant systemic therapies, such as chemotherapy (CMF, FEC) and endocrine therapy (tamoxifen), no significant differences were observed with respect to DFS and OS in c-myc-amplified and HER-2/neu-amplified NNBC patients in comparison with non-amplified patients. However, significantly shorter DFS and OS were observed among c-myc-amplified patients who did not receive systemic adjuvant therapy. No corresponding associations were found among HER-2/neu-amplified NNBC patients as compared with nonamplified patients (Tables 3 and 4).
Table 3
Recurrences and disease-free survival in 181 node-negative breast cancer patients after different adjuvant systemic therapies or no therapy
Subgroup
 
n
Recurrence (n [%])
DFS (P)
Chemotherapy (n = 61)
   c-myc
Amplified
19
3 (15.8)
0.1748
 
Nonamplified
42
2 (4.8)
 
HER-2/neu
Amplified
26
1 (3.8)
0.2552
 
Nonamplified
35
4 (11.4)
 
Endocrine therapy (n= 99)
   c-myc
Amplified
15
1 (6.7)
0.3325
 
Nonamplified
84
2 (2.4)
 
HER-2/neu
Amplified
22
1 (4.5)
0.6641
 
Nonamplified
77
2 (2.6)
 
No therapy (n = 21)
   c-myc
Amplified
5
1 (20.0)
0.0209*
 
Nonamplified
16
0 (0)
 
HER-2/neu
Amplified
7
0 (0)
0.4969
 
Nonamplified
14
1 (7.1)
 
*P < 0.05 (log-rank test). DFS, disease-free survival.
Table 4
Mortality and overall survival in 181 node-negative breast cancer patients after different adjuvant systemic therapies or no therapy
Subgroup
 
n
Mortality (n [%])
OS (P)
Chemotherapy (n = 61)
   c-myc
Amplified
19
1 (5.3)
0.7442
 
Nonamplified
42
3 (7.1)
 
HER-2/neu
Amplified
26
0 (0.0)
0.1042
 
Nonamplified
35
4 (11.4)
 
Endocrine therapy (n= 99)
   c-myc
Amplified
15
1 (6.7)
0.9846
 
Nonamplified
84
6 (7.1)
 
HER-2/neu
Amplified
22
2 (9.1)
0.8307
 
Nonamplified
77
5 (6.5)
 
No therapy (n = 21)
   c-myc
Amplified
5
2 (40.0)
0.0098*
 
Nonamplified
16
1 (6.3)
 
HER-2/neu
Amplified
7
1 (14.3)
0.5649
 
Nonamplified
14
2 (14.3)
 
*P < 0.05 (log-rank test). OS, overall survival.

Discussion

Numerous clinical studies have proved axillary lymph node status to be the dominant factor for prognosis and prediction of DFS and OS in breast cancer patients. The fact of the matter is that even among NNBC patients 25–30% can be expected to progress or even die. The advantage conferred by adjuvant chemotherapy or endocrine therapy was examined in randomized studies [2, 3, 8, 9, 3538]. Because adjuvant therapies may positively impact on outcome in only around 15%, the costs of these therapies make their routine application in all NNBC patients inappropriate [1]. For this reason, predictive factors that accurately define subgroups of NNBC patients who may benefit from adjuvant systemic therapy would be a great advantage.
In the present study the oncogenes c-myc and HER-2/neu were examined with regard to their ability to predict DFS, OS and rate of recurrence, as well as mortality. All patients were randomly selected from one department (Frauenklinik Klinikum Ibbenbueren, Ibbenbueren, Germany). C-myc amplification was identified in 21.5% and HER-2/neu amplification in 30.4%. Berns and coworkers [1214] reported amplification of c-myc in 20% and of HER-2/neu in 24% using a standard southern blot technique. In a selected high-risk cohort of NNBC patients, Roux-Dosseto et al. [26] applied the same method and found prevalence rates for c-myc and HER-2/neu amplification of 25% and 31%, respectively. Those oncogenes were assessed in the present study using a double differential PCR technique [17, 18, 40, 43]. Using this method, Brandt et al. [17] found c-myc to be amplified in 19.7% and HER-2/neu in 16.7% of breast cancers, without consideration of nodal status; coamplification of those oncogenes was present in 7%. In the present study, simultaneous amplification of both oncogenes was observed in 12.2%. As in the present investigation, Roux-Dosseto et al. [26] found that c-myc amplification among NNBC patients was significantly associated with earlier recurrence in univariate and multivariate analyses. However, HER-2/neu-amplified NNBC patients did not have the same outcome. Accordingly, c-myc amplification appears to be an independent prognostic marker, which has greater predictive power than does oestrogen receptor status and tumour grade. As early as 1992, Berns and coworkers [11, 12, 14] reported that patients with c-myc-amplified breast cancers had an unfavourable prognosis.
The first study to mention possible prognostic importance of HER-2/neu gene amplification was reported in 1987 by Slamon et al. [27]. That study included 187 patients with NNBC and node-positive breast cancer; by univariate and multivariate analyses, it revealed that HER-2/neu amplification correlated very closely with shorter DFS and OS in a subgroup of 87 node-positive patients. In 1993, in an analysis of 210 patients, Press et al. [7] found that amplification of HER-2/neu correlated with unfavourable prognosis with respect to DFS.
Attempts by other investigators to confirm these findings were met with various degrees of success. Some studies claimed that HER-2/neu status was an independent predictive factor in the case of breast cancer, whereas other studies could not confirm this [6, 14, 16, 19, 29, 30]. It is certainly of great interest to the clinician that only two out of five studies including more than 100 patients and with a follow-up period of at least 3 years attributed some prognostic value to HER-2/neu amplification among patients with NNBC [6, 7, 16, 19, 28]. Almost all of the studies that dealt with HER-2/neu status and DFS, as well as OS, showed no benefit of this oncogene in the prognosis of NNBC patients. In a survey conducted by Ravdin and Chamness [24], only one [22] of 11 studies concerning immunohistochemical overexpression of HER-2/neu indicated a significant result with respect to OS in multivariate analysis.
In the present study, 19 out of 39 c-myc-amplified patients received chemotherapy, 15 patients received endocrine therapy and five patients received no further therapy. The greatest recurrence rates were noted in the group of patients who received no therapy (20%) and in those who received chemotherapy (16%). The lowest recurrence rate of 7% was seen in patients treated with tamoxifen. All patients who received endocrine therapy (n = 99) were characterized by positive oestrogen and/or progesterone receptor status. The proto-oncogene c-myc can be upregulated by oestrogen stimulation of hormone-dependent breast cancer cells. Endocrine therapy with the antioestrogen tamoxifen can mediate the downregulation of c-myc, culminating in cell cycle arrest [44]. Berns et al. [12] reported that 38% of patients with amplification of c-myc or with coamplification of c-myc and HER-2/neu profited from endocrine therapy. C-myc-amplified patients affected by metastatic disease showed a tendency toward longer DFS with endocrine therapy, as compared with shorter DFS following second-line chemotherapy. However, the minor rate of response after chemotherapy did not correlate with OS. The poorer responses to chemotherapy among patients with c-myc-amplified tumours in the present study (recurrence rate 16%) may be in agreement with experimental findings in erythroleukaemia cells that the degree of cis-platinum resistance correlated directly with the level of c-myc expression [45].
In the present study, 26 out of 55 HER-2/neu-amplified patients received chemotherapy, 22 patients received endocrine therapy and seven patients received no further therapy. In total, low recurrence rates of 3.8%, 4.5% and 0% were found in the above-mentioned therapy groups, respectively (Table 3). Compared with nonamplified patients administered the same therapies, no significant differences with regard to DFS and OS were observed. In contrast to that finding, c-myc-amplified patients not administered adjuvant systemic therapy exhibited a significantly shorter DFS and OS than did nonamplified patients who also received no adjuvant systemic therapy. However, the therapy groups analyzed in the present study are small, and therefore we recommend careful interpretation of the findings.
Higher recurrence rates or poor response to endocrine treatment with tamoxifen in patients with HER-2/neu-amplified hormone receptor positive tumours, as reported in studies in node-positive or metastatic breast cancer [12, 15, 32], were not observed in the present study. Although deregulated HER-2/neu activity can strongly stimulate cytoplasmic signalling pathways, which in turn impinge on c-myc at multiple levels causing its deregulated expression [46], this scenario does not appear to be active in NNBC because the recurrence rate of 22 c-myc and HER-2/neu coamplified patients was only 9%. However, among those patients in whom coamplification of c-myc and HER-2/neu was absent the recurrence rate was lower (4/109 [3.6%]). Differences in the numbers of recurrences and deaths can be accounted for by the fact that some deaths were not related to tumours.

Conclusion

C-myc amplification appears to represent a prognostic marker with which early recurrence may be predicted in NNBC patients. C-myc-amplified NNBC patients who were not administered adjuvant systemic therapy suffer shorter DFS and OS. C-myc could be used together with the tumour-associated protease urokinase-plasminogen activator and its inhibitor (i.e. plasminogen activator inhibitor-1), after further randomized studies have been conducted, to confirm whether NNBC patients should receive adjuvant systemic therapy [4749].

Competing interests

None declared.
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Metadaten
Titel
C-myc, not HER-2/neu, can predict recurrence and mortality of patients with node-negative breast cancer
verfasst von
Claus M Schlotter
Ulf Vogt
Ulrich Bosse
Berthold Mersch
Katja Waβmann
Publikationsdatum
01.04.2003
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
Breast Cancer Research / Ausgabe 2/2003
Elektronische ISSN: 1465-542X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr568

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