Purpose: This study evaluated the association of serum HER2 (sHER2) levels at diagnosis with clinicopathologic parameters and disease free survival (DFS) in operable breast cancer patients according to intrinsic subtype.
Methods: The sHER2 levels were measured using a chemiluminescence immunoassay. The HER2 status in all tumor tissues was determined by immunohistochemistry, and confirmed in equivocal cases by fluorescence in situ.
Results: There were 436 consecutive stage I-III breast cancer patients with sHER2 result at diagnosis between Nov 2004 and Dec 2011. High sHER2 levels (≥ 15 ng/ml) were reported in 52 patients (11.9%) and HER2 overexpression in tumor tissue was observed in 111 patients (25.5%). High sHER2 levels were associated significantly with advanced stage (P < 0.001), mastectomy (P = 0.012), neoadjuvant chemotherapy (P < 0.001), anti-HER2 therapy (P < 0.001) and hormone therapy (P = 0.022). The patients with high sHER2 levels had a worse DFS (P < 0.001). In multivariate analysis, high sHER2 levels were associated significantly with worse DFS (HR = 2.25, 95% CI 1.27-3.99, P = 0.005). High sHER2 levels were associated with worse DFS in the HR+/HER2-, HR+/HER2+ and HR-/HER2+ subtypes (P = 0.043, 0.003 and 0.041, respectively).
Conclusions: These results show that the sHER2 level at diagnosis is a useful prognostic factor in patients with operable breast cancer, especially in the HR+/HER2-, HR+/HER2+ and HR-/HER2+ subtypes.
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