Background: Estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and Ki67 are the most useful immunohistochemical biomarkers of invasive breast cancer. The purpose of this study is to investigate the possibility of quantitative parameters derived from dual-energy CT (DECT) to discriminate immunohistochemical biomarkers of invasive breast cancer.
Methods: This prospective study enrolled 120 patients with invasive breast cancer who underwent preoperative contrast-enhanced DECT for staging purposes from June 2019 to January 2020. DECT quantitative parameters, including normalized iodine concentration (NIC), the slope of the spectral Hounsfield unit curve (λ), and the normalized effective atomic number (nZ), were obtained from reconstructed images. DECT quantitative parameters were compared with the expression status, and the correlations with the value of immunohistochemical biomarkers were evaluated. Inter-observer reproducibility analysis was performed to assess the measurement reproducibility of quantitative parameters. The diagnostic performance of the quantitative parameters was analyzed by receiver operating characteristic curve.
Results: The ER-negative group tended to display higher venous phase NIC and nZ compared with the ER-positive group (individually, p = 0.003, 0.011; area under the curve [AUC] of 0.65, 0.60). The PR-negative group demonstrated higher arterial and venous phase NIC compared with the PR-positive group (individually, p = 0.022, 0.005; AUC of 0.63, 0.65). NIC was correlated negatively with the value of ER and PR expression (r = - 0.175 ~ - 0.265, p = 0.002 ~ 0.042). The HER2-positive group tended to display higher venous phase nZ than the HER2-negative group (p = 0.022; AUC of 0.59). The Ki67 high-proliferation group demonstrated higher arterial phase, venous phase NIC and nZ than the Ki67 low-proliferation group (p < 0.001 ~ 0.005; AUC of 0.67 ~ 0.75). Both the NIC and nZ were correlated positively with the value of Ki67 (r = 0.240 ~ 0.490, p < 0.001 ~ 0.014).
Conclusions: NIC and nZ derived from DECT could be used to discriminate expression status and may associate with the value of immunohistochemical biomarkers of invasive breast cancer.
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