Salhia, Bodour; Trippel, Mafalda; Pfaltz, Katrin; Cihoric, Nikola; Grogg, André; Lädrach, Claudia; Zlobec, Inti; Tapia, Coya (2015). High tumor budding stratifies breast cancer with metastatic properties. Breast cancer research and treatment, 150(2), pp. 363-371. Springer 10.1007/s10549-015-3333-3
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Tumor budding refers to single or small cluster of tumor cells detached from the main tumor mass. In colon cancer high tumor budding is associated with positive lymph nodes and worse prognosis. Therefore, we investigated the value of tumor budding as a predictive feature of lymph node status in breast cancer (BC). Whole tissue sections from 148 surgical resection specimens (SRS) and 99 matched preoperative core biopsies (CB) with invasive BC of no special type were analyzed on one slide stained with pan-cytokeratin. In SRS, the total number of intratumoral (ITB) and peripheral tumor buds (PTB) in ten high-power fields (HPF) were counted. A bud was defined as a single tumor cell or a cluster of up to five tumor cells. High tumor budding equated to scores averaging >4 tumor buds across 10HPFs. In CB high tumor budding was defined as ≥10 buds/HPF. The results were correlated with pathological parameters. In SRS high PTB stratified BC with lymph node metastases (p ≤ 0.03) and lymphatic invasion (p ≤ 0.015). In CB high tumor budding was significantly (p = 0.0063) associated with venous invasion. Pathologists are able, based on morphology, to categorize BC into a high and low risk groups based in part on lymph node status. This risk assessment can be easily performed during routine diagnostics and it is time and cost effective. These results suggest that high PTB is associated with loco-regional metastasis, highlighting the possibility that this tumor feature may help in therapeutic decision-making.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Radiation Oncology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology > Clinical Pathology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Trippel, Mafalda Arasceli, Pfaltz, Katrin, Cihoric, Nikola, Grogg, André, Zlobec, Inti, Tapia, Coya |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology |
ISSN: |
0167-6806 |
Publisher: |
Springer |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Doris Haefelin |
Date Deposited: |
13 Jul 2015 11:49 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:26 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1007/s10549-015-3333-3 |
PubMed ID: |
25779101 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.70192 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/70192 |
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