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Quality of up to 35 years old archival breast cancer tissue in paraffinblocks for estrogen receptor evaluation

Ehinger, Anna LU orcid ; Rydén, Lisa LU orcid ; Bendahl, Pär-Ola LU ; Fernö, Mårten LU and Alkner, Sara LU (2017) 29th European Congress of Pathology In Virchows Archiv 471(Suppl. 1). p.54-54
Abstract
Objective: Estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer (BC) can have
an insidious course with disease-relapse decades after primary surgery.
New analysis performed on archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded(FFPE) tissue are important for disease-management in late BC-relapse
and an important tool in BC-research. However, although loss of immunoreactivity
in tissue slides after sectioning has been shown, little is
known of the preservation of biomarker-expression in FFPE tumourblocks.
We aim to investigate the quality of immunohistochemical
(IHC) ER-evaluation in FFPE-tissue over time (1978–2000).
Method: Tissue-microarrays from a Swedish multicenter cohort of 728
patients with contralateral BC was... (More)
Objective: Estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer (BC) can have
an insidious course with disease-relapse decades after primary surgery.
New analysis performed on archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded(FFPE) tissue are important for disease-management in late BC-relapse
and an important tool in BC-research. However, although loss of immunoreactivity
in tissue slides after sectioning has been shown, little is
known of the preservation of biomarker-expression in FFPE tumourblocks.
We aim to investigate the quality of immunohistochemical
(IHC) ER-evaluation in FFPE-tissue over time (1978–2000).
Method: Tissue-microarrays from a Swedish multicenter cohort of 728
patients with contralateral BC was used for ER IHC-evaluation. BC was
studied in three periods (1958–1985, 1986–1993, 1994–2000), and retrospective
ER IHC-data was correlated to corresponding prospective ER
cytosol-analysis performed on fresh BC-tissue.
Results: The concordance between the original ER cytosol-analysis and
the new IHC was substantial (1978–1985: 82 %, (117/142), Kappa 0.52.
1986–1993: 91 %, (194/213), Kappa 0.72. 1994–2000: 86 %, (187/218),
Kappa 0.61). Discrepancies were mostly found for tumours with ERvalues
close to cutoff for one or both of the methods.
Conclusion: FFPE BC-tissue from the late 70s to millennium shows
preserved ER-antigenicity up to 35 years later. (Less)
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Virchows Archiv
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471
issue
Suppl. 1
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PS-01-016
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Springer
conference name
29th European Congress of Pathology
conference location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
conference dates
2017-09-02
ISSN
1432-2307
DOI
10.1007/s00428-017-2205-0
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Histopathological and biological markers in breast cancer – focused on methodology and contralateral tumors
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English
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  abstract     = {{Objective: Estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer (BC) can have<br/>an insidious course with disease-relapse decades after primary surgery.<br/>New analysis performed on archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded(FFPE) tissue are important for disease-management in late BC-relapse<br/>and an important tool in BC-research. However, although loss of immunoreactivity<br/>in tissue slides after sectioning has been shown, little is<br/>known of the preservation of biomarker-expression in FFPE tumourblocks.<br/>We aim to investigate the quality of immunohistochemical<br/>(IHC) ER-evaluation in FFPE-tissue over time (1978–2000).<br/>Method: Tissue-microarrays from a Swedish multicenter cohort of 728<br/>patients with contralateral BC was used for ER IHC-evaluation. BC was<br/>studied in three periods (1958–1985, 1986–1993, 1994–2000), and retrospective<br/>ER IHC-data was correlated to corresponding prospective ER<br/>cytosol-analysis performed on fresh BC-tissue.<br/>Results: The concordance between the original ER cytosol-analysis and<br/>the new IHC was substantial (1978–1985: 82 %, (117/142), Kappa 0.52.<br/>1986–1993: 91 %, (194/213), Kappa 0.72. 1994–2000: 86 %, (187/218),<br/>Kappa 0.61). Discrepancies were mostly found for tumours with ERvalues<br/>close to cutoff for one or both of the methods.<br/>Conclusion: FFPE BC-tissue from the late 70s to millennium shows<br/>preserved ER-antigenicity up to 35 years later.}},
  author       = {{Ehinger, Anna and Rydén, Lisa and Bendahl, Pär-Ola and Fernö, Mårten and Alkner, Sara}},
  issn         = {{1432-2307}},
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  note         = {{Conference Abstract}},
  number       = {{Suppl. 1}},
  pages        = {{54--54}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Virchows Archiv}},
  title        = {{Quality of up to 35 years old archival breast cancer tissue in paraffinblocks for estrogen receptor evaluation}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00428-017-2205-0}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/s00428-017-2205-0}},
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