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96. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pathologie e. V ...

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Poster: Gynäkopathologie und Mammapathologie I<br />

SA-P-005<br />

HER2 status in breast cancer remains stable with FISH (fluorescence<br />

in situ hybridisation) but is highly variable with IHC<br />

(immunohistochemistry) methodology in view of 10 years<br />

experience<br />

Z . Varga 1 , C . Ramach 2 , B . Padberg 3 , H . Moch 1 , A . Noske 1<br />

1 University Hospital Zurich, Institute of Surgical Pathology, Zürich,<br />

Switzerland, 2 County Hospital St . Gallen, Institute of Pathology, St . Gallen,<br />

Switzerland, 3 Institute of Pathology, County Hospital Graubünden, Chur,<br />

Switzerland<br />

Aims. Gold standard methodology in HER2 status determination in breast<br />

cancer is still a debated issue. Advantage of IHC analysis over timeconsuming<br />

and experience-requiring FISH methodology can be strongly<br />

influenced by pre-analytical differences and interpretational-issues.<br />

Methods. We analysed 6000 consecutive HER2-FISH tests in breast cancer<br />

in 10 years (2001 to 2011) and compared stability of amplification-rate<br />

with immunohistochemical 3+ positivity. Four years long (2001–2004)<br />

FISH tests were performed in all 3+ and 2+ cases and in some of the 1+<br />

and negative (0) cases. For 6 years (2005–2010) HER2 status was determined<br />

with “only FISH” testing. For one year (2011) all cases were tested<br />

with both IHC and FISH.<br />

Results. Between 2001 and 2004, 61% of 3+ IHC was amplified with<br />

FISH (amplification-rate varied from 50%, 67%, 53% and 77%). In 2011,<br />

86% of 3+ IHC cases were amplified with FISH. FISH amplification rate<br />

varied between 15–17% in 2005–2008 and 11–13% in 2009–2011 (due to<br />

modified ASCO criteria of HER2/CEP17 ratio from

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