Glypican-3 Differentiates Intraductal Carcinoma and Paget’s Disease from Other Types of Breast Cancer
<i>Background and Objectives</i>: breast cancer remains the most common health burden affecting females worldwide. Despite developments in breast cancer diagnostic approaches and treatment strategies, the clinical management of metastatic breast cancer remains challenging. Thus, there is...
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| author | Fatemah OFO Alshammari Anas O. Satari Ahmed S. Aljabali Yanal S. Al-mahdy Yasmeen J. Alabdallat Yahya M. Al-sarayra Mohammad A. Alkhojah Abdel rahman M. Alwardat Mansour Haddad Sameeh A. Al-sarayreh Yousef M. Al-saraireh |
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| description | <i>Background and Objectives</i>: breast cancer remains the most common health burden affecting females worldwide. Despite developments in breast cancer diagnostic approaches and treatment strategies, the clinical management of metastatic breast cancer remains challenging. Thus, there is a need to identify new biomarkers and novel drug targets for breast cancer diagnosis and therapy. Recently, aberrant glypican-3 (GPC3) expression in cancers has gained considerable interest in cancer research. The studies, however, have yielded contradictory results about GPC3 expression in breast cancer. Therefore, the current study aims to analyse GPC3 expression across a large panel of different breast cancer subtypes. <i>Materials and Methods</i>: GPC3 expression was immunohistochemically evaluated in 230 breast cancer patients along with eight normal tissues and its associations to clinical and demographic characteristics, as well as immunohistochemical biomarkers for breast cancer. Moreover, a public database consisting of breast cancer patients’ survival data and GPC3 gene expression information was used to assess the prognostic value of GPC3 in the survival of breast cancer patients. <i>Results</i>: GPC3 expression was only characterised in 7.5% of different histological breast cancer subtypes. None of the normal breast tissues displayed GPC3 expression. Interestingly, all cases of Paget’s disease, as well as 42.9% of intraductal and 16.7% of mucinous carcinomas were found to have GPC3 expression, where it was able to significantly discriminate Paget’s disease and intraductal carcinoma from other breast cancer subtypes. Importantly, GPC3 expression was found more often in tumours that tested positive for the expression of hormone receptors and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), indicating more favourable histological subtypes of breast cancer. Consequently, longer relapse-free survival (RFS) was significantly correlated with higher GPC3 mRNA expression. <i>Conclusions</i>: Our study proposes that GPC3 is a promising breast cancer subtype-specific biomarker. Moreover, GPC3 may have the potential to be a molecular target for the development of new therapeutics for specific subtypes of breast cancer. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e8ea7f14baa94ec99b4b21a34787c00f2023-11-30T23:24:09ZengMDPI AGMedicina1010-660X1648-91442022-12-015918610.3390/medicina59010086Glypican-3 Differentiates Intraductal Carcinoma and Paget’s Disease from Other Types of Breast CancerFatemah OFO Alshammari0Anas O. Satari1Ahmed S. Aljabali2Yanal S. Al-mahdy3Yasmeen J. Alabdallat4Yahya M. Al-sarayra5Mohammad A. Alkhojah6Abdel rahman M. Alwardat7Mansour Haddad8Sameeh A. Al-sarayreh9Yousef M. Al-saraireh10Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Shuwaikh, Kuwait City 15432, KuwaitFaculty of Medicine, Mutah University, P.O. Box 7, Al-Karak 61710, JordanFaculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, JordanFaculty of Medicine, Mutah University, P.O. Box 7, Al-Karak 61710, JordanFaculty of Medicine, Hashemite University, Zarqa 13133, JordanAl-Karak Governmental Hospital, Ministry of Health, Al-Karak 11118, JordanAl-Karak Governmental Hospital, Ministry of Health, Al-Karak 11118, JordanDepartment of Internal Medicine, King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid 22110, JordanFaculty of Pharmacy, Yarmouk University, Irbid 21163, JordanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Mutah University, P.O. Box 7, Al-Karak 61710, JordanDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Mutah University, P.O. Box 7, Al-Karak 61710, Jordan<i>Background and Objectives</i>: breast cancer remains the most common health burden affecting females worldwide. Despite developments in breast cancer diagnostic approaches and treatment strategies, the clinical management of metastatic breast cancer remains challenging. Thus, there is a need to identify new biomarkers and novel drug targets for breast cancer diagnosis and therapy. Recently, aberrant glypican-3 (GPC3) expression in cancers has gained considerable interest in cancer research. The studies, however, have yielded contradictory results about GPC3 expression in breast cancer. Therefore, the current study aims to analyse GPC3 expression across a large panel of different breast cancer subtypes. <i>Materials and Methods</i>: GPC3 expression was immunohistochemically evaluated in 230 breast cancer patients along with eight normal tissues and its associations to clinical and demographic characteristics, as well as immunohistochemical biomarkers for breast cancer. Moreover, a public database consisting of breast cancer patients’ survival data and GPC3 gene expression information was used to assess the prognostic value of GPC3 in the survival of breast cancer patients. <i>Results</i>: GPC3 expression was only characterised in 7.5% of different histological breast cancer subtypes. None of the normal breast tissues displayed GPC3 expression. Interestingly, all cases of Paget’s disease, as well as 42.9% of intraductal and 16.7% of mucinous carcinomas were found to have GPC3 expression, where it was able to significantly discriminate Paget’s disease and intraductal carcinoma from other breast cancer subtypes. Importantly, GPC3 expression was found more often in tumours that tested positive for the expression of hormone receptors and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), indicating more favourable histological subtypes of breast cancer. Consequently, longer relapse-free survival (RFS) was significantly correlated with higher GPC3 mRNA expression. <i>Conclusions</i>: Our study proposes that GPC3 is a promising breast cancer subtype-specific biomarker. Moreover, GPC3 may have the potential to be a molecular target for the development of new therapeutics for specific subtypes of breast cancer.https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/59/1/86biomarkerbreast cancerglypican-3immunohistochemistryprognosis |
| spellingShingle | Fatemah OFO Alshammari Anas O. Satari Ahmed S. Aljabali Yanal S. Al-mahdy Yasmeen J. Alabdallat Yahya M. Al-sarayra Mohammad A. Alkhojah Abdel rahman M. Alwardat Mansour Haddad Sameeh A. Al-sarayreh Yousef M. Al-saraireh Glypican-3 Differentiates Intraductal Carcinoma and Paget’s Disease from Other Types of Breast Cancer Medicina biomarker breast cancer glypican-3 immunohistochemistry prognosis |
| title | Glypican-3 Differentiates Intraductal Carcinoma and Paget’s Disease from Other Types of Breast Cancer |
| title_full | Glypican-3 Differentiates Intraductal Carcinoma and Paget’s Disease from Other Types of Breast Cancer |
| title_fullStr | Glypican-3 Differentiates Intraductal Carcinoma and Paget’s Disease from Other Types of Breast Cancer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Glypican-3 Differentiates Intraductal Carcinoma and Paget’s Disease from Other Types of Breast Cancer |
| title_short | Glypican-3 Differentiates Intraductal Carcinoma and Paget’s Disease from Other Types of Breast Cancer |
| title_sort | glypican 3 differentiates intraductal carcinoma and paget s disease from other types of breast cancer |
| topic | biomarker breast cancer glypican-3 immunohistochemistry prognosis |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/59/1/86 |
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