Title |
Cancer stem cell markers are enriched in normal tissue adjacent to triple negative breast cancer and inversely correlated with DNA repair deficiency
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Published in |
Breast Cancer Research, September 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/bcr3471 |
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Authors |
Rachel L Atkinson, Wei T Yang, Daniel G Rosen, Melissa D Landis, Helen Wong, Michael T Lewis, Chad J Creighton, Krystal R Sexton, Sue G Hilsenbeck, Aysegul A Sahin, Abenaa M Brewster, Wendy A Woodward, Jenny C Chang |
Abstract |
We hypothesized that cells present in normal tissue that bear cancer stem cell markers may represent a cancer cell of origin or a microenvironment primed for tumor development, and that their presence may correlate with the clinically defined subtypes of breast cancer that show increased tumorigenicity and stem cell features. methods: Normal tissues sampled at least 5 cm from primary tumors (normal adjacent tissue) were obtained from 61 chemotherapy-naive patients with breast cancer treated with mastectomy. Samples were stained simultaneously with immunofluorescence for CD44/CD49f/CD133/2 stem cell markers. We assessed the association between CD44+CD49f+CD133/2+ staining in normal adjacent tissue and breast cancer receptor subtype (defined by the expression of the estrogen (ER), progesterone (PR), or human epidermal growth factor-2 (Her2) receptors). We also examined the correlation between CD44+CD49f+CD133/2+ immunofluorescence and each of two previously published gene signatures, one derived from stem-cell enriched tissue and one from BRCA mutated tissue expected to have defective DNA repair. |
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