Shirman Yelena, Lubovsky Shlomit, Shai Ayelet
Division of Oncology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Breast Cancer (Dove Med Press). 2023 Aug 14;15:605-616. doi: 10.2147/BCTT.S366122. eCollection 2023.
More than 50% of breast cancers are currently defined as "Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) low breast cancer (BC)", with HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) scores of +1 or +2 with a negative fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) test. In most studies that compared the clinical and biological characteristics of HER2-low BC with HER2-negative BC, HER2-low was not associated with unique clinical and molecular characteristics, and it seems that the importance of HER2 in these tumors is being a docking site for the antibody portion of antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). Current pathological methods may underestimate the proportion of BCs that express low levels of HER2 due to analytical limitations and tumor heterogeneity. In this review we summarize and contextualize the most recent literature on HER2-low breast cancers, including clinical and translational studies We also review the challenges of assessing low HER2 expression in BC and discuss the current and future therapeutic landscape for these tumors.
目前,超过50%的乳腺癌被定义为“人表皮生长因子受体2(HER2)低表达乳腺癌(BC)”,其HER2免疫组化(IHC)评分为+1或+2,荧光原位杂交(FISH)检测为阴性。在大多数比较HER2低表达BC与HER2阴性BC临床和生物学特征的研究中,HER2低表达与独特的临床和分子特征无关,而且HER2在这些肿瘤中的重要性似乎在于它是抗体药物偶联物(ADC)抗体部分的对接位点。由于分析局限性和肿瘤异质性,目前的病理方法可能会低估HER2低表达BC的比例。在这篇综述中,我们总结并梳理了关于HER2低表达乳腺癌的最新文献,包括临床和转化研究。我们还回顾了评估BC中HER2低表达的挑战,并讨论了这些肿瘤当前和未来的治疗前景。