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For the purpose of determining the prognostic significance of HER2/neu oncogene in pancreatic and ampullary cancers, 21 pancreatic cancers of ductal origin and six cancers of the ampulla of Vater were studied immunohistochemically using the monoclonal antibody (MAb) CB11, specifically reactive with HER2/neu product. Staining of the epithelium of the normal duct and acini was negative or weakly positive. Moderately and strongly positive reactions indicated the overexpression of this gene, and were found in 10 of 21 (47.6%) pancreatic cancers of ductal origin and in 2 of 6 (33.3%) ampullary adenocarcinomas. Overexpression of HER2/neu was closely and inversely related to the survival of the patients with pancreatic cancer of ductal origin: 19.1 +/- 11.7 mo for those not overexpressing vs 7.3 +/- 3.8 mo for the overexpressors (p < 0.01). Among the pancreatic cancer group, 11 patients underwent cancer resection. The average survival for the 7 with nonoverexpressing cancer was 21.4 +/- 14.3 mo vs 10.5 +/- 3.6 mo for those with overexpressing tumor. Among those not undergoing resection, the average survival for the 4 with nonoverexpressing cancer was 15.0 +/- 3.8 mo as contrasted to 5.2 +/- 2.1 mo for the overexpressors (p < 0.01). Although the number of patients is small, these findings suggest that the overexpression of HER2/neu gene product may be frequently found in pancreatic cancer of ductal origin and may be one of the useful prognostic biomarkers for this cancer.
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