PMID- 24174373 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140514 LR - 20210816 IS - 1097-0215 (Electronic) IS - 0020-7136 (Linking) VI - 134 IP - 10 DP - 2014 May 15 TI - The validation of estrogen receptor 1 mRNA expression as a predictor of outcome in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. PG - 2314-21 LID - 10.1002/ijc.28571 [doi] AB - The prognostic role of estrogen receptors in lung cancer is not validated. Results from patients with early stage non-small lung cancer patients indicate a prognostic role of estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) mRNA expression in these patients. Automated RNA extraction from paraffin and RT-quantitative PCR was used for evaluation of tumoral ESR1 and progesterone receptor (PGR) mRNA expression. The test cohort consisted of 31 patients with advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, treated in a first-line registry trial. For validation, 53 patients from a randomized multicentre first-line study with eligible tumor samples were evaluated. There was no significant correlation of ESR1 expression with clinical characteristics. ESR1 high expression was of significant positive prognostic value in the training set with a median overall survival (OS) of 15.9 versus 6.2 months for high versus low ESR1 expression patients (p = 0.0498, HR 0.39). This could be confirmed in the validation cohort with a median OS of 10.9 versus 5.0 months in ESR1 high versus low patients, respectively (p = 0.0321, HR 0.51). In the multivariate analysis adjusted for histological subtype, gender, age and performance status, ESR1 expression remained an independent prognostic parameter for survival in both cohorts. In contrast to ESR1, PGR expression was not able to separate prognostic groups or to predict outcome significantly (for OS; p = 0.94). Our study shows that ESR1 mRNA as assessed by qPCR represents a reliable method for detecting ESR1 expression in NSCLC and that ESR1 expression is an independent prognostic factor in metastatic NSCLC. CI - (c) 2013 UICC. FAU - Atmaca, Akin AU - Atmaca A AD - Department of Hematology and Oncology, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. FAU - Al-Batran, Salah-Eddin AU - Al-Batran SE FAU - Wirtz, Ralph Markus AU - Wirtz RM FAU - Werner, Dominique AU - Werner D FAU - Zirlik, Sabine AU - Zirlik S FAU - Wiest, Gunther AU - Wiest G FAU - Eschbach, Corinna AU - Eschbach C FAU - Claas, Silke AU - Claas S FAU - Hartmann, Arndt AU - Hartmann A FAU - Ficker, Joachim Hans AU - Ficker JH FAU - Jager, Elke AU - Jager E FAU - Brueckl, Wolfgang Michael AU - Brueckl WM LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Validation Study DEP - 20131114 PL - United States TA - Int J Cancer JT - International journal of cancer JID - 0042124 RN - 0 (ESR1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Estrogen Receptor alpha) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 0 (Receptors, Progesterone) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Aged MH - Aged, 80 and over MH - Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/*genetics MH - Estrogen Receptor alpha/*genetics MH - Female MH - *Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic MH - Humans MH - Kaplan-Meier Estimate MH - Lung Neoplasms/*genetics MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Multivariate Analysis MH - Neoplasm Metastasis MH - Paraffin Embedding/methods MH - Predictive Value of Tests MH - Prognosis MH - RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism MH - Receptors, Progesterone/genetics MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods MH - Time Factors OTO - NOTNLM OT - estrogen receptor 1 OT - metastatic OT - non-small cell lung cancer OT - progesterone receptor EDAT- 2013/11/01 06:00 MHDA- 2014/05/16 06:00 CRDT- 2013/11/01 06:00 PHST- 2013/05/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/09/10 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/10/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/11/01 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/11/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/05/16 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/ijc.28571 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Cancer. 2014 May 15;134(10):2314-21. doi: 10.1002/ijc.28571. Epub 2013 Nov 14.