Overrepresentation of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 positive- and Luminal B breast cancer metastases in the eyes and orbit

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Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer to spread to the choroid and orbit. Depending on a set of prognostic and predictive biomarkers, breast cancer can be divided into at least four distinct subtypes with separate treatment and clinical course. Subjects: Thirty-two patients with metastases to the eye and periocular area diagnosed between 2005 and 2020, of which 11 also had primary tumour tissue available. Expression levels of oestrogen- (ER) and progesterone receptors (PR), Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and the proliferation marker Ki67 were analysed. Results: Twenty-five of 32 patients (78%) had a history of primary breast cancer, whereas the remaining 7 (22%) presented with metastatic disease. Of available metastases, 83% were positive for ER, 37% for PR, 54% for HER2, and 50% for Ki67. Metastases had significantly lower proportions of PR-positive cells than primary tumours, and the distribution of the Luminal A, Luminal B, HER2 enriched and triple-negative subtypes differed between primary tumours and metastases (P = 0.012): Six of 9 patients with a full set of biomarkers on both primary tumours and metastases switched subtype (67%), and 23 of 32 metastases (77%) were of the Luminal B subtype. Conclusions: Nearly 4 in 5 breast cancer metastases in the eyes and orbit are of the Luminal B subtype, and a majority are HER2 positive. The breast cancer subtype frequently switches between primary tumours and metastases. Future studies should evaluate these results in larger cohorts.

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Stålhammar, G., & Grossniklaus, H. E. (2023). Overrepresentation of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 positive- and Luminal B breast cancer metastases in the eyes and orbit. Eye (Basingstoke), 37(12), 2499–2504. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-022-02363-1

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