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Clinical relevance of H-RAS, K-RAS, and N-RAS mRNA expression in primary breast cancer patients.

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PURPOSE:The RAS family comprises three proto-oncogenes (H-RAS, K-RAS, and N-RAS) and is among the most widely studied of oncogenes. The present study aimed at investigating the clinical relevance of mRNA levels of the three isoforms in a large group of breast cancer patients with a long-term follow-up. METHODS:198 previously untreated patients were enrolled in the study. mRNA levels of K-RAS, H-RAS, and N-RAS were measured using microarray (Affymetrix HG-U133A). RESULTS:Elevated H-RAS levels were found significantly more frequently in patients with larger (p = 0.021) and ER-positive tumors (p = 0.048), while elevated K-RAS levels were associated with nodal positivity (p = 0.001) and HER2-positivity (p = 0.010). Patients with high N-RAS mRNA levels were more likely to be diagnosed with triple-negativity (p < 0.001) and higher grading (p = 0.001). Patients with high K-RAS levels were more likely to show an elevated H-RAS (p = 0.003). After a median follow-up of 183 months, patients with high N-RAS expression had significantly reduced overall survival (OS) compared with patients with low N-RAS (mean: 146.9 vs. 211.0 months; median 169.3 vs. not reached; p = 0.009). In patients with non-metastatic disease at the time of tissue sampling, mean disease-free survival (DFS) was 150.1 months for patients with high N-RAS versus 227.7 months with low N-RAS; median DFS was not reached (p = 0.004). The expression of H-RAS and K-RAS was not associated with DFS/OS. In the multivariable analysis, distant metastasis, HER2 positivity, and elevated N-RAS mRNA levels independently predicted reduced OS, while nodal status, HER2 status, and N-RAS predicted reduced DFS. CONCLUSIONS:Elevated N-RAS mRNA levels predict impaired clinical outcome; hypothetically, further exploration of the RAS signaling pathway might enable identifying potential targeted treatment strategies. The association between high N-RAS levels and the most aggressive among breast cancer subtypes, the triple-negative phenotype, for which targeted approaches are still lacking, underlines the need to further investigate the RAS family.

journal_name

Breast Cancer Res Treat

journal_title

Breast cancer research and treatment

authors

Banys-Paluchowski M,Milde-Langosch K,Fehm T,Witzel I,Oliveira-Ferrer L,Schmalfeldt B,Müller V

doi

10.1007/s10549-019-05474-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-01-01 00:00:00

pages

403-414

issue

eissn

0167-6806

issn

1573-7217

pii

10.1007/s10549-019-05474-8

journal_volume

179

pub_type

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Clinical relevance of H-RAS, K-RAS, and N-RAS mRNA expression in primary breast cancer patients.