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Table 4 Literature review about the prognosis of HER-2 overexpression or amplification in gastric cancer

From: Prognosis significance of HER-2/neu overexpression/amplification in Chinese patients with curatively resected gastric cancer after the ToGA clinical trial

Reference

N (total/survival analysis)

% HER-2/neu+ definition

Prognostic factor

Univariate analysis/association

Multivariate analysis

[12]

131/131

12.2 (FISH+)

Yes/two groups

Not done

[15]

182/182

15.9 (IHC 2+ or 3+)

Yes/two groups

No

Kim MA (2007) [ 18]

248/96

7.7 (FISH+)

Yes/Intestinal type, I stage

Not done

[13]

463/256

9.3 (FISH+)

Yes/Expansive type

Not done

[21]

1414/582 (section), 598/255 (TMA)

12.3 (section), 17 (TMA) (IHC 2+ or 3+)

Yes/Differentiation (W+M)

No (section)/Yes (TMA)

[22]

221/221

15 (FISH+)

Yes/two groups

Not done

[23]

217/217

11 (IHC 3+ )

Yes/two groups and intestinal type

Not done

[24]

1036/1036

6.1 (IHC3+ or IHC2+ and FISH+)

No

No

  1. FISH: fluorescence in situ hybridization; IHC: immunohistochemistry; M: moderately differentiated; TMA: tissue microarray; W: well differentiated.