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Laboratory of Cancer Genetics, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH [L. B., J. K., O-P. K.], Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4470; Laboratory of Cancer Genetics, Tampere University Hospital, 33521 Tampere, Finland [P. K.]; and Institute for Pathology [P. S., H. M., N. W., M. J. M., G. S.] and Urologic Clinics [T. C. G.], University of Basel, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland
Prostate cancer development and progression is driven by the accumulation of genetic changes, the nature of which remains incompletely understood. To facilitate high-throughput analysis of molecular events taking place in primary, recurrent, and metastatic prostate cancer, we constructed a tissue microarray containing small 0.6-mm cylindrical samples acquired from 371 formalin-fixed blocks, including benign prostatic hyperplasia (n = 32) and primary tumors (n = 223), as well as both locally recurrent tumors (n = 54) and metastases (n = 62) from patients with hormone-refractory disease. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was applied to the analysis of consecutive tissue microarray sections with probes for five different genes. High-level (
3X) amplifications were very rare (<2%) in primary prostate cancers. However, in metastases from patients with hormone-refractory disease, amplification of the androgen receptor gene was seen in 22%, MYC in 11%, and Cyclin-D1 in 5% of the cases. In specimens from locally recurrent tumors, the corresponding percentages were 23, 4, and 8%. ERBB2 and NMYC amplifications were never detected at any stage of prostate cancer progression. In conclusion, FISH to tissue microarray sections enables high-throughput analysis of genetic alterations contributing to cancer development and progression. Our results implicate a role for amplification of androgen receptor in hormonal therapy failure and that of MYC in the metastatic progression of human prostate cancer.
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