HER2 amplification and clinicopathological characteristics in a large Asian cohort of rare mucinous ovarian cancer

• Main Authors: Koh, Elisa, Pang, Cindy, Soh, Lay-Tin, Wang, Jin, Ho, Tew-Hong, Tay, Sun-Kuie, Lim-Tan, Soo-Kim, Lim, Kiat-Hon, Chia, John Whay-Kuang, Goh, Liang-Kee, Chay, Wen-Yee, Chew, Sung-Hock, Ong, Whee-Sze, Busmanis, Inny, Li, Xinyun, Thung, Sharyl, Ngo, Lynette, Lim, Sheow-Lei, Lim, Yong-Kuei, Chia, Yin-Nin
• Other Authors: de Mello, Ramon Andrade
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biological Sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98414; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18445
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Mucinous epithelial ovarian cancer has a poor prognosis in the advanced stages and responds poorly to conventional chemotherapy. We aim to elucidate the clinicopathological factors and incidence of HER2 expression of this cancer in a large Asian retrospective cohort from Singapore. Of a total of 133...