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Comparison of evaluation techniques, including digital image analysis, for MYC protein expression by immunohistochemical stain in aggressive B-cell lymphomas.
Human Pathology 2018 August 31
Incorporation of a MYC immunohistochemical stain in the work-up of large B-cell lymphomas has become common in hematopathology practice. Evaluation of this stain can be difficult due to staining heterogeneity and can have inter-observer variability, particularly when performed on entire tumor sections. We identified 87 cases of aggressive B cell lymphoma (34 core needle and 53 excisional biopsies) and compared the following methods of MYC immunohistochemical staining evaluation: the original pathologist's interpretation, a systematic retrospective method of evaluation by manual analysis, and a retrospective method of evaluation by digital image analysis (using scanned slides analyzed via the Aperio Nuclear algorithm). Overall, concordance among these methods was around 80% with kappa statistics showing good agreement. However, nearly one-third of our cases had a percent MYC positivity in the 30% to 50% range and, for these cases, concordance among the various methods was marginal/poor. This suggests limited utility as a prognostic or predictive marker using 40% as a cut-off value. In our series, core biopsy specimens were poor predictors of MYC gene rearrangement and there was no association between MYC immunohistochemical stain and MYC gene gain/amplification. Our retrospective digital image analysis showed strong correlation in MYC percent positivity with our retrospective manual review (correlation coefficient of 0.90) and similar concordance to pathologist interpretation as among pathologists, suggesting digital image analysis is a viable alternative to manual determination of MYC percent positivity. Digital image analysis provides further opportunities for more sophisticated and standardized scoring systems, which may be helpful in future prognostic/predictive studies.
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