PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 24   —  8:00 AM   —  Cotillion South


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Section E - PULMONARY PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Douglas Flieder and Joseph Tomashefski



8:00 Mesotheliomas That Express Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) by Immunohistochemistry Fail To Show EGFR Gene Amplification by FISH Analysis (1431)
JH Ritter, C Fuller, A Perry
Washington University, Saint Louis, MO; Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
8:15 Simian Virus 40 DNA Sequences Are Uncommon in Human Malignant Mesotheliomas: A PCR Analysis of 89 Cases Using Paraffin Tissue (1443)
MA Vasef, S Han, K Sheibani
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Western Medical Center, Santa Anna, CA
8:30 SV40 Infection and p16/CDKN2A Deletion as Alternative Mechanisms of p53 and RB Pathway Co-Inactivation in a Series of 65 Mesotheliomas (1417)
F Lopez-Rios, PB Illei, Z Zhao, V Rusch, MF Zakowski, M Ladanyi
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
8:45 E-Cadherin Is a Useful Immunohistochemical (IHC) Marker for Differentiating Benign from Malignant Mesothelial Proliferations (1428)
T Pereira, RS Saad, YL Liu, MY Tung, RJ Landreneau, JF Silverman
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
9:00 Definitive Diagnosis of Pleural Mesothelioma Can Be Established on a Small Panel of Immunohistochemical Markers Using Logic Regression, a Novel Statistical Method (1445)
H Yaziji, H Battifora, CE Bacchi, M McIntosh, AM Gown
PhenoPath Laboratories and Immunocytochemistry Research Institute of Seattle, Seattle, WA; Pathology Consultation Services, Los Angeles, CA; UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
9:15 Metastatic Carcinoma Verses Malignant Mesothelioma: Indeterminate Cases (1400)
TJ Franks, MB Beasley, WD Travis
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC; Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I
11:00 p27 and SKP2 Expression in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers (NSCLC) (1408)
TA Jennings, CE Sheehan, B Stringer, S Sadis, J Brownell, M Read, JS Ross
Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA
11:15 Significance of Survivin Expression in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer(NSCLC): A Tissue Microarray Study (1437)
DF Tan, YC Piao, Q Li, HK Slocum, T Younis, S Wiseman, JJ Brooks, FZ Li, N Ramnath
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
11:30 Tissue Based Molecular Markers Predict Early Metastatic Spread of Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer (1432)
E Sasatomi, L Johnson, D Lomago, J Thompson, PA Swalsky, SD Finkelstein, SA Yousem
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA
11:45 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer : Expression of Multiple Polymorphic Metabolizing Genes, p53, bcl2 and Survival (1405)
AK Haque, A Ginzel, S Khan, W Au, J Xie
UTMB, Galveston, TX