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Table 3 Estimated HER2A patient population size based on HER2A prevalence in 5391 non-breast tumors from TCGA

From: HER2 is not a cancer subtype but rather a pan-cancer event and is highly enriched in AR-driven breast tumors

Cancer

HER2A percentage

Estimated number of new cases in USA, 2015

Estimated number of new HER2A cases

Breast carcinoma

12.3% (106/864)

234190

28805

Stomach adenocarcinoma

8.9% (24/271)

24590

2189

Bladder carcinoma

4.2% (7/168)

74000

3083

Cervical squamous cell carcinoma and uterine carcinosarcoma

4.1% (7/172)

12900

529

Uterine corpus endometrioid carcinoma

3.4% (12/355)

54870

1866

Ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma

2.7% (11/401)

21290

575

Colon adenocarcinoma

2.5% (5/203)

93090

2327

Lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma

2.4% (21/884)

221200

5309

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

2.3% (9/384)

45780

1053

Kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma

1.3% (2/151)

N/A

N/A

Total across non-BC with HER2 amplification (11 cancers)

3.3% (98/2989)

 

16931

Total across all non-BC (23 cancers)

1.8% (98/5391)

  
  1. Estimate of the number of new, annual human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) amplified (HER2A) cancer cases in the USA, based on cancer figures from the American Cancer Society [50] and prevalence of HER2A in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). BC breast cancer, N/A not available