TUMOR BASEMENT-MEMBRANE LAMININ IN ADENOCARCINOMA OF RECTUM - AN IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL STUDY OF BIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL-SIGNIFICANCE
TUMOR BASEMENT-MEMBRANE LAMININ IN ADENOCARCINOMA OF RECTUM - AN IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL STUDY OF BIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL-SIGNIFICANCE
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DOI:
10.1002/ijc.2910370603
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发表时间:
1986-06-15
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
CRITCHLEY, DR
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作者:
FORSTER, SJ;TALBOT, IC;CRITCHLEY, DR
Well-defined basement membrane laminin was seen in 98/158 (62%) rectal adenocarcinomas stained by an immunoperoxidase method. Only 27 (28%) patients with laminin-positive tumors developed distant metastases, compared with 39 (65%) patients with laminin-negative carcinomas. The corrected 5-year survival rates for patients with laminin-positive and laminin-negative tumors were 65% and 23%, respectively. Twenty-five out of 30 (83%) well-differentiated adenocarcinomas and only 3/15 (17%) poorly differentiated tumors contained basement membrane laminin, with moderately differentiated carcinomas showing intermediate laminin status (70/110, 64%, laminin positive). Forty-three of 60 (72%) of laminin-negative tumors had metastasized to regional lymph nodes. These data suggest that laminin may be a marker for differentiation. However, laminin status yields information about tumor behavior which is not confined to stage and grade, and multivariate analysis shows that it is a better indicator of prognosis than tumor grade as assessed by conventional histology. Although laminin status alone is a less useful predictor of prognosis than Dukes'' stage, a patient with a laminin-positive adenocarcinoma of rectum is 2.7 times as likely to survive 5 years than a patient with a laminin-negative tumor. Assessment of laminin status, together with Dukes'' stage is, therefore, commended as a more precise and objective indicator of prognosis than histological degree of differentiation in colorectal carcinoma.