P-glycoprotein expression: Critical determinant in the response to osteosarcoma chemotherapy
P-glycoprotein expression: Critical determinant in the response to osteosarcoma chemotherapy
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10.1093/jnci/89.22.1706
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1997-11-19
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Ling, V
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作者:
Chan, HSL;Grogan, TM;Ling, V
Background: Fewer than 20% of patients with bone cancer who are treated with surgery alone are cured. Even with the best current treatment, surgery combined with chemotherapy, only 60%-80% of patients with nonmetastatic bone cancer and 10% of patients with metastatic bone cancer are cured. Thus far, the reason for treatment failure in the nonresponding subset has not been identified. It has been hypothesized that P-glycoprotein, which confers multidrug resistance, might be the cause. We sought to determine whether the expression of P-glycoprotein is associated with poor treatment outcome in osteosarcoma. Methods: In a retrospective study, we correlated P-glycoprotein expression with the outcome of conventional chemotherapy in 62 consecutive, clinically staged patients diagnosed as having osteosarcoma between 1980 and 1989. Results: P-glycoprotein was overexpressed in 27 patients but not in another 34 patients. and expression was ambiguous in the sample from one patient. At a median follow-up of 8.9 years, the 34 patients whose tumors did not express P-glycoprotein had significantly better relapse-free rates than the 27 subjects whose tumors expressed the protein (87% versus 0%; P