The expression of PTEN is associated with improved prognosis in patients with ampullary adenocarcinoma after pancreaticoduodenectomy.
The expression of PTEN is associated with improved prognosis in patients with ampullary adenocarcinoma after pancreaticoduodenectomy.
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DOI:
10.5858/arpa.2012-0418-oa
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发表时间:
2013-11
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Wang H
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作者:
Shroff S;Overman MJ;Rashid A;Shroff RT;Wang H;Chatterjee D;Katz MH;Lee JE;Wolff RA;Abbruzzese JL;Fleming JB;Wang H
Phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) is one of the most frequently inactivated tumor suppressor genes in many sporadic cancers. Somatic mutations of PTEN occur frequently in many tumors including those of the gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary tracts. Loss of PTEN expression has been shown to be associated with poor prognosis in patients with metastatic colonic adenocarcinoma, gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma, gastric adenocarcinoma and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. To study the expression of PTEN and its significance in ampullary adenocarcinoma (AA). We constructed tissue microarrays using archival tissue from 92 patients (55 males, 37 females) with previously untreated AA who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy at our institution. The age range was 37 to 87 years (median: 63 years). Each tumor was sampled in duplicate with a 1.0 mm punch from representative areas. PTEN expression was evaluated by immunohistochemistry and scored semiquantitatively based on staining intensity and percentage positive tumor cells. Staining results were correlated with clinicopathologic features and survival. Twenty-three of 92 (25.0%) cases were PTEN-negative. Loss of PTEN expression in AA correlated with lymph node metastasis (P= .004), advanced American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage (P= .02) and higher frequency of recurrence (P= .03). Patients whose tumors had loss of PTEN expression had shorter disease-free survival (DFS, mean: 89.0 ± 20.8 months) and overall survival (OS, mean: 93.1±19.1 months) compared to those whose tumors were PTEN-positive (mean DFS: 161.4 ± 11.7 months, P= .02; mean OS: 175.4 ±11.0 months, P = .002 respectively). In multivariate analyses, PTEN expression was a prognostic factor for both DFS and OS independent of AJCC stage, lymph node status, pathologic tumor (pT) stage, and differentiation. Loss of PTEN expression is associated with poor disease-free and overall survival in patients with AA after curative surgery. PTEN expression may be used as a prognostic marker for patients with resected AA.